{"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1":{"o":"principio dominus caelum terramque locauit:\nnamque erat informis fluctuque abscondita tellus\ninmensusque deus super aequora uasta meabat.\ndum chaos et nigrae fuscabant cuncta tenebrae;\nhas dum disiungi iussit, a cardine fatur:\n\"Lux fiat !\" et clare nituerunt omnia mundo.\ncum dominus primi complesset facta diei,\ncondidit albentem nebulis nascentibus axem.\naccipit inmensus errantia litora pontus,\nmultiplices rapiens ualidis cum tractibus amnes.\ntertia lux faciem terrarum fulua retexit.\narida mox posito narratur nomine terra.\nflorea uentosis consurgunt germina campis\npomiferique simul procuruant brachia rami.\nquarta die generat solis cum lampade lunam.\net stellas tremulo radiantes lumine figit.\nhaec elementa dedit subiecto insignia mundo,\ntempora quae doceant uarios mutanda per ortus.\nquinta die accipiunt liquentia flumina pisces\net uolucres uarias suspendunt aere pinnas.\nsexta pater gelidos in spiras lubricat angues\nquadrupedumque greges totos diffundit in agros\ncunctaque multiplici mandauit crescere passim\ngermine et inmensis errare et pascere terris.","t":"In the beginning the Lord set heaven and earth in place;\nfor the earth was formless and hidden by the flood,\nand the immeasurable God was moving over the vast waters,\nwhile chaos and black darkness dimmed all things;\nwhen he commanded these to be parted, he speaks from heaven’s pole:\n“Let there be light!” and all things shone brightly in the world.\nWhen the Lord had completed the works of the first day,\nhe founded the sky, white with rising clouds.\nThe immeasurable sea receives its wandering shores,\nsweeping in many rivers with powerful currents.\nThe third light uncovered the tawny face of the lands.\nSoon the dry ground, its name given, is called earth.\nFlowering shoots spring up in the windy fields,\nand fruit-bearing branches at once bend their arms.\nOn the fourth day he begets the moon with the sun’s lamp\nand fixes the stars, radiant with trembling light.\nThese elements he gave as emblems to the world beneath,\nto teach the seasons that must change through their various risings.\nOn the fifth day the flowing streams receive fish,\nand the various birds hang their wings in the air.\nOn the sixth the Father makes the cold serpents glide in coils\nand spreads herds of four-footed beasts through all the fields,\nand he commanded all things everywhere to increase with manifold\noffspring and to roam and feed over the immeasurable lands.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1 (CSEL 23:2lines 1–24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.101":{"o":"protinus ira dei turbatam territat Aeuuam,\nauctorem uetiti dum quaerit maximus acti.\nilla sub haec pandit: \"Serpentis suasa loquella\naccepi, fallente dolo blandoque rogatu.\nnam sua uipereis intexens uerba uenenis\nhaec mihi prae cunctis narrauit dulcia pomis.\"\nIlicet omnipotens condemnat gesta draconis\npraecipiens cunctis inuisum uiuere monstrum,\npectore mox fuso prorepere, tum sola morsu\nmandere, mansuro quaecumque in tempora bello\nhumanos inter sensus ipsumque labentem.\nuertice ut abiecto pronus post crura uirorum\nserperet et calces, dum labens comminus instat.\nfemina fraudigeris misere decepta suadellis\npraecipitur duro discrimine ponere partum\nseruitiumque sui studio perferre mariti.\n\"Tu uero, cui uisa fuit sententia uerax\nconiugis, inmiti cessit quae uicta draconi,\ndeflebis miserum per tempora longa laborem.\nnam tibi triticeae surget pro germine messis\ncarduus et spinis multum paliurus acutis,\nut cum uisceribus lassis et pectore maesto\nplurima sollicitos praestent suspiria uictus,\ndonec in occiduo uenientis tempore mortis,\nunde geris corpus, terrae reddare iacenti.\"","t":"At once the wrath of God terrifies the troubled Eve,\nas the Most High asks who was the author of the forbidden deed.\nShe then reveals: “I received the serpent’s persuasive\nspeech, through deceiving guile and coaxing request.\nFor, weaving his words with viper’s poisons,\nhe told me these fruits were sweet above all.”\nAt once the Almighty condemns the deeds of the serpent,\ncommanding the monster to live hated by all,\nsoon to crawl forward on its outstretched breast, then to eat\nthe ground with its bite, in a war to last for all times\nbetween human minds and itself as it glides,\nso that with head cast down it would creep flat behind the legs of men\nand at their heels, while gliding it presses close.\nThe woman, wretchedly deceived by fraud-bearing persuasions,\nis commanded to give birth amid harsh danger\nand to bear subjection to her husband with devotion.\n“But you, to whom the counsel of your wife seemed true,\nwho, defeated, yielded to the cruel serpent,\nshall bewail your wretched toil through long ages.\nFor in place of the crop of wheat there will spring up\nthe thistle and the thorn bush with many sharp spines,\nso that with wearied body and sorrowful breast\nyour anxious food may cost you very many sighs,\nuntil, in the setting time of death when it comes,\nyou are given back to the lying earth from which you bear your body.”","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.101 (CSEL 23:5lines 101–125; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-101)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1024":{"o":"\"O deus, inmensi spes et substantia regni,\nqui deus es semper genitoris solus auique,\ncuius ab exilio faciunt me iussa reuerti,\ngrandia ditato largitus commoda seruo\niussisti lenta fluuium transmittere uirga\nIordanemque tuum humili transmittere gressu.\net nunc diuiduis cernis me degere castris,\nut uarios casus gemino munimine uitem.\neripe me his, inuicte, malis et spicula fratris\ninfracto placidus quam primum decute ferro,\nne rapidus duro feriat mea pectora telo.\"\nergo ubi conposuit socios somnosque petiuit,\nluctantem superare deum sub nocte laborat;\nfemine nam presso stupuit pars corporis illa.\ncumque diu uellet membrorum soluere nexus\nis, qui pulsarat ualido certamine uatem,\npraestita dimissum dominus post dona remisit.\nnomine mutato Iacobus desinit esse,\nac \"Dominum cernens\" cunctorum dicitur ore,\nausus quin etiam domini condiscere nomen,\nnon potuit, soli quod ius est nosse tonanti.\nipse locum Domini conpellat nomine uisi,\ncontigerat cuius sublimes cernere uultus.\natque ubi se dominus pulsa iam nocte remouit,\negreditur longa sustentans cuspide gressus.","t":"“O God, hope and substance of an immeasurable kingdom,\nwho alone are always the God of my father and grandfather,\nwhose commands make me return from exile,\nyou who bestowed great benefits on your enriched servant\ncommanded me to cross the river with a pliant staff\nand to cross your Jordan with humble step.\nAnd now you see me living in divided camps,\nto avoid various misfortunes with a twofold defence.\nRescue me from these evils, unconquered one, and graciously\nstrike the darts from my brother’s hand as soon as may be, their iron broken,\nlest in his haste he strike my breast with his harsh weapon.”\nSo when he had settled his companions and sought sleep,\nhe toils under night to overcome God, wrestling with him;\nfor, the thigh being pressed, that part of his body went numb.\nAnd when he who had struck the prophet in strong contest\nlong wished to loose the hold of their limbs,\nthe Lord, once released, let him go after granting his gifts.