Psychomachia
Prudentius
Prudentius, Volume 1. Thomson, H. J, editor. London; Cambridge, Mass.: William Heinemann Ltd., Harvard University Press, 1949 (printing).
- caeleste ingenium post gaudia candida taetro
- cessisse stomacho! fervent bella horrida, fervent
- ossibus inclusa, fremit et discordibus armis
- non simplex natura hominis; nam viscera limo
- effigiata premunt animam, contra ille sereno
- editus adflatu nigrantis carcere cordis
- aestuat, et sordes arta inter vincla recusat,
- spiritibus pugnant variis lux atque tenebrae,
- distantesque animat duplex substantia vires,
- donec praesidio Christus Deus adsit et omnes
- virtutum gemmas conponat sede piata,
- atque, ubi peccatum regnaverat, aurea templi
- atria constituens texat spectamine morum
- ornamenta animae, quibus oblectata decoro
- aeternum solio dives Sapientia regnet.