{"ausonius-versus-paschales/1":{"o":"Sancta salutiferi redeunt solemnia CHRISTI : / Et devota pii celebrant jejunia mystae. / At nos aeternum cohibentes pectore cultum, / Intemeratorum vim continuamus bonorum. / Annua cura sacris, jugis reverentia nobis. / Magne Pater rerum, cui terra, et pontus, et aer, / Tartaraque et picti servit plaga lactea coeli : / Noxia quem scelerum plebes tremit, almaque rursum / Concelebrat votis animarum turba piarum : / Tu brevis hunc aevi cursum, celeremque caducae / Finem animae donas aeternae munere vitae. / Tu mites legum monitus, sacrosque prophetas / Humano impertis generi, servasque nepotes, / Deceptum miseratus Adam : quem capta venenis / Implicuit socium blandis erroribus Eva. / Tu verbum, Pater alme, tuum, natumque, deumque, / Concedis terris totum, similemque, paremque. / Ex vero verum, vivaque ab origine vivum. / Ille tuis doctus monitis hoc addidit unum : / Ut super aequoreas nabat qui Spiritus undas, / Pigra immortali vegetaret membra lavacro. / Trina fides, auctore uno; spes certa salutis / Hunc numerum junctis virtutibus amplectenti.","t":"The holy rites of saving Christ return,\nand the devout initiates keep the pious fasts.\nBut we, holding the eternal worship in our breast,\nkeep up without break the strength of unblemished goods.\nThe rites have a yearly care; we have a constant reverence.\nGreat Father of things, whom earth and sea and air\nand Tartarus and the milky tract of the painted sky serve,\nat whom the guilty throng of sinners trembles, and whom in turn\nthe kindly crowd of devout souls celebrates with vows:\nyou give to this brief course of life, and to the swift end\nof the perishing soul, the gift of eternal life.\nYou impart the gentle warnings of the laws, and holy prophets,\nto the human race, and you preserve the descendants,\npitying deceived Adam, whom Eve, caught by the poisons,\nentangled as her partner in alluring errors.\nYou, kindly Father, grant to the earth your Word, your Son and God,\nwhole, like you and equal,\ntrue from true, and living from a living source.\nHe, taught by your counsels, added this one thing:\nthat the Spirit who swam over the waters of the sea\nshould quicken sluggish limbs with an immortal washing.\nA threefold faith, with one author; a sure hope of salvation\nfor one who embraces this number with virtues joined.","f":"Ausonius, <i>Vers. pasch.</i> 1 (PL 19:878; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ausonius-versus-paschales/1)."},"ausonius-versus-paschales/24":{"o":"Tale et terrenis specimen spectatur in oris / Augustus genitor, geminum sator Augustorum. / Qui fratrem, natumque, pio complexus utrumque / Numine, partitur regnum, neque dividit unum, / Omnia solus habens, atque omnia dilargitus. / Hos igitur nobis trina pietate vigentes / Rectores terrae placidos, coelique ministros, / Christe apud aeternum placabilis assere patrem.","t":"Such an image is seen on earthly shores too:\nthe Augustus, father, begetter of twin Augusti,\nwho, embracing both his brother and his son with devout\ndivinity, shares out the kingdom yet does not divide the one,\nholding everything alone, and having bestowed everything.\nThese, then, flourishing for us in threefold devotion,\npeaceful rulers of the earth and ministers of heaven,\nChrist, you who can appease, commend them before the eternal Father.","f":"Ausonius, <i>Vers. pasch.</i> 24 (PL 19:878; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ausonius-versus-paschales/24)."}}