in qua palude indesinenter rerum omnium lege perversa muri cadunt aquae stant, turres fluunt naves sedent, aegri deambulant medici iacent, algent balnea domicilia conflagrant, sitiunt vivi natant sepulti, vigilant fures dormiunt potestates faenerantur clerici Syri psallunt, negotiatores militant milites negotiantur, student pilae senes aleae iuvenes, armis eunuchi litteris foederati.
In that marshland the laws of nature are continually turned upside down; the walls fall and the waters stand, towers float and ships are grounded, the sick promenade and the physicians lie abed, the baths freeze and the houses burn, the living go thirsty and the buried swim, thieves keep vigil and authorities sleep, clerics practise usury and Syrians sing psalms, business men go soldiering and soldiers do business, the old go in for ball-playing and the young for dicing, the eunuchs for arms and the federates for culture.
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