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Poetry & Literature / surgebat a media cena | | Latin term or phrase: surgebat a media cena | It s about a poet who didn t like singing at parties and would get up and leave whenever it was suggested.
(the scene is set in Medieval England)
...Ubi adpropinquare sibi citharam cernebat, surgebat a media caena et ad suam domum repedabat.
Got up in the middle of a meal - that s what I d put.
(Rather than "from the middle meal")
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Reference information:
... when he saw the harp (cithara) approach him, he rose up from the middle of the feast and (having started forth) retreated to his home
Reference: http://www.illinoismedieval.org/ems/VOL15/heckman.html
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Asker: Thank you, Robert, that s what I feel it means, "from the middle of the feast" ( and having got out set off for home)
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Asker: Many thanks, Robert, sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
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