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War rages, horrid war
Even in our bones; our double nature sounds
With armèd discord.
Even in our bones; our double nature sounds
With armèd discord.
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348 – c. 413) was a Roman Christian poet. His most influential poem, the Psychomachia is an allegory of the inner struggle between vice and virtue.
Quotes
- Fervent bella horrida, fervent
ossibus inclusa fremit et discordibus armis
non simplex natura hominis.- War rages, horrid war
Even in our bones; our double nature sounds
With armèd discord. - Psychomachia, line 902; translation from C. S. Lewis The Allegory of Love (London: Oxford University Press, [1936] 1975) p. 72.
- War rages, horrid war
- Nunc suscipe, terra, fovendum,
gremioque hunc concipe molli.
Hominis tibi membra sequestro,
generosa et fragmina credo.- Take him, earth, for cherishing,
To thy tender breast receive him.
Body of a man I bring thee,
Noble even in its ruin. - "Hymnus X: Ad Exequias Defuncti", line 125 ; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (London: Constable, [1929] 1943) p. 45.
- Take him, earth, for cherishing,
- Illic, precor, optime ductor,
famulam tibi praecipe mentem,
genitali in sede sacrari
quam liquerat exsul et errans.- Take, O take him, mighty Leader,
Take again thy servant's soul,
To the house from which he wandered
Exiled, erring, long ago. - "Hymnus X: Ad Exequias Defuncti", line 165; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (London: Constable, [1929] 1943) p. 47.
- Take, O take him, mighty Leader,
External links
- Profile in The Catholic Encyclopedia
- The Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Works by Prudentius at Project Gutenberg - Latin and English of the Cathemerinon
- Prudentius at The Latin Library
- Liber peristephanon - Latin text.
- Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Latina with analytical indexes
- Prudentius framework of personality used to validate psychometric test
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