Liber Peristephanon
Prudentius
Prudentius, Volume 2. Thomson, H. J, editor. London; Cambridge, Mass.: William Heinemann Ltd., Harvard University Press, 1953 (printing).
- ‘exulto talis quod potius venit
- vesanus, atrox, turbidus armiger,
- quam si veniret languidus ac tener
- mollisque ephebus tinctus aromate,
- qui me pudoris funere perderet.
- hic, hic amator iam, fateor, placet:
- ibo inruentis gressibus obviam,
- nec demorabor vota calentia:
- ferrum in papillas omne recepero
- pectusque ad imum vim gladii traham.
- sic nupta Christo transiliam poli
- omnes tenebras aethere celsior.
- aeterne rector, divide ianuas