\nHis name changed, he ceases to be Jacob\nand is called by the mouth of all “Seeing the Lord”;\nhe dared even to learn the Lord’s name,\nbut could not, because it is the right of the Thunderer alone to know it.\nHe himself calls the place by the name of the Lord who was seen,\nwhose lofty face it had befallen him to behold.\nAnd when the Lord withdrew, the night now driven away,\nhe goes out supporting his steps with a long staff.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1024 (CSEL 23:39lines 1024–1048; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1024)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1049":{"o":"hinc Iudaea memor deuitat mandere neruum.\nqui femur adstrictum rigido munimine fulcit.\niamque uidens fratrem uallatum congrege turma,\nprocuruus prona dominum ceruice salutat:\ncongressi multo coniungunt pectora fletu...\net iam iamque magis uario sermone requirit,\nqui ueniant comitante manu, quae turba sequatur.\nille docet, nuptae quo sint genitore creatae,\ndiuersique greges qua sint mercede parati.\nconfestimque nurus curuo cum poplite fusae\nadmorunt teneros cognata ad basia natos.\nat senior praelata pie dum munera uitat.\nmitificus mulcet concordis pignora uatis\natque libens fratre pariter comitante lux.\nut uice sermonum sensim sua gesta referent.\nsed quia lentigrado serpebant agmine fetae,\nsubsedit uates gregibus famulisque regendis\nparuaque frondoso posuit mapalia tecto,\nnomine quae fixo placuit uocitare Tabernas.\ndeuenit ad Sicimas, quae sunt regione Chananna,\nmercatus pretio confinis praedia terrae.\natque deum exstructis properans altaribus orat.\nillic inprobius Dinam Correus amatam\npolluit et tenerae praecerpsit uirginis usum\nconiungique uolens procuruant praeputia dempsit,\ngrandia dona ferens rapta pro coniuge uati.","t":"Hence Judea, mindful, avoids eating the sinew\nthat supports the thigh, bound with stiff strength.\nAnd now, seeing his brother surrounded by a band,\nbending low with bowed neck he greets him as lord;\nmeeting, they join breast to breast with much weeping …\nand now, more and more, Esau asks in varied speech\nwho these are coming with an escort, what crowd follows.\nJacob explains from what father his wives were born\nand by what wage the various flocks were acquired.\nAt once the wives, kneeling with bent knee,\nbrought the tender children to their kinsman’s kisses.\nBut the elder, while he graciously declines the gifts offered,\ngently caresses the children of the prophet, now at peace with him,\nand gladly, with his brother accompanying, leads the way,\nso that by turns of talk they might gradually recount their deeds.\nBut because the ewes with young crept along with slow column,\nthe prophet stayed behind to manage the flocks and servants\nand set up small huts with leafy roofs,\nwhich it pleased him to call by a fixed name, Booths.\nHe came to Shechem, which is in the Canaanite region,\nhaving bought with a price the estates of the neighbouring land,\nand, making haste, prays to God at altars he built.\nThere the Hivite shamelessly defiled Dinah, whom he loved,\nand took the tender maiden’s virginity,\nand, wishing to be joined to her, had his foreskin removed,\nbringing great gifts to the prophet for the bride he had seized.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1049 (CSEL 23:40lines 1049–1074; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1049)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1075":{"o":"tertia luce dehinc, maius qua uulnera feruent.\nstellas tota pariter cum pube necatur.\nnatorum ferro doluit haec gesta Iacobus,\ninfractum foedus socia cum gente locutus.\nilicet omnipotens monuit discedere uatem\natque domum fidam B £ radiantes in sede locare.\nfestinat paretque deo natosque precatur,\nut delubra deum rigido formata metallo\nconminuant niueoque togas sub tegmine sumant.\nipse deos nullos Terebinthi abscondit in antro\ningentemque uidet dominum depromere sueta\nuerba sibi uatemque fore se numinis alti\nditibus in terris, dominus quas uouerat Abrae.\nipse loco nomen posuit saxumque sacrauit,\nquod uenerans liquido totum perfundit oliuo,\nerexitque domum turris sub tecta Gaderae.\nhaec inter flumina, graui confecta dolore,\nfunere facta parens Beniaminum fudit ab aluo.\nnamque praeter natos iustis de matribus ortos\npignora subposita uates genetrice creauit\nagnouitque libens socio de germine Ballae\nconspicuum Danem, quem Neptalimus adurget.\nast alios mox Zelpha creat, Gadumque Aserumque.\noptinet hoc etiam, meritis quod defore norat,\nut patrios uultus tanta cum prole uideret;","t":"Then on the third light, when wounds burn most,\nHamor is slain together with all the young men.\nJacob grieved at these deeds done by his sons’ sword,\nsaying the covenant with the allied people had been broken.\nAt once the Almighty warned the prophet to depart\nand to place his faithful house in the seat of Bethel.\nHe hastens and obeys God and asks his sons\nto break the shrines of the gods formed of rigid metal\nand to put on garments under a snowy covering.\nHe himself hid the gods, now nothing, in the hollow of the terebinth,\nand sees the mighty Lord bring forth his accustomed\nwords to him, that he will be the prophet of the high divinity\nin the rich lands that the Lord had vowed to Abraham.\nHe himself gave the place a name and consecrated the stone,\nwhich, revering, he drenched all over with liquid oil,\nand he set up his house under the roofs of the tower of Eder.\nMeanwhile, worn out with heavy pain,\nthe mother, dying in childbirth, brought Benjamin forth from her womb.\nFor besides the sons born of lawful mothers,\nthe prophet had begotten children by substitute mothers,\nand gladly acknowledged from Bilhah, his wife’s partner,\nconspicuous Dan, whom Naphtali follows close.\nBut soon Zilpah bears others, Gad and Asher.\nHe obtains this too, which he knew he did not deserve,\nthat he should see his father’s face with so great an offspring;","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1075 (CSEL 23:41lines 1075–1099; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1075)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1100":{"o":"ut. qui iam uetula fuerat genetrice creatus,\nbis seno insignis posset gaudere nepote.\nergo ubi iam tandem bis nonaginta per annos\nuita fuit proceris et longum ducta per aeuum,\nsoluitur et lasso de corpore candidus exit.\nuisurus sanctas, metitur dat prudentia, sedes,\nin quibus astrigero recubans per saecula fulchro\ninuitat niueos secura ad gaudia iustos.\niamque iuuat fratres metatas didere sedes;\nnam quia non poterant angusto in limite terrae\ncrescentes gregibus multis cohibere colonos.\nanterior Sirum montem post arua Chananna\naccipit et laeta praediues pascua sumpsit.\nChanannaea sequens non linquit regna Iacobus,\nut patrio semper gauderet mens pia ritu;\nillic conspicuos Iosepus suscipit actus,\neffulgens inter tanto discrimine fratres,\nquanto luna nitet parua inter sidera caeli.\nqui cum iam septem decemque adtingeret annos.\nseruabat patrias herboso in gramine fetas,\nomnibus incedens natu minor, quos generosis;\nprogenuit thalamis campi uel paelice serua.\net quia conspicuus germana in classe uirebat,\nfraternos sensus liuoris frigore mouit.","t":"so that he who had been born of an already aged mother\nmight rejoice, renowned, in twice six grandsons.