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an
Saragossa)/
From
paganism
or
speak
of
preface
goes
on
to
tell
theologian
that
we
time
when
didactic,
he
is
willing
to
show
the
world
as
the
circles for which

of
Rome
and
the
empire
mission,
sees
irgil
did.
The
even
more
with
the
exposition
of
really
rhetoric.
Had
theology,
he
would
scarcely
have
begun
the
Apotheosis
with
the
state-
ment
that
he
will
only
Bibliography,
pp.
xvi-xvii.)
X
I
removal
his
atti-
to
diminish
Christian
literature,
and
char-
with his
Liber his
the
seventh
illustrations.
The
first
These
MSS.
and
Bergman
adopts
the
crimine.
err
not,
have
old
age.
What
profitable
many
death
shall
have
wiped
out
these
themes,
O
may
I
fly
forth
in
freedom
from
the
shining
sun
is
which
roam
happily
cock crows,
denied. For
THE DAILY
remains,
while
the
that puff
So
presently
will
the
darkness
in
us,
the
heart
that
knows
its
own
sin,
be
eloquence,
Thou,
O
Holy
long
So may the
wert the
artificem
and
me
under
Himself.
Cun-
ning
craft
snares
birds
in
gins
or
meshes,
or
twigs
smeared
wealth
supplies
their
flight
through
the
unresting
clouds
and
the
winds.
to
which
the
blood-
fed
his jaws
laudem
lingua
Deo
nee
non
et
Seraphin
suum
supremo
5
subnixus
solio
tenet
regitque.
hie
est
flesh, taking the food
have sent.
blackness
offends
paratu
artus
atque
morti
sustenance
image
of
and
their
king
had
exposed
him
to
death,
sensim
labitur
in
to
dost divide
light
from
pollute the holy place.
night, a
unsleeping
people
warriors
take
up
70
sea, impassable when its
instar
fellis
aqua
tristifico
in
lacu
fit
ligni
venia
mel
velut
Atticum.
95
viget.
quam
dat
>vind
with
rainy
ranks
distresses
He
bids
go
up
into
which
we
pass
the
long
spirat de
body
and
lets
no
sense
of
This
is
the
law
appointed
by
God's
command
for
our
frail
una.
49
the
air,
quick
and
lively,
makes
our
minds
unhappy
and
afraid
and
deceives
them
with
a
dark
obscurity.
If
a
man's
stains
of
guilty
con-
duct
are
few
THE DAILY
ROUND, VI
death.
an
error
fills
jur
heart,
evil things
httle, yet
breathe, and
of old,
multitude
of
iins
while
he
enjoyed
the
messenger
made
ready
beforehand,
making
covered
with
rough
tall
ship
in the
preservation.
Back
cries
mountain,
to
see
from
there
jumbled
ruin,
glow of Coan
cluttered his
None
had
any
thought
of
and
sway
before.
For,
the
un-
healthy
bUght
from
our
breasts.
THE DAILY
a
noble
servants, who
since
Thou
of
grass
flourish,
and
65
ponitur
cunctis,
neque
nos
severus
terror
inpellit
; sua
quemque
cogit
velle
potestas.
prosperat
vultu,
velut
hoc
salubre
fidimus
nobis
THE DAILY
ROUND, VIII
to Thee ?
in whitened
God is
quaeque in his
20
et
puer
of
Christ.
coming
the
priest-king
in
Of
wonders
done
in
His
own
person.
earth, heavens,
first
man's
stock
should
not
plunged him deep
is the
foretold,
and
the
30
He
saw
of sweet
youth, the
out
of
truly lives.
the
inrush,
so
unyielding
in
return,
is
unbarred
and
There were
cold
dust
taking
veins
again
and
growing
warm,
the
bones
and
the
company
of
mothers
and
maidens
and
artless
girls
praise
with
and
that is created must
like
the
work
of
a
late
interpolator,
socius
away for Thy
ser\-ants, and
the
heaven.
If
haply
the
earthly
longing
savours
reject
the
nimibing
contagion,
entrusted
to
them
which
followers
takes
because
of earth
us
all
mourn
as
under
a
common
lot,
and
in
sharp
and
bitter
is
THE DAILY
skin tinged with
grace
the renewal of
homini
quod
THE DAILY
be consecrated
bom
of
God.
the
world
set
years should roll
everlasting
glory.
the sky, ruling
blooming
along
the
sceptre-rod
men bring
suffer-
Thunderer's breath,
on
His
kingdom
and

breasts
let
I
suspect
guile
in
all
that
than
the
throat.
O
barbarous
sight
flock slain in
\\'hat boots such
generation
flowed,
twelve-fold
progeny
of
the

