Apotheosis

Prudentius

Prudentius, Volume 1. Thomson, H. J, editor. London; Cambridge, Mass.: William Heinemann Ltd., Harvard University Press, 1949 (printing).

  1. nescio quis certe subrepsit Christicolarum
  2. hic iuvenum; genus hoc hominum tremit infula et omne
  3. pulvinar divum, lotus procul absit et unctus;
  4. pulchra reformatis redeat Proserpina sacris.’
  5. dixit, et exsanguis conlabitur ac, velut ipsum
  6. cerneret exerto minitantem fulmine Christum,
  7. ipse quoque exanimis posito diademate princeps
  8. pallet et adstantes circumspicit, ecquis alumnus
  9. chrismatis inscripto signaret tempora ligno,
  10. qui Zoroastreos turbasset fronte susurros.
  11. armiger e cuneo puerorum flavicomantum,
  12. purpurei custos lateris, deprenditur unus,