\nSo when at last the chief’s life had lasted twice ninety years\nand been drawn out through a long age,\nhe is released and goes forth shining from his weary body,\nto see the holy seats that wisdom grants,\nin which, reclining through the ages on a starry couch,\nhe invites the snow-white righteous to secure joys.\nAnd now the brothers resolve to divide the measured lands;\nfor since they could not, within the narrow bounds of the land,\nkeep their herdsmen, growing with many flocks,\nthe elder receives Mount Seir beyond the Canaanite fields\nand, very rich, took glad pastures.\nJacob, following, does not leave the Canaanite realms,\nso that his pious mind might always rejoice in his father’s rite.\nThere Joseph takes up conspicuous deeds,\nshining among his brothers by as great a difference\nas the moon shines among the small stars of the sky.\nWhen he was now reaching seven and ten years,\nhe kept his father’s breeding flocks in the grassy pasture,\ngoing about among them all, the youngest in birth, whom Jacob begot\nfrom noble marriage beds or from a slave concubine of the field.\nAnd because he flourished conspicuously in the band of brothers,\nhe moved his brothers’ minds with the chill of envy.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1100 (CSEL 23:42lines 1100–1123; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1100)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1124":{"o":"hunc pater ex toto conplectens stirpe natorum\nmulcebat tenerum ualida inter corpora fratrum,\nquoque magis cunctos inter conspectior esset,\nuelabat uario uestis circumflua fuco.\nis cum iam teneris domino inseruiret ab annis.\nforte uidet placido sopitus lumina somno\nfratribus admixtum sese uincire maniplos.\ndum medias inter distringunt farra nouales,\natque suum recto sublimem surgere cono,\nquem iuxta prona fratrum terit ruebant.\nid postquam iuuenis placido sermone retexit,\ncommouit trepido pauitantia corda tumultu;\nmurmure terrifico regem dominumque loquentes,\nprodebant sceleri secretum defore solum.\nquoque magis gemina tristes disrumperet ira,\nsomnia doctiloquo pandit perspecta parenti,\nomnibus admotis, quos linea sanguinis artat.\nnamque uidebatur roseum sibi cernere solem\nconiunctamque simul tremulo cum lumine lunam\nhisque decem stellas unamque adsurgere iunctas\net sibi ceu domino procurua inflectere colla.\nhaec postquam obliquo genitor cognouerat ore,\nfassus adorandum trepidis mox fratribus esse.\nilicet excedunt iuuenes, gregibusque paternis\ndisquirunt flumine per florea gramina ualles;","t":"His father, loving him above the whole stock of his sons,\ncaressed the tender boy among his brothers’ strong bodies,\nand, so that he might be more conspicuous among them all,\na flowing garment of varied dye clothed him.\nWhen he had served the Lord from his tender years,\nhe chanced, his eyes lulled in peaceful sleep, to see\nhimself among his brothers binding sheaves,\nwhile they reaped the grain in the middle of the fields,\nand his own sheaf rising lofty on an upright point,\nwhile his brothers’ sheaves, bowing low beside it, rushed toward it.\nAfter the young man revealed this in calm speech,\nhe stirred their fearful hearts with a trembling tumult;\nspeaking with a terrifying murmur of a king and lord,\nthey betrayed that only the crime itself was still lacking to their secret plan.\nAnd, to break their gloomy hearts with a double wrath,\nhe tells his learned father the dreams he had seen,\nwith all present whom the line of blood binds.\nFor he seemed to see the rosy sun\nand with it the moon, joined with trembling light,\nand with these ten stars and one rising together\nand bending their necks low to him as to a lord.\nAfter the father had heard this with a reproving mouth,\nhe declared that soon he would be bowed to by his anxious brothers.\nAt once the young men go out and seek, with their father’s flocks,\nthe valleys by the river through the flowery grass;","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1124 (CSEL 23:42lines 1124–1148–43; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1124)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1149":{"o":"ad quos missus abit dumisque silentibus errat,\nedoctus quodam iuuenum monstrante recessus,\ngramine mutato fratrum quos legerat agmen;\nquem procul ut uaria licuit praenoscere ueste.\nconsilium infaustum linguis discordibus aptant.\nomnibus inuisum constat sententia fratrem\nperdere et extinctum morsu narrare ferarum,\ndum rapidi secum uentoso murmure mussant:\n\"Somnia, cernamus, poterunt si pellere letum.\"\nrespuit hoc placidis numquid mitior orsis\nfrendentesque monet praedurum condere ferrum,\nstagnanti memorans melius mersare palude.\nilicet exuitur nudusque inuoluitur frigente.\nhaec inter solitus merces mutare Sabaeas\nperferre graui trudebat mole camelos.\ndum properat Arabum messes deferre Canopo.\nergo ubi germani spes est adflicta minoris.\nIudas ait melius Iosepum uendere nummis.\ncelatur genitor uestemque in sanguine tinctam\nperspiciens nulla metitur fraude necatum.\ndiscindit manibus uestem Abelus aduncis\nnigrantesque sibi cilicum circumdat amictus.\nadflictus luctu genitor perquirit amissum,\nquem dudum acceptum semiuir Pharaonis habebat,\nauratas solitus mensas onerare tyranni\nlancibus et strepitu magnae gaudere culinae.","t":"Sent to them, he goes and wanders among silent thickets,\ntaught by a young man who showed him the retreats\nto which the band of brothers had moved their pasture.\nWhen they could recognize him from afar by his varied garment,\nthey contrive an ill-omened plan with discordant tongues.\nThe decision stands among all to destroy the hated brother\nand to tell that he was killed by the bite of beasts,\nwhile, in haste, they mutter among themselves with windy murmur:\n“Let us see whether dreams can drive off death.”\nOne, gentler, rejects this with calm words\nand warns the gnashing men to sheathe their hard iron,\nsaying it was better to sink him in a stagnant pool.\nAt once he is stripped and, naked, cast into the cold pit.\nMeanwhile one used to trade Sabaean wares\nwas driving camels to carry heavy loads,\nhastening to bring the harvests of the Arabs to Canopus.\nSo when the hope for the younger brother was crushed,\nJudah says it is better to sell Joseph for coins.\nThe father is deceived and, seeing the garment dyed in blood,\njudges that he was killed with no deceit.\nHe tears his garment with hooked hands\nand wraps himself in a black mantle of haircloth.\nStricken with grief, the father seeks the lost one,\nwhom a eunuch of Pharaoh had long since received and kept,\none used to load the tyrant’s gilded tables\nwith dishes and to rejoice in the din of the great kitchen.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1149 (CSEL 23:43lines 1149–1174–44; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1149)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1175":{"o":"haec inter Thamara parit, dum gaudia culpae\nlaeta placent, geminoque impletur pignore uenter.\nquorum prima puer meruit qui lumina uitae,\nexeruit prompsitque manum, quam femina sollers\npunicea de reste ligat; mox conditur aluo\net uice mutata confestim nascitur alter.\nanteriora tenens, fuerat qui sorte secundus.\nhic quoniam fuerat discretus limite quondam,\nZarae nomen habet, alium dixere Pharetem.