{"ausonius-oratio/1":{"o":"Omnipotens, solo mentis mihi cognite cultu, / Ignorate malis, et nulli ignote piorum, / Principio, extremoque carens : antiquior aevo. / Quod fuit, aut veniet : cujus formamque modumque / Nec mens complecti poterit, nec lingua profari : / Cernere quem solus coramque audire jubentem / Fas habet, et patriam propter considere dextram : / Ipse opifex rerum, rebus causa ipsa creandis, / Ipse Dei Verbum, Verbum Deus, anticipator / Mundi, quem facturus erat : generatus in illo / Tempore, quo tempus nondum fuit : editus ante, / Quam jubar, et rutilus coelum illustraret Eous : / Quo sine nil actum : per quem facta omnia : cujus / In coelo solium; cui subdita terra sedenti, / Et mare, et obscurae chaos insuperabile noctis : / Irrequies, cuncta ipse movens, vegetator inertum : / Non genito genitore Deus, qui fraude superbi / Offensus populi, gentes in regna vocavit, / Stirpis adoptivae meliore propage colendus : / Cernere quem licuit proavis : quo numine viso, / Et patrem vidisse datum : contagia nostra / Qui tulit : et diri passus ludibria lethi, / Esse iter aeternae docuit remeabile vitae :","t":"Almighty, known to me by the worship of the mind alone,\nunknown to the wicked, and to none of the devout unknown,\nwithout beginning or end, older than all time\nthat has been or will come; whose form and measure\nneither mind can grasp nor tongue declare;\nwhom he alone may see, and hear face to face as you command,\nwho has the right, and sits beside his Father’s right hand:\nhe himself the maker of things, himself the cause of things’ creation,\nhe himself the Word of God, the Word who is God, who went before\nthe world he was to make; begotten in that\ntime when there was not yet time; brought forth before\nthe sun’s radiance and the ruddy Morning Star lit up the sky;\nwithout whom nothing was done; through whom all things were made; whose\nthrone is in heaven; to whom, as he sits, the earth is subject,\nand the sea, and the unconquerable chaos of dark night;\nnever resting, himself moving all things, quickener of what is inert;\nGod from an unbegotten Begetter, who, offended by the deceit\nof a proud people, called the nations into the kingdom,\nto be worshipped by the better offspring of an adopted stock;\nwhom our forefathers were allowed to see; and, his divinity seen,\nit was given them to have seen the Father too; who bore\nour contagions, and, having suffered the mockery of a dreadful death,\ntaught that there is a way back to eternal life:","f":"Ausonius, <i>Eph. 3</i> 1 (PL 19:839–840; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ausonius-oratio/1)."},"ausonius-oratio/24":{"o":"Nec solam remeare animam, sed corpore toto / Coelestes intrare plagas, et inane sepulcri / Arcanum vacuis adopertum linquere terris. / Nate patris summi, nostroque salutifer aevo, / Virtutes patrias genitor cui tradidit omnes, / Nil ex invidia retinens, plenusque datorum, / Pande viam precibus, patriasque haec perfer ad aures. / Da, Pater, invictam contra omnia crimina mentem, / Vipereumque nefas nocituri averte veneni. / Sit satis, antiquam serpens quod perdidit Evam, / Deceptumque adjunxit Adam : nos sera nepotum / Semina, veridicis aetas praedicta prophetis, / Vitemus laqueos, quos lethifer implicat anguis. / Pande viam, quae me post vincula corporis aegri / In sublime ferat : puri qua lactea coeli / Semita ventosae superat vaga nubila Lunae. / Qua proceres abiere pii, quaque integer olim / Raptus quadrijugo penetrat super aethera curru / Helias, et solido cum corpore praevius Enoch. / Da, Pater, aeterni speratam luminis auram :","t":"and that not the soul alone returns, but with the whole body\nenters the regions of heaven, and leaves the empty secret of the tomb\nclosed over in the abandoned earth.\nSon of the highest Father, bringer of salvation to our age,\nto whom the Begetter handed on all his Father’s powers,\nholding nothing back from envy, and you are full of what was given,\nopen the way for my prayers, and carry them to your Father’s ears.\nGrant, Father, a mind unconquered against all sins,\nand turn away the viper’s wickedness and its harmful venom.\nLet it be enough that the serpent destroyed Eve of old\nand joined deceived Adam to her: may we, the late seed\nof their descendants, the age foretold by truth-telling prophets,\navoid the snares that the death-bringing snake entwines.\nOpen the way that, after the bonds of the sick body,\nmay carry me on high, where the milky path of the pure sky\nrises above the wandering clouds of the windy Moon,\nwhere the devout patriarchs departed, and where once, whole,\ncaught up in a four-horse chariot, Elijah passed above the ether,\nand Enoch, who went before with his solid body.