version
known
to
Prudentius.
the Word
whereby He
take on
They
assail
the
violenta
tuendo
shall
I
tell,
lest
misguided
3rd
century,
blessed Father,
which cannot
has
manifested
himself
to
our
eyes
man
who
entertained
Christ
when
even
thus
early
figures ;
sumpturus corpus
artus
credite,
nemo
innatus cerni potis est
but
what
is
to
be
seen
in
the
flesh,
light
the
image
of
eyes,
as
the
God
who
lower itself to
with
is
master
of
all
things,
ergo Pater passus ? quid
est,
nee
mundana
inter
radiavit
and
trembles
at
passed
with a
of
God's most assured
*
the
sea,
the
lands,
was then
animal in
of
sight
the
animals,
has
put
the
hfe
of
old
from
its
spirit
assumes
the
good
not
the
Father
flesh
violence
to
*
constituit
hos
God,
turf-
altar
and
incense,
does
not
suppose
there
is
a
supreme
god
who
stands
alone
above
diverse
agencies
obeys.
WTiat
race
is
so
dull
in
speech,
protulit
ex
se,
and
sayer
was
conscious
in
our
eyes
hands
and
recog-
nised
the
and
of
Father, and
of
hell.
By
the temple
ultro
250
ediderit
natumque
sibi
se
fecerit
ipsum.
nil
falsum
aut
mortal
nature
that
the
Christ. This is
Spirit,
who
is
one
Avith
them,
have
part
also
substance of birth,
He
who
is
the
non
fuit,
THE DIVINITY
to
reach
an
understand-
ing of the seeds of first beginnings, how shall it be
given
to
mortal
man
to
seek
But
neither
was
the Son.
Christi,
290
devotus
cippo,
augur,
olli
305
THE DIVINITY
himself.
Thus
does
it
come
about
that
we
believe
Christ
eternal
and revealed
himself and
of
the
figure
auditus stupidas
ut possent
the
Lord
of
the
heavenly
powers,
were once
olive
was
grafted
on
remember
Thou
dost
blaspheme
the
Passover
folly
to
doorposts
song
and
eating
unleavened
dost
represent
dwelling
in
the
it is
of the blood
Hebraeus
pangit
stilus,
Attica
copia
pangit,
linguae.
380
fronte
crucis
titulus
sit
the
law
which
thou
dost
the
cross
let
three
tongues,
as
they
read,
let
Judaea
recognise
and
forth,
all
the
the songs
audiat insanum
cried
out,
Lying
Dodona
Cumae
is
dumb
and
mourns
for
its
dead
oracles,
and
Ammon
returns
no
answer
Capitol
is the
; 460
pontificum
festis
Yet
of
with
cypress
twined
in
of
rites
the
wax
tablet
and
horseman {Iliad,
cedere,
et
incertum
dixit, et
exsanguis conlabitur
ac, velut
pallet
et
adstantes
circumspicit,
ecquis
alumnus
chrismatis
inscripto
signaret
THE DIVINITY
our
secret,
muttered
bowl ; his
fillet
menacing
but threw away
religion
towards
heaven
and
?
poor
creature,
by
whose
vengeance
I
temple
perish-
i
able
work
of
stone.
Justly
pine,
nor
ever
rose
out
stroyed : but
wanders in ever-shifting
denied,
paying
the
price
of
sin.
See
what
has
become
if
the
who
The
dispersion
of
570
credatur
Christus
majesty
character, but
Now
The
ite hinc, dum
Her
maidenhood
and
ready
from heaven,
astrologus,
Cancrum,
620
sidus
et
Hirquinum
laceris
mundi,
babe
Christ
stars.
The
astrologer
felt
his
blood
curdle
row
along
his
side,
that
the
Bull
was
roaring
the
Arrows,
the
Twins
wander
gifts of
suddenly
calm
making
a
feet
on
them
and
bearing
on
the
flood
with
blasts,
the
lord
sinking,
169
g2
sustinuit gressum
anhelat,
pendent,
hoc
limum
iubet
inpositum
de
fonte
lavari
Christus
et
summi
arida
sed
postquam
170
separated
or
his fingers
the
had
made.
corpore
sub
proprio
monstrare
errantibus
aegris.
milibus
ex
multis
paucissima
baptism. The
through
He com-
and
pressing
round
There
is
a
busy
swarm
can magnify a little
THE DIVINITY
brings
to
life
a
block
as God almighty He made
the
thing,
and
then
to
grow
voice recount
slender boundary
sic dicere
roll
and
Who has
been able
Doubtless
He
impregnated
with
moisture,
blasphemers
inferni
petat
ima
poli
barathroque
coquatur?
785
erat
ante,
sed
divinis, et
adorned with qualities
but
the
Father
and
He has
struct
God
in
that
no
time
atque superfusus
sed
fortasse
pars,
credas
come to
know something
the
exhalations
we
the
breath
we
breathe.
At
it
just
squeezes
breath
understand
many
things,
it has
is spiritual
mouth,
originat-
his
the
soul
has
divinity,
show
me
what
means
it
that
it
falls
and
is
destitute
THE DIVINITY
in freedom
house made
of flesh,
creator,
knows
also
fall
under
the
penalty.
It
was
indeed
clean
at
Ssoul
inde
lavatur
naturae
inluvies,
iterumque
renascimur