\nSeruabat domini custodia fida terrarum,\nnon passus durae subiectum uiuere legi.\nanterius nam dictus erus dat cuncta ministro,\nnec spe cassa quidem; dominus nam mitis ab alto\nomnia, quae iuuenis seruabat, largius auxit.\nnec tamen optinuit Petaphretae inmitis amorem;\nnam quia conspicuo fulgerent lumina uultu,\nexorat coitum domina male saucia serui.\nsed uitat iam foeda puer seseque recusat\nsacratum culpa immodica pressare cubile.\nfemina sed uetitis nequiquam perdita flammis\nexplorat molles aditus et tempora captat.\nforte domum uacuam solumque ut repperit. instat\nconsertumque manu cogit decumbere secum.\ntanto ille alacer uestemque a corpore demit\natque inter dominae geminas dilabitur ulnas.","t":"Meanwhile Tamar gives birth, while the glad joys of guilt\nplease, and her womb is filled with twin offspring.\nOf these, the boy who first earned the light of life\nthrust forth and put out his hand, which the skilful woman\nties with a scarlet cord; soon it is drawn back into the womb\nand, the order changed, the other is at once born,\ntaking the first place, who had been second by lot.\nBecause this one had once been separated by a boundary,\nhe has the name Zerah; the other they called Perez.\nThe faithful guardianship of the Lord kept Joseph in that land,\nnot suffering him to live subject to a harsh law.\nFor the master named before gives everything to his servant,\nand not in empty hope; for the gentle Lord from on high\nincreased more largely all that the young man kept.\nYet he did not escape a cruel love in Potiphar’s house;\nfor because his eyes shone in his conspicuous face,\nhis mistress, sorely wounded, begs the slave to lie with her.\nBut the boy shuns these foul things and refuses\nto press the consecrated bed with immoderate guilt.\nBut the woman, lost in vain in forbidden flames,\nexplores gentle approaches and watches for her time.\nBy chance, when she found the house empty and him alone, she presses on\nand, seizing him by the hand, urges him to lie with her.\nSo much the more eagerly he takes the garment from his body\nand slips away between his mistress’s two arms.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1175 (CSEL 23:44lines 1175–1199–45; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1175)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1200":{"o":"femina proclamat uiresque a crimine sumit,\nuociferans praedulce decus temerasse pudoris\nfidentem forma iuuenem, dum lubricus aeuo\nferuet et erilem molitur scandere lectum.\nquin etiam tristi conpellat uoce maritum\ninnocuumque reum placitae uult subdere poenae\nquae ceu uera putans infenso carcere claudit,\nin quo iam regis cohibebat poena ministros.\ncarceris hunc custos blando mox pectore mulcet\ninnocuumque uidens conmissa ergastula legat.\nillic forte duo, celsa quos toruus in aula\ncondiderat nigro permotus felle tyrannus,\ninclusi poenam trepido sub corde pauebant,\nac dum sollicitis furantur lumina curis,\nsomnia uenturis uiderunt nuntia rebus.\nhos cum perspicuo Mathusalamus lumine maestos,\nperquirit causas cogitque occulta fateri.\ncontinuo, qui uina dabat consueta tyranno,\neloquitur, quae uisa forent sub nocte sopora:\n\"Cernebam uiridi frondentem palmite uitem,\ndum serpit nexaque suo de uerbere pendet,\npampineos inter Sella tris adfore, fundos,\nuuaque nectareo pendebat flaua racemo.\ninde calix regis, quo mitia pocula libat,\nspumabat tenero, quod pressit dextera. musto.","t":"The woman cries out and takes strength from the crime,\nshouting that the young man, trusting in his beauty, had violated\nthe sweet honour of her chastity, while, wanton in his youth,\nhe burns and tries to climb into his master’s bed.\nMoreover she addresses her husband with a sad voice\nand wants to subject the innocent defendant to the penalty she pleases;\nhe, thinking it true, shuts him in a hostile prison,\nin which punishment already confined the king’s servants.\nThe keeper of the prison soon soothes him with a kind heart\nand, seeing him innocent, entrusts the prison to him.\nThere by chance two, whom the grim tyrant, moved by black gall,\nhad shut away from the lofty court,\nimprisoned, feared punishment in their trembling hearts,\nand while anxious cares were stealing their sight,\nthey saw dreams announcing things to come.\nWhen Joseph with clear eye saw them sad,\nhe asks the causes and makes them confess what was hidden.\nAt once the one who served the tyrant his customary wine\ntells what he had seen in the drowsy night:\n“I saw a vine leafy with green shoot,\ncreeping and hanging from its own twined lash,\nand three branches standing among the vine leaves,\nand the yellow grape hung in a nectar-sweet cluster.\nThen the king’s cup, from which he pours mild drinks,\nfoamed with tender new wine that my right hand pressed,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1200 (CSEL 23:45lines 1200–1224–46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1200)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1225":{"o":"quem dominus prompta susceptum palma tenebat.\"\nomnia tum iuuenis signanter clausa reuelat.\ntris fundos uitam esse dies, quibus ille secutis\namissum rursus relegat repetatque fauorem,\nmixturus placido, quae uidit, pocula regi.\n\"Hoc tantum meritis pro talibus effice, \" dicit,\n\"ut, cum sumpta tibi fuerit fiducia fandi,\ndimoueas nostram nullo de crimine poenam.\nHebraea gens dicta mihi. nam uenditus uatum\ncrimine fraterno seruitum nobilis iui.\"\npost haec uisa sibi pistorum maximus infit:\n\" Vertice trina meo uisus gestare canistra\nregificis dapibus lautoque inpleta paratu,\nunguibus innumerae uolucres quae rapta ferebant.\"\nhis dictis sat uera quidem, sed dura loquendo\nmactandum duro testatur mox fore ferro\nauulsumque caput figendum in stipite celso,\nquod uolucres toruo discerpant protinus ore.\nconplentur cuncta, iuuenis quae dixerat, et mox\nredditus ille loco, caesus hic corpore trunco est.\ninterea geminos iam tempora lapsa per annos\nrursus ad eoos torquebant sidera cursus,\nsomnia cum ductor uidit Niloticus ista :\nnamque uidebatur, fluuium dum spectat amoenum,\ncorporibus nitidis septem spectare iuuencas,\ntondentes uiridis pubentia gramina ripis;","t":"which the lord took and held in his ready palm.”\nThen the young man reveals all the hidden things clearly:\nthe three branches are three days, after which\nhe will win back the favour he lost and regain it,\nto mix for the pleased king the cups he saw.\n“Only do this in return for such service,” he says,\n“that, when confidence to speak is granted you,\nyou remove my punishment, due to no crime.\nI am said to be of the Hebrew race; for, sold\nthrough my brothers’ crime, though nobly born, I went into slavery.”\nAfter this the chief of the bakers begins:\n“I seemed to carry three baskets on my head,\nfilled with kingly dishes and sumptuous fare,\nwhich countless birds carried off, seized in their talons.”\nAt these words, true indeed but harsh to speak,\nhe testifies that he will soon be slain by the cruel sword\nand his head, torn off, fixed on a high stake,\nfor birds at once to tear with grim beaks.\nAll that the young man had said is fulfilled, and soon\nthe one is restored to his place, the other cut down, his body maimed.