Translation of Anthologia Latina 749–751 by Ɔ. Martiana.
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Moon, the beauty of the world, great heaven’s greatest part,
Moon, companion of the Sun, wandering splendor, fire and moisture,
Moon, parent of the months, returning to life with plentiful offspring!
You steer the yoked team in glittering heaven behind the Sun;
When you return, Day gathers up your brother’s hours,
Father Oceanus gazes after you as heaven is renewed,
The earth breathes out for you, you bind Tartarus in chains,
You renew the solstice with the sistrum, you shake the cymbal plates,
Isis, Moon, †choris†, Caelestis, Juno, Cybele!
On successive days under the month, you drive your light,
And you renew again the lights of each successive month.
Now you are smaller after you become full, now you return in full
After you are smaller; you always grow after your disk wanes.
Be present here, and be well-inclined, goddess, towards our prayers,
And allow the bullocks joined to your light-bearing yokes to rest,
So that Fortune may spin her wheel the way that prosperity runs.
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