intus
925
perfusi,
the
tiny
vessels
power
to
breathe,
and
supply
incitements
of
quidquam
simulatum
adsignare
Deo,
cuius
mera
sua
carnea
norit?
quid
body,
with-
out
real
body,
a
Son
of
man
was
to
stirpis ad usque
sabbata
noxis.
the
Father
He
us
deceitfully
counterfeiting
right down to
by
our
gentem,
1010
aerios
suscipit?
aut
quern
it,
and
the
existence
of
us
all
What
fallere
novit.
si
the word of
come
very
resolved
corruptible. Christ
rise
dost
robbed me of,
back,
by
already
fear
of
their
labours,
to
pessimum.
the
who
i
sacrifice. It
correctly.
Marcion,
a
cultivator
light and
5
terrarum
^
have
the
metrically
impossible
alitus.
Arevalo
swung
about
contracts
the eyes
of
the
world
fools
thee
mixture
of
two
contrasted
elements,
good
and
bad,
there
are
two
sorts
of
works
God
who
once
fashioned
the
evil,
and
one
off
from
205
revulso
participem nullum collato foedere
quem genuit.
quid enim
differt generatio
has
lived
number
no
extran-
|
spaces of
of parts,
heat, and it
90
libera
ne
si duo
est?
an
dusky
mantle
has
overcast
the
clear
sky
and
and
to
hold
THE ORIGIN
OF SIN
ity.
Or
if
thou
dost
scorn
to
and
moulding
a
thing
ars
olli
porro giganteis alios luctando lacertis
frangere,
funereos
Candida nigris
many
functional
spirits
recognised
by
the
hand
he
pulls^
cunning
craft
goes
about
a
It was
hinc
works
217
bestia sorde carens, cui
ipsum
ense
sinuous
breast
to
twisting
his
bright
belly
forked
words.
From
no thought
he
that
THE ORIGIN
at their birth,
to sin,-\
its
wide
throat,
since
gold
et
rex,
vellere
saturata
who
They
love
to
fleeces but of
body, courts the tender
335
deprendit
latitare
boni
THE ORIGIN
from
the
and
been able
iron
THE ORIGIN
THE ORIGIN
another side
and
qui
445
damnatos
which
in
artless
ignorance,
of
Mammon
noose, already
the
Philistines.
Cf.
Jordan,
which
stayed
its
waters,*
and
abandons
the
stone
that
stone is
duly set
and girds him-
his
and
queen
of
Tyre
nor
Parthian
that
dwells
by
great
Euphrates
all
that
the
sun
looks
in
frena
potestatum
variarum
sustinet
ac
sub
principe
Belia
rectoribus
horret
iniquis.
520
its body
pure
spirit
j
and
makes
passage of its flying
tranquil,
active,
being weighed down under its
burden and
given over
aut
de
concubitu
ore
sitit
patulo
\\ith
the
sword.
If
the viper
brought
forth
through
her
flesh.
does
her
heat
a mate
her
inpletur vitiis perituro mixta
union with
the flesh
of
iniquity?
marriage,
and
called
to
the
darkness, while
forth
by
a
virgin's
body,
and
tooth with
any
act.
There-
servatorque
peccantumque
obitus
redivivam
labi hominis,
argumentum
pulsibus
et
totum
venis
250
THE ORIGIN
a
part
though
men
I
prudens
eligit
atque
THE ORIGIN
way
of
life
by
God's
goodness
own
•will
but
he,
oculosque co-
herself alone.
She stiffened
loss to
lost.
resolution
Lot
on
the
765
Loth
remissum
alterutram
fire
and
condemn
them
under
the
judgment
of
Christ.
To
mox
ubi
iam
caelo
revolandum,
pars
petit
aethram
815
the hand
brothers
the other,
same
nature,
minous
time.
Death
and
free
from
every
damnatas
iustasque
animas
concurrere
visus
conspicuos
meritasque
vices
per
magna
notari
865
intervalla,
polus
medio
quae
dividit
orbe.
errat,
quisque
animas
THE ORIGIN
OF SIN
and
comforts
her
with plain-
quench
the
its
of
their
outlook.
From
souls'
eyes
shaded
with
have
not
a
small
pierce
the
mists
and
265
k2
mittit.
segregat ipsa
;
For
our sight, to be sure, all colours are lost in the
night and all
to
recognise
the
separate
itself
before
death
nor
THE ORIGIN
te,
935
quamlibet
indignum
venia
faciamque
loquarque.
confiteor
minaci
terribilem,
si
nulla
ministri
his
captive,
spotted
syllable
(for
old age, teaching
altar he
and whose
battling
valorously,
has
overcome
^\'ith
great
slaughter
the
monsters
in
to
which
by
the
vis
pessimorum
45
senis
revisit
hospitis
mapalia,
et
50
quam
nostra
recto
vita
resculpat
pede
God,
drives
off
in
flight
those
under
foot.
He
had
chafed.
keep a descendant
God,
himself
5
gathering
Father
unutterable
and
will enter
has long
cross,
while
IH
are
elisos
body
shoulders
bare,
heart
and
un-
death. Leaps
p>t.i«*-
stone
the
inflamed
fiend's
hand
and
the
cursed
whore's
and
the
captain's
THE FIGHT
flesh,
and
a
raised at
gemuisse
dolorem.
120
sic
ait,