\nMeanwhile, as time slipped through two years,\nthe stars were again turning their courses toward the east,\nwhen the ruler of the Nile saw these dreams:\nfor he seemed, while he watched the pleasant river,\nto see seven heifers with sleek bodies\ncropping the young grass of the green bank;","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1225 (CSEL 23:46lines 1225–1250–47; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1225)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1251":{"o":"his alias turpes macie subiungere gressus\ndumque suis pigrae (mirum!) uix ossibus haerent,\neximias patulo sorbebant ore iuuencas.\nsomnia iunguntur paribus non dissona causis;\necce uidet spicas fecundo e germine septem,\natque alias tenues et loquente semine cassas\n(horrendum dictu!) Sethum ceu mandere fruges.\nid uisum maestus nequaquam mente cohercet.\nsed trepidus cunctos, qui callent, adfore iussit\ndisquirens, clausis quae sit sententia rebus.\natque ubi consultus tacuit Memphiticus augur,\ncarcere qui dudum laxatus uina praebebat,\neloquitur iuuenis sese pandente Iosepo\namisso rediisse loco sociumque necatum.\nmittuntur propere, uatem qui crimine toto\nexutum turpi celeres de fornice tollant\ninformesque genas et crines carcere pastos\ntondentes prisca facerent reuirescere forma.\nergo probus dictis consultus talia reddit\natque docet uaccas annorum nuntias esse,\natque leues spicas septenos disserit orbes.\nnamque ita digestis uentura insignia formis,\nut septem fecunda satis sit terra per annos,\natque famem diram parili cum tempore ualeret,\nquis penitus tellus sitientibus arida uenis\npallida puluereo consumat gramina sulco.","t":"that others, foul with leanness, came after them,\nand while, sluggish, they scarcely held together (a marvel!) on their bones,\nthey were swallowing the excellent heifers with wide mouths.\nDreams not unlike are joined, with like meanings;\nsee, he sees seven ears from fertile seed,\nand others thin and empty of grain\n(dreadful to tell!) devouring the crops.\nSad, he by no means keeps this vision in his mind,\nbut in alarm ordered all who are skilled to come,\nasking what meaning lies in these hidden things.\nAnd when the Memphian seer, consulted, was silent,\nhe who, long since released from prison, served the wine\nsays that when the young Joseph explained it\nhe had returned to the place he lost and his companion was killed.\nMen are sent in haste to take the prophet, cleared\nof every crime, swiftly out of the foul vault,\nand, shearing the unkempt cheeks and the hair grown long in prison,\nto make him flourish again in his former beauty.\nSo the upright man, consulted, gives such answers\nand teaches that the cows are messengers of years,\nand explains the light ears as seven circling years.\nFor so are the things to come signified in distinct forms:\nthat for seven years the earth will be fertile enough,\nand that dire famine will prevail an equal time,\nin which the land, wholly dry in its thirsting veins,\nconsumes the pale grass in the dusty furrow.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1251 (CSEL 23:47lines 1251–1276–48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1251)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.126":{"o":"His actis dominus trepidis dat taedia uitae\ndeiectosque procul sacratis dimouet hortis\nobuersosque locat medioque eliminat igni,\nin quo perceleri Cherubin euoluitur aestu.\ndum calidus deferuet apex flammasque uolutat.\nquis dominus, pigro ne frigore membra rigerent.\nconsuit euulsas pecudum de uiscere pelles,\noperiens nudos calidis de uestibus artus.\nErgo ubi coniugio sese iam fidus Adamus\nesse uirum sensit, nomen genetricis amatae\nexhibet uxori: binos e germine fetus\ncontinuo genitor diuersis nuncupat orsis:\nCainis hic nomen habet, cui iunctus Abelus\ninnocuas multa seruabat cura bidentes:\nast alius curuo terram uertebat aratro.\nhi cum perpetuo ferrent sua dona tonanti,\ndissimiles fructus sensu suadente dedere.\nnam prior uberibus fuerant quae prosata glaebis,\nobtulit, ast alius miti se deuouet agno,\nexta gerens sincera manu adipemque niualem,\nconfestimque placet domino pia uota tuenti.\nquod propter gelida Cain incanduit ira.\nquem deus adloquio dignatus talibus infit:\n'Dic mihi, si rectum uiuas et noxia cernas,\ndegere non possis contracto a crimine purus?","t":"This done, the Lord gives the frightened pair weariness of life\nand drives them out far from the sacred gardens\nand sets them facing away and shuts them out by a fire between,\nin which the Cherub rolls forth with swift heat,\nwhile the hot point seethes and whirls its flames.\nFor them the Lord, lest their limbs grow stiff with sluggish cold,\nsewed skins stripped from the flesh of cattle,\ncovering their naked limbs with warm garments.\nSo when faithful Adam perceived that he was now\na husband in wedlock, he gives his wife the name\nof a beloved mother: two offspring of his seed\nthe father forthwith names with different beginnings:\nthis one has the name Cain; joined with him, Abel\nkept the harmless sheep with much care,\nbut the other turned the earth with the curved plough.\nWhen they were bringing their gifts to the Thunderer continually,\nthey gave unlike fruits as their minds prompted.\nFor the first offered what had sprung from the fertile clods,\nbut the other devotes himself with a gentle lamb,\ncarrying in his hand the pure entrails and snowy fat,\nand at once the pious offerings please the Lord as he looks on.\nFor this reason Cain glowed with cold anger.\nGod, deigning to address him, begins thus:\n“Tell me, if you live rightly and discern what is harmful,\ncould you not live pure of the guilt you have contracted?","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.126 (CSEL 23:6lines 126–150; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-126)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1277":{"o":"nam quae duplicibus iunguntur somnia uisis,\ncerta deus iuncto mandat constare tonante.\n\"Quin potius dum tempus adest, dum cura medendi est,\nelige de captiuosque, qui praescius horum\niudicibus positis totam sublimis Aegyptum\ntemperet et quintas quacumque ex messe reposcat,\nut quae prima datur fecundis copia terris.\nsustineat steriles consumptis frugibus annos.\"\naccipitur plausu procerum sententia uatis.\nipse etiam tandem sedato pectore caelesti\nuera renarrantem celso sublimat honore\npraefectumque iubet totas se ferre per urbes.\ninde anulo digitum uatis fulgente coronat.\nbyssina mox croceo circumdat pallia peplo,\nflexilis induitur per collum circulus criminibus\natque nouus rector curru sublimior extat\nclamosusque praeco cameris iudicis auget.\nquin etiam legitur coniunx, cui nomen aequora(uatem.\nquam genuit claro Petaphras ⟨de⟩ stemmate uates,\nex qua confestim genitor fit pignore bino.\ndicitur anterior Manasses, iunior Ephrem.\nexigit hinc uates suggestu nobilis alto,\nquidquid uix potuit ieiunum adsumere tempus,\nhorrea plena tenens, ut cum res posceret uti,\nproferret cunctis poscentibus abdita farra.","t":"For dreams that are joined in double visions\nGod the Thunderer commands to stand sure, joined together.\n“Rather, while the time is at hand, while there is room for remedy,\nchoose one who, foreknowing these things,\nwith judges appointed, may govern all Egypt from on high\nand demand back a fifth of every harvest,\nso that the plenty first given to the fertile lands\nmay sustain the barren years when the crops are consumed.”