(cum = with or by. deliramus = we go crazy, we run riot. ea numina = the
gods' will. significamus = we signify, denote, become, announce. It is
when we run riot that we signify the gods. Or By running riot, we do the
will of the gods. Or It is when we run riot that we announce the will of
the gods. Or By going crazy, we signify the will of the gods.) Profuit
ignaris, 12th century poem of sexual invitation written by a churchman
to some young women who are behind the walls of a cloister. The speaker
turns his simple request into an elaborate argument considering the
purposes of love as the guiding principle of nature and the cosmos. --
-- Leonard Barkan,
-- THE GODS MADE FLESH: METAMORPHOSIS AND THE PURSUIT OF PAGANISM