So spake Chastity,
THE FIGHT
violence. And when
in
is beside
effect
she
picks
up
our
rule,
to
escorted
as
he
thought
all
presses
through
the
massed
legions
champing. This way
armed,
that
to
take
the
sword
against
a
race
of
proud
distinction,
?
bom
on
the
good
callida
forte
Fraus
interciso
exclaiming
she
with treacherous
pit that
revealed
the
297
1.2
auras,
dixit,
et
and
she
she struck
surrender,
wishing
to
be
the
slaves
of
Indulgence,
to
bear
the
yoke
of
a
debauched
mistress,
and
be
governed
by
the
loose
law
of
the
pot-house.
The
stout-hearted
Virtue
Soberness
ut
tener
incessus
vestigia
syrmate
verrat
sericaque
infractis
conviolasse
favo
Jonathan
with
carried

cymbala
proiciunt
many
cups,
says
the
maiden,
flight.
Pale
abandoning
his
bow
where
it
has
shpped
from
his
shoulder,
damna
iaeent,
crinalis
his
se
Sobrietas
et
conivente oculos
465
Eumenides
her
endure
the
way
and
that
sand.
ferire,
de
est,
ausa
semper
fida
comes,
clipeum
obiectasset
et
atrae
hostis
ab
incursu
force
unconquerable
inflexibly
scorn
money
or
piece
of
land
the
the
the
to
appearance.
destined
singly
no
longer
mistress
be-
neath
the
chin,
squeeze
the
gorge
and
wrest
the
Ufe
away
foot,
stabs
her
through
the
ribs
rests
Christ,
dost
thou
fear
heavenly
teaching
the
food
to
Israel,
looking
rhythmic
timbrels
to
celebrate
the
marvellous
work
of
the
Almighty,
a
work
to
be
woeful
Evil,
to
spite
and
mucronem
laevo
THE FIGHT
point, and the
where the
the \actors
army
was
driven
off,
Discord
had
of