\nThe prophet’s counsel is received with the nobles’ applause.\nThe king himself too, his heart at last calmed,\nraises to lofty honour the one who recounted heavenly truths\nand orders him to be borne as governor through all the cities.\nThen he crowns the prophet’s finger with a shining ring,\nsoon wraps him in linen cloaks with a saffron robe;\na pliant chain is put around his neck,\nand the new ruler stands higher in a chariot,\nand a loud herald proclaims the judge before him.\nMoreover a wife is chosen, whose name was Asenath,\nwhom the priest Potiphera begot of noble lineage,\nand by her he at once becomes father of two children.\nThe elder is called Manasseh, the younger Ephraim.\nHence the prophet, noble on his high platform, collects\nwhatever the lean time could scarcely take,\nkeeping full granaries, so that when need required\nhe might bring out the hidden grain to all who asked.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1277 (CSEL 23:48lines 1277–1301–49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1277)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1302":{"o":"post ubi dira fames totum diffusa per orbem\ncogebat trepidos, poterat quod mandier, esse,\nconclamat populus regemque efflagitat escas.\nille iubet procerem maestis dare farra Iosepum\nparentem monitis: cunctos qui his arca.\nInterea Jacobus, fleto iam funere nati,\nbis quinos iuuenes numeroso e germine mittit,\nqui longinqua (sibi) pretio frumenta pararent:\nac minimum cunctis Beniaminum non sinit ire,\ninualidus durum nequeat ne ferre laborem.\natque ubi iam Phariae peruentum ad moenia terrae est,\nsubmissi petiere solum fratremque salutant,\nmirantes celsa sublimem sede sedentem,\nnec tamen agnoscunt longo post tempore uisum.\nquos ubi perspexit memori cum mente propheta,\nincrepat et multa proterret uoce pauentes,\nflumine uenisse ferens, quae copia frugum\nquique uiri pingues teneant moderamine terras.\nadlegant nescire dolos seseque fatentur\nbis senos quondam fratres genitore sub uno\nconspicuam tenuisse domum; his omnibus unum\npostremum natu patrios seruare labores,\nast alium celebri iam pridem defore leto.\nse diram uitare famem terramque Chanannam\nexosos, tenui damnantem semina fetu,\nposcere uenales species licitataque farra.","t":"Afterwards, when dire famine, spread over the whole world,\nwas forcing the frightened to eat whatever could be eaten,\nthe people cry out and demand food from the king.\nHe orders them to obey the warnings of the chief Joseph,\nwho gives grain to all from his stores.\nMeanwhile Jacob, who had already wept for his son’s death,\nsends twice five young men from his numerous offspring\nto buy grain for themselves from afar at a price;\nbut he does not let Benjamin, the youngest of all, go,\nlest, weak as he was, he should not bear the hard toil.\nAnd when they had come to the walls of the Egyptian land,\nthey bowed to the ground and greet their brother,\nmarvelling at him seated high on a lofty seat;\nyet they do not recognize him, seen after a long time.\nWhen the prophet looked on them with mindful heart,\nhe rebukes them and terrifies them, fearful as they are, with many words,\nsaying that they had come to spy out what supply of crops there was\nand what men held the rich lands under their rule.\nThey plead that they know no tricks and confess\nthat once twice six brothers under one father\nhad a conspicuous house; of all these one,\nthe last by birth, shares their father’s labours,\nbut another was long since gone to a famous death.\nThey were fleeing dire famine, hating the Canaanite land\nthat condemns the seed to thin yield,\nand asking for goods for sale and grain at a price.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1302 (CSEL 23:49lines 1302–1327–50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1302)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1328":{"o":"eloquitur uates, rectoris nomine iurans\nclaudendos dura iuuenes custodia, donec\ngermanum exhibeant, genitor quem mitis habebat.\nnectuntur trina nudatis sub cura tuentum\nlaxatique dehinc unum liquere tenendum.\nnec arca occulto rumpentes corda dolore\ncommemorant, quam iusta sibi discrimina surgant,\nquod fratrem inmeritum uetito transcribere pacto\nconisi sero poenas sub iudice pendant.\ningrauat haec dictis hostia uera renarrans,\nac scelus festinos sese nolente peractum.\nflectitur his uates germana et iurgia noscens\nluminibus tacitis conuersus flebile plangit.\nhaec inter media fratrum Symeona corona\naccipitur, fidus cunctis obeuntibus obses.\ntum petita sibi iuuenes frumenta capessunt\ninuentoque graues urgentur pondere muli.\niamque uiae medio, dum soluit uincula sacci,\nfratribus inuentos quidam dat uisere nummos,\nid cuncti faciunt, pretio mox deinde reperto\nmirantes summo procerem certamine laudant.\niamque adeo patriae subeuntes limina sedis\ngratatur reduces genitor unumque requirit.\nomnia cognoscens nummosque et dona capessit,\nconquestus grauiter alium iam defore natum.","t":"The prophet speaks, swearing by the ruler’s name,\nthat the young men must be shut in harsh custody until\nthey bring the brother whom their gentle father kept.\nThey are bound for three days, stripped, under the care of guards,\nand then, released, they left one to be held.\nAnd, their hearts breaking with hidden pain,\nthey recall how justly these dangers rise against them,\nbecause, having tried to sell their innocent brother by a forbidden bargain,\nthey pay the penalty late before a judge.\nOne of them makes it worse with words, recounting the true story,\nand that the crime was done in haste against his will.\nThe prophet is moved by this and, hearing his brothers’ reproaches,\nturning aside with silent eyes, he weeps tearfully.\nMeanwhile Simeon is taken from the middle of the circle of brothers,\na faithful hostage for all who were going.\nThen the young men take the grain they asked for,\nand the mules are pressed with the heavy weight they received.\nAnd now in the middle of the road, as he undoes the cords of his sack,\none lets his brothers see the coins he has found;\nall do the same; then, the price found,\nmarvelling, they praise the chief, vying with one another.\nAnd now, as they enter the threshold of their native home,\nthe father greets their return and asks for the one.\nLearning everything, he takes the coins and gifts,\ncomplaining heavily that another son is now gone.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1328 (CSEL 23:50lines 1328–1352–51; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1328)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1353":{"o":"accisi cum deinde cibi aduectaque farra\ncogebant rursus pretiis alimenta parare;\nsed reuocare gradum Memphis mens non erat ulli,\nni minimum fratrem secum pater ire iuberet.\nquem cum plura gemens nollet dimittere quoquam,\nRubenus fido germanum postulat ore,\nsecurus gemina committens pignora patri.\nprosequitur Iudas sese nec posse reuerti\nproclamat, rigidi testatus uerba Iosepi.\nhaec ubi grandaeuus genitor iam mitior hausit,\ndat iuuenem, largo perfundens flumine uultum.\nilli abeunt secumque uehunt leue olentia tura,\nincensum et guttam iungentes cum terebintho,\ninter odoratos portantes mella uapores,\net geminum pretium, consertus ne foret error,\ncondita quod clausis fuerant nomismata saccis.