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Need help with Latin

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-31 19:15

I just wanted to bastardize Hildegard von Bingen's "O Viridissima Virga". Make it distinctly anti-Christian.
>O viridissima virga ave, que in ventoso flabro sciscitationis sanctorum prodisti - - - Hail, o greenest branch, sprung forth in the airy breezes of the prayers of the saints
>Cum venit tempus quod fluoristi in ramis tuis - - - so the time has come that your prays have flourished
>Ave, ave sit tibi quia calor solis in te sudavit sicut odor balsami - - - Hail, hail to you because the heat of the sun has exuded from you like the aroma of balm
>Nam in te floruit pulcher flos qui odorem dedit omnibus aromatibus que arida erant - - - For the beautiful flower sprang from you which gave all parched perfumes their aroma
>Et illa apparuerunt omnia in veriditate plena - - - And they have radiated anew in their full freshness
>Unde celi dederunt rorem super gramen et omnis terra leta facta est quoniam viscera ipsius frumentun protulerunt et quoniam volucres celi nidos in ipsa habuerunt - - - Whence the skies bestowed dew upon the pasture and all the Earth was made joyful because her womb brought forth corn and because the birds of the firmament built their nests in her
I wanted to keep the metaphor of a plant growing fruit, but turn it into something much more negative, like changing "sprays" in the second verse to lies, just small changes that completely alter the message. The problem is, I don't know Latin

Name: Anonymous 2013-03-31 19:29

Maybe something like

"Hail, o foulest king, sprung forth
in the rotten breezes of the prayers of the weak

so the time has come that your lies have flourished

Hail, hail to you because the heat of the fire exudes
from you like the aroma of decay

For the deceitful words sprang from you which
gave all poised murderers their excuse

And they have reveled anew in their full horror

Whence the skies bestowed blood upon the pasture and all
the Earth was made fearful because her womb
brought forth hatred and because the false prophets of the firmament
sowed their crop in her"

Anyone able and willing to put that back into Latin?

Name: Anonymous 2013-08-28 6:11

i just wanted one sentence translated from english to latin:

live life on your own terms.

only that. all the possible translators in the world will give different translations, so i'm confused.

Don't change these.
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