Psychomachia
Prudentius
Prudentius, Volume 1. Thomson, H. J, editor. London; Cambridge, Mass.: William Heinemann Ltd., Harvard University Press, 1949 (printing).
- prima petit campum dubia sub sorte duelli
- pugnatura Fides, agresti turbida cultu,
- nuda umeros, intonsa comas, exerta lacertos;
- namque repentinus laudis calor ad nova fervens
- proelia nec telis meminit nec tegmine cingi,
- pectore sed fidens valido membrisque refectis
- provocat insani frangenda pericula belli,
- ecce lacessentem conlatis viribus audet
- prima ferire Fidem veterum Cultura Deorum,
- illa hostile caput phalerataque tempora vittis
- altior insurgens labefactat, et ora cruore
- de pecudum satiata solo adplicat et pede calcat
- elisos in morte oculos, animamque malignam
- fracta intercepti commercia gutturis artant,
- difficilemque obitum suspiria longa fatigant.
- exultat victrix legio, quam mille coactam
- martyribus regina Fides animarat in hostem,
- nunc fortes socios parta pro laude coronat
- floribus ardentique iubet vestirier ostro.
- exim gramineo in campo concurrere prompta
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