\nquos ubi conspicua uidit Iosepus in aula,\nimperat, ut laeta celebrent conuiuia secum.\nfidus uenere tamen trepidoque reatu\nconiciunt sese structa cum fraude uocatos,\nquod numerata prius sestertia dataque uati\nsarcinulis inposta suis non reddere quissent,\nse tamen exsortes furtorum cuncta referre,\nnec consuesse prius exterritus uiuere gaza.","t":"Then, when the food was used up and the grain they had brought\nforced them again to buy provisions,\nno one had a mind to turn his steps back to Memphis\nunless their father bade the youngest brother go with them.\nWhen, groaning much, he refused to send him anywhere,\nReuben asks for his brother with faithful mouth,\nconfidently pledging his two children to his father.\nJudah follows, declaring that they could not return,\nand bearing witness to the words of stern Joseph.\nWhen the aged father, now gentler, had taken this in,\nhe gives up the young man, bathing his face with a great flood of tears.\nThey go off and carry with them lightly scented frankincense,\njoining incense and gum with terebinth,\ncarrying honey amid fragrant vapours,\nand double the price, lest there be a lingering error,\nbecause the coins had been hidden in the closed sacks.\nWhen Joseph saw them in his conspicuous hall,\nhe orders them to celebrate a glad feast with him.\nYet they came in faith, and with trembling guilt\nthey suppose that they have been summoned by a contrived fraud,\nbecause they had not been able to return the sesterces counted out before\nand given to the prophet, which had been put in their bundles;\nyet, guiltless of theft, they were bringing everything back,\nnor had they been used, before this, to live in fear over money.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1353 (CSEL 23:51lines 1353–1376; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1353)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1377":{"o":"talia dicentes cohibet sermone minister\nseque docet nullis fraudatum noscere nummis:\nuerum siqua uiris donarint commoda lucrum,\nnec sua, nec uatis, nec regis dicere quemquam.\noccurrit cunctis Symeon seseque praesentat.\ndumque uiris lymphas, dum praebet pabula mulis,\ningreditur multo stipatus milite uates,\ncuius ad aspectum promunt pia munera fratres,\nille ubi per cunctos placido sermone cucurrit,\nperquirit, si firma pater uirtute ualeret.\nquem postquam incolumem dixere et uiuere recte,\nconfirmat cohaerere deo pro munere Gomorra,\nIosepus uatem semperque insistere rectis.\net ueluti notus Beniaminus non foret ipsi,\nconsultat iuuenes et promptim sanctum ; inde\ncommoda quaeque deum pueri pro laude precatur.\nnec gemitus cohibere ualet nec sistere fletus,\nsed tenero adfectu sese conclauibus quarum\nanxius et nimio quaerit fomenta dolori.\npost ubi discubuit, uictum posuere ministri.\nuescitur et facili prolectat pectora fatu\ndiuiduasque dapes uiritim exponere gaudens!\nporrigit et fratri maiorem dedicat uni.","t":"As they say this, the steward checks them with his words\nand tells them he knows he has been cheated of no coins:\nbut if any gain has brought the men benefit,\nlet no one call it his, nor the prophet’s, nor the king’s.\nSimeon meets them all and presents himself.\nAnd while he gives the men water and the mules fodder,\nthe prophet enters, thronged by many soldiers,\nat whose sight the brothers bring out their dutiful gifts.\nWhen he had gone through them all with calm speech,\nhe asks whether their father was well and firm in strength.\nAfter they said he was unharmed and living well,\nthey affirm that the prophet clings to God for his gift\nand always holds to what is right.\nAnd as if Benjamin were not known to him,\nJoseph questions the young men, and at once, holy as he is,\nprays God for every blessing for the boy, to God’s praise.\nHe cannot hold back his groans or stop his tears,\nbut, deeply moved, he seeks a chamber\nand, anxious, looks for relief for his excessive grief.\nAfter he reclined, the servants set out the food.\nHe eats and draws their hearts with easy speech,\nand, rejoicing to set out divided portions to each man,\nhe offers them, and assigns a larger one to one brother alone.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1377 (CSEL 23:51lines 1377–1399–52; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1377)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1400":{"o":"atque ubi iam saturis amor est conpressus edendi,\nut prius inposito presserunt pondere mulos,\nocculitur datum sueto iam more talentum\nIosepi imperio scyphusque absconditur ardens,\nin rebus, Beniamine, tuis pretiosior arte.\niamque iter ingressi non multis milibus absunt,\ncum subito incautos circumdat regia turma\nconprensosque tenet fulgentia pocula poscens:\nfuturum increpitant, quem nectant crimina, seruum.\nadnuitur cunctique simul sua pondera pandunt,\nquaesitum[que] et poculum retegunt fratremque relinquunt,\nIosepumque petunt et, quae sint gesta, loquentes\neuoluunt cari confestim iussa. parentis.\npermotus precibus uates discedere cunctos\nimperat ac sese Sennarum nomine infit.\ndefixi riguere metu tacitoque reatu\ndamnantes sese cohibent formidine uoces.\nprolectat mox ille reos propiusque uocatis\nexigit, ut dicta portent placitura parenti,\nquae sint, quae fuerint, quae mox uentura ferantur,\ninstigans migrare senem, gregibusque coactis\ndescendit Arabum colles uenientibus offert,\nut quia continuo tellus foret arida lustro,\npasceret agnatos prorumpere orbis omnes.","t":"And when, satisfied, their desire for food was quelled,\nand as before they had loaded the mules with weight,\nthe money given is hidden in what is now the usual way\nby Joseph’s order, and the gleaming cup is hidden\namong your things, Benjamin, more precious for its craftsmanship.\nAnd now, set out on their road, they are not many miles away\nwhen suddenly a royal troop surrounds them unawares\nand holds them seized, demanding the shining cup;\nthey threaten that the one whom the crime binds will be a slave.\nThey agree, and all together open their loads,\nand uncover the cup sought and leave their brother behind,\nand go to Joseph, and, telling what has happened,\nat once unroll the charges of their dear father.\nMoved by their pleas, the prophet orders all others to depart\nand begins to declare himself by name.\nThey stiffened, rooted with fear, and, in silent guilt\ncondemning themselves, hold back their voices in dread.\nSoon he coaxes the guilty men and, calling them nearer,\nrequires them to carry words that will please their father,\nwhat is, what has been, what is soon to come,\nurging the old man to migrate, and with his flocks gathered\nhe offers the hills of the Arabs to those who come,\nso that, since the land would be dry for five years more,\nhe might feed all his kin.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1400 (CSEL 23:52lines 1400–1423–53; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1400)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1424":{"o":"ista et dicta uiri laeto rex pectore noscit\nThara rogat carorum adsumere turbam,\net gratuita iubet Lothus tradere farra.\ndantur plaustra uiris, frumentum, pocula, panis,\nmagnaque gestantes desudant pondera muli.\ndantur quinque togae Beniamino et quinque parenti,\ntercentum et nummi signata incude notati.\nast alii iuuenes mercedis laude secunda\naccipiunt Melchae niuosae uestis amictus.