our
700
ferrata
de
veste
cruor,
mox
et
pavor
hostem
comminus
adstantem
prodit
albens.
circumstat
propere
strictis
mucronibus
omnis
705
and white face
And she, all pale
with upsetting fear, says
My
teacher
exstruitur
media
liber inofFenso
sensibus in
elevated
ground,
a
will between
means
faltering
abroad.
Therefore
be
on
the
watch,
my
discordant thought among
in us
from the
occasion of
the
eternal
Spirit
and
now ended and
to Him if thy soul is angry and hates thy
brother
its
tresses
of
keep some
peace
that
up
with
pride,
it
feels
no
jealous
during
anger.
Whosoever
would
worship
God
acceptably
Yet God
feathers, when
The wolf,
in
while
he
her
wounds.
She
One
task
alone,
ye
cap-
tains,
now
that
war
is
over,
remains
for
a
noble
effort
set
ianua
panditur alta
built
and
an
altar
set
up
in
an
house
of the
holy
worship.
in
the
great
work,
sides shall square
chill time
of north
its
And more,
with
colour
from
the
light
of
its
neighbour
jacinth;
for
as
it
chanced
that
stone
green
light
rolls
out
addit. 865
huius
forma
fuit
sceptri
Qth-century MS.
crane
was
ice-like
sovereign's hands
xiper's
venom
dried
up
and
to
bum.
of
the
the poison
secret, nor
Salvator generis
A REPLY
safety in the calm
idolatry,
the
all
too
warm
caress
can hurt turned
;
*
dost
grant
thy
grace
to
all
has
fallen
he breathes impiety,
salutem
5
temptat
Romulidum,
behind,
now
the
to
iustitia
regnante
45
the stronghold
received
the
diadem,
our
fore-
fathers
shall beat
out a
cur\-ed
tool of
reign of Saturn
pessulus
artis
65
firmarat
cuneis,
per
tectum
dives
amator
70
pelice
iam
puero
magis
indignante
sorore.
multiplices
variosque
dolos
texebat,
ut
ilium,
75
the
and
that
with
his
unheard-of
Aeneid
V,
255);
or
more debased,
to
that
he
was
skilled
both
ways
and
armed
his
life
with
two
et
Indis,
suceessu
dum
victor
ovans
lascivit
et
aurum

for him.
was one
priests,
where
it
et
omnis,
parva
amor
aut
spes
adcumulant,
with the Falernian
merits
passion.
Heated
with
drink,
he
takes
up
this
lady-love
and
bids
crown
to
grace
her
head.
And
next
Fear
or
love
dishonouring
of
young
women,
pledgings
not a
hos
habuere
deos
Ancus,
Numitor,
195
et
coluit
quidquid
to
the
Tarquins.)
peak
of
Eryx,**
;
''
bowed
shuddering
before
(Dionysus) reached Rome
to
II, 166.
gods,
and
the
Sacred
Way
goddess, the name of the place is reckoned as a
divinity, the temples of the City
and
stood
{Aeneid
taken that day.
heavens.
There
stands
Alcides,
all
stiff
in
tawny
bronze,
he
who
was
Arcadia's
twin
brought
the
news
of
great
v.'iih
child
and
thy
Venuses.
Nor
haec
Napaeas.
ipse
ignis,
nostrum
factus
qui
et,
quod
nemo
negat,
mundo
caeloque
minorem.
area
maior
quamvis
*
heavens
circle,
and
that
the
vast
star's
fires
placatur
vaccae
sterilis
cervice
resecta,
376
I
I
night
on
its
returning
path.
It
cannot
divert
its
torch
right or
;
made
the
She
is
377
figuras.
quaeque
feras
perimat
letali
vulnere
mentes,
375
hell
there
is
a
plunges your mind beneath the
ground
on
the
ever
enshrouds
the
spectators,
379
antris
ministrum
interitus,
speciosa
hominum
cui
funera
donet.
incassum
arguere
iam
sanctius ara
counted
divine,
when
your
fathers'
tibi
subiacet
of gold.
the shape
an apparition
air.
Leave
these
heathen
divinities
to
to
superstition
thy
barous, brutish
peoples who
that
made
Constantine
invincible
when
he
crossed
the
Alps
as
a
aut si nupta
475
morte
maritalis
dabat
indignatio
poenas.
principis
the sky and
hands
of
some
taken away, he
saw
directing
in jewelled gold,
to
the
super-
scription
which
the
avenging
army
bore,
the
wor-
(=CHR) representing
proved
are
unworthy
call of
and
blush
for
her
been
wet
540
profitable
a
great
emperor
in
our
time
planned
and
the
very
vitals
of
thv
bloodless
Wctories,
and
the
world's
noblest
ornaments,
adiectus
si
formam
higher
dispensus
ab
altis,
aut
\^aticano
tumulum
ardua
rettulerint
fastorumque
arce
potiti
595
annales

with
hasten in great
realm
beyond
the
lofty
stars
of
the
great
firmament
that they wander
ipse
curious
way,
but
seems
to
be
that
a
majority
was
required,
and
the
Christians
now
have
it.
Augustus
{prisco
pagan
parties
in
the
number, who
have lost
wishes oppose them
No room
their
wiW
all
are
convinced
by
reason
the
coils
of
paganism
630
TuUius has
non
vereor
ne
mourning
for
her
lost
of
ivory,
or
till
the
shining
prongs,
and
would
nor
Greenwood. 2
Flen'y : Lettebs.
Prcdentius. H.
revised.)
Seneca : Tbagedies.
F. J.
3rd Imp.,
Vol. II.
Athenaeus
: Deipxosophistae.
C.
B.
Gulick.

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