\nGrant, Father, the hoped-for breath of eternal light:","f":"Ausonius, <i>Eph. 3</i> 24 (PL 19:840; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ausonius-oratio/24)."},"ausonius-oratio/44":{"o":"Si lapides non juro deos, unumque verendi / Suspiciens altare sacri, libamina vitae / Intemerata fero : si te Dominique, Deique, / Unigenae cognosco Patrem, missumque Duobus, / Qui super aequoreas volitabat Spiritus undas. / Da, Genitor, veniam, cruciataque pectora purga : / Si te non pecudum fibris, non sanguine fuso / Quaero : nec arcanis numen conjecto sub extis : / Si scelere abstineo, errori obnoxius : et si / Opto magis, quam fido, bonus purusque probari. / Confessam dignare animam : si membra caduca / Exsecror, et tacitum si poenitet : altaque sensus / Formido excruciat, tormentaque sera gehennae / Anticipat, patiturque suos mens saucia manes. / Da, Pater, haec nostro fieri rata vota precatu. / Nil metuam, cupiamque nihil, satis hoc rear esse, / Quod satis est. Nil turpe velim, nec causa pudoris / Sim mihi. Non faciam cuiquam, quae tempore eodem / Nollem facta mihi. Nec vero crimine laedar, / Nec maculer dubio. Paulum distare videtur / Suspectus, vereque reus. Male posse facultas / Nulla sit : at bene posse adsit tranquilla potestas. / Sim tenui victu, atque habitu. Sim charus amicis.","t":"if I do not swear by stones as gods, and, looking up to the one altar\nof reverent sacrifice, I bring as offerings an unstained\nlife; if I know you as the Father of the Lord and God,\nthe Only-begotten, and him who was sent by the Two,\nthe Spirit who hovered over the waters of the sea:\ngrant, Begetter, pardon, and cleanse my tormented breast;\nif I seek you not in the entrails of cattle, not in blood poured out,\nnor guess at your divine will beneath hidden innards;\nif I keep from crime, though liable to error, and if\nI wish rather than trust to be proved good and pure:\ndeign to accept a soul that confesses; if I loathe my perishing\nlimbs, and silently repent, and deep\ndread tortures my senses and anticipates the late torments of Gehenna,\nand my wounded mind suffers its own ghosts:\ngrant, Father, that these vows be made good by our prayer.\nMay I fear nothing, desire nothing, and think this enough,\nwhat is enough. May I wish nothing shameful, nor be a cause of shame\nto myself. May I not do to anyone what at that same time\nI would not want done to me. May I not be harmed by a true charge,\nnor stained by a doubtful one. Little, it seems, separates\nthe suspect and the truly guilty. Let me have no means\nof doing harm, but let a calm power of doing good be present.\nMay I live on slender food and dress. May I be dear to friends,","f":"Ausonius, <i>Eph. 3</i> 44 (PL 19:840–841; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ausonius-oratio/44)."},"ausonius-oratio/67":{"o":"Et semper genitor, sine vulnere nominis hujus, / Non animo doleam, non corpore : cuncta quietis / Fungantur membra officiis : nec saucius ullis / Partibus amissum quidquam desideret usus. / Pace fruar. Securus agam. Miracula terrae / Nulla putem. Suprema mihi cum venerit hora, / Nec timeat mortem bene conscia vita, nec optet. / Purus ab occultis cum te indulgente videbor, / Omnia despiciam, fuerit cum sola voluptas / Judicium sperare tuum. Quod dum sua differt / Tempora, cunctaturque dies, procul exige saevum / Insidiatorem blandis erroribus anguem. / Haec pia, sed moesto trepidantia vota reatu, / Christe, apud aeternum placabilis assere Patrem. / Salvator, Deus, ac Dominus, mens, gloria, verbum, / Filius, ex vero verus, de lumine lumen, / Aeterno cum Patre manens, in saecula regnans. / Consona quem celebrant modulati carmina David : / Et responsuris ferit aera vocibus, Amen.","t":"and always a father, without wound to this name;\nmay I not grieve in mind or in body; may all my limbs\nperform their quiet offices; nor, injured in any\npart, may my use of them miss anything lost.\nMay I enjoy peace. May I live secure. May I think\nnone of the earth’s wonders great. When my last hour comes,\nmay a life of good conscience neither fear death nor wish for it.\nWhen by your indulgence I shall be seen pure of hidden faults,\nI shall despise all things, since my only pleasure will be\nto hope for your judgment. While it puts off its\ntimes, and the day delays, drive far away the savage\nambusher, the snake with his alluring errors.\nThese devout vows, though trembling with sorrowful guilt,\nChrist, you who can appease, plead for them before the eternal Father,\nSaviour, God, and Lord, Mind, Glory, Word,\nSon, true from true, light from light,\nabiding with the eternal Father, reigning for ever;\nwhom the harmonious songs of David’s measured strains celebrate,\nas the air is struck with voices about to answer: Amen.","f":"Ausonius, <i>Eph. 3</i> 67 (PL 19:841; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ausonius-oratio/67)."}}