tene, o vexatrix hominum, potuisse resumptis viribus extincti capitis recalescere flatu, Assyrium postquam thalamum cervix Olofernis caesa cupidineo madefactum sanguine lavit, gemmantemque torum moechi ducis asperaIudith sprevit et incestos conpescuit ense furores, famosum mulier referens ex hoste tropaeum non trepidante manu vindex mea caelitusaudax! at fortasse parum fortis matrona sub umbra legis adhuc pugnans, dum tempora nostra figurat, vera quibus virtus terrena in corpora fluxit grande per infirmos caput excisura ministros.
Shalt thou, O troubler of mankind, have been able to resume thy strength and grow warm again with the breath of life that was extinguished in thee, after the severed head of Holofernes soaked his Assyrian chamber with his lustful blood, and the unbending Judith, spurning the lecherous captains jewelled couch, checked his unclean passion with the sword, and woman as she was, won a famous victory over the foe with no trembling hand, maintaining my cause with boldness heaven-inspired? But perhaps a woman still fighting under the shade of the law had not force enough, though in so doing she prefigured our times, in which the real power has passed into earthly bodies to sever the great head by the hands of feeble agents?
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