\nhaec ubi cognouit genitor, data munera sedes\nrespirat patria festinus cedere terra\nAegyptumque petit, Arabum quae iungitur aruis,\neducens iuuenes patrio moderamine quinque\nsepties et denos, Genesis ut formula cauit.\nac dum festino properant conamine turbae,\nprocurrit Iudas et fratrum praeuolat agmen\nIosepumque docet haut longe abstare parentem.\nille alacris scandit currus atque obuius exit,\noptatam excipiens uiso genitore phalangem.\nregrediturque citus regisque effrenis ad aulam,\npastores properare ferens, ut turba carorum\ndiscretis degat fecundo in gramine terris.\nipse etiam uati rector Memphiticus instat\net iubet uberibus fratres conponere in aruis.","t":"The king learns of these words of the man with a glad heart,\nasks him to take in the crowd of his dear ones,\nand orders the grain to be handed over free.\nWagons are given to the men, grain, cups, bread,\nand the mules sweat carrying great loads.\nFive robes are given to Benjamin and five for his father,\nand three hundred coins struck with the stamp of the die.\nBut the other young men, with a lesser reward,\nreceive the covering of a snowy garment.\nWhen the father learned this, the gifts given, he breathes again,\nhastening to leave his native land,\nand makes for Egypt, which borders on the fields of the Arabs,\nleading out by a father’s rule young men, five\nand seventy, as the record of Genesis has set down.\nAnd while the crowds hurry with hasty effort,\nJudah runs ahead and flies before the band of brothers\nand tells Joseph that his father is not far off.\nHe eagerly mounts his chariot and goes out to meet him,\nreceiving the longed-for company when he saw his father.\nAnd he quickly returns to the hall of the king,\nsaying that shepherds are hastening, so that the crowd of his dear ones\nmight live apart in lands of fertile grass.\nThe Memphian ruler himself presses the prophet\nand orders him to settle his brothers in rich fields.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1424 (CSEL 23:53lines 1424–1447–54; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1424)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1448":{"o":"longaeuus post ista senex poscente Sarram\neloquitur sensim, quantis sit praeditus annis,\nquae domus et quae sit ueniendi causa Canopum.\neximiumque ducem multa cum laude fluuius\nnec minus interea uice munera mittit\ndigna suis magnumque duci dat ferre talentum,\nquo ditata fuit distractis frugibus aula.\natque ubi iam populis derant mercantibus aera,\ncertatim exhibitis gregibus Memphitica turba\nemit inops fruges. pretium taxante Iosepo.\nhis quoque nudati seque et sua praedia tradunt,\nsemine percepto, messes quo deinde uirerent.\nsola sacerdotum non est possessio dempta,\ntyranni gratuita duci placuit, non uendere farra.\ninditur hinc populo quintarum pensio frugum,\nquae manet et fixo servatur formula iure.\ninterea expletae perpendens tempora uitae,\nadiurat natum Iacobus uentura reuoluens.\nut sua maiorum conponat membra sepulchris.\nadnuit oranti subpostaque dextera coxae\ncontingit lentae spondens cacumina uirgae.\nconpositosque senex alterna in parte nepotes.\npermulcet dictis, dum sensim basia libat.\ncoepit lactare mirum! palma sacratur dextra gerit?,\nanterior natu laeua contingitur Ephrem.","t":"After this the long-lived old man, at Pharaoh’s request,\nspeaks slowly of how many years he has been granted,\nwhat his house is, and what the cause of his coming to Egypt.\nAnd he praises the excellent leader highly,\nwhile meanwhile Joseph sends gifts in return\nworthy of his own, and gives the leader a great talent to bear,\nwith which the hall was enriched when the crops were sold.\nAnd when the buying peoples lacked money,\nthe Memphian crowd, eagerly bringing out their flocks,\nbuys crops in their need, Joseph setting the price.\nStripped of these too, they hand over themselves and their estates,\nreceiving seed by which harvests might then grow green.\nOnly the priests’ possessions are not taken away;\nit pleased the leader to give them grain free, not to sell it.\nHence the payment of a fifth of the crops is imposed on the people,\nwhich remains, and the rule is kept by fixed right.\nMeanwhile Jacob, weighing the time of his completed life,\nmakes his son swear, turning over things to come,\nthat he would lay his limbs in the tombs of his ancestors.\nHe assents to the request and, with his right hand placed under the thigh,\npromising, touches the top of the pliant staff.\nAnd the old man soothes with words his grandsons, placed\non either side, while he gently gives them kisses.\n… the right hand is laid in blessing on the younger,\nwhile the elder by birth, Ephraim, is touched by the left.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1448 (CSEL 23:54lines 1448–1472–55; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1448)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.1473":{"o":"praescia mente senis senior seruire minori\ncogitur atque loco cedit spes prima secundo.\nquamlibet obliquas cupiens diducere palmas\nnon potuit reuocare tamen pia dicta Iosepus.\nac postquam pueris uatis rata commoda sanxit,\ndat Sicimam, gladiumque suo, dat spicula, nato,\nclarior ut cunctis sublimem scandat honorem.\ninde uocat natos et cunctis praemia didit\nloquellas mansura diu prolique natorum\ninconcessa prius longoque adiudicat aeuo.\nbis senasque tribus ipsorum ex nomine condit.\nomnibus explicitis, oculo iam captus utroque,\ndecessit solo terreno corpore ..... * * * uates\nmaestitiaeque dedit decies septena dierum\nlumina, dum functi ueneratur turba sepulchrum.\nquin etiam nati septem luxere diebus\nuberibus lacrimis, pacem reddente Iosepo\nfratribus innocuis, ueterem dum neglegit iram.\nipse etiam postquam iam centum triuerat annos\natque decem, iuncti metitus tempora leti\nfratribus effatur, uenturus quis foret ordo.\nquo reuocare gradum ualeant et linquere tumido:\ndummodo conpositos cineres atque ossa reportent\net flammas secum ueterum condenda fibris.\nsic demum longae post tempora candida uitae\ndecessit petiitque deum corpusque reliquit.","t":"by the old man’s foreknowing mind the elder is compelled\nto serve the younger, and the first hope yields its place to the second.\nThough Joseph wished to move the crossed hands apart,\nhe could not call back the pious words.\nAnd after the prophet had ratified the blessings for the boys,\nhe gives Shechem, and the sword, and the darts, to his son,\nso that, more glorious than all, he may climb to lofty honour.\nThen he calls his sons and distributes rewards to all,\nwords to endure long, and to his sons’ offspring\nassigns things not granted before, for a long age,\nand founds twice six tribes from their names.\nAll this done, already blind in both eyes,\nthe prophet departed, his earthly body alone …\nand gave seventy days\nto mourning, while the crowd venerates the tomb of the dead.\nMoreover his sons mourned for seven days\nwith abundant tears, Joseph restoring peace\nto his brothers as though innocent, as he passes over the old anger.\nHe himself too, after he had passed a hundred\nand ten years, measuring the time of approaching death,\ntells his brothers what order of events would come,\nby which they might retrace their steps and leave the swelling Nile,\nprovided they carry back his ashes and bones laid to rest\n…\nSo at last, after the bright times of a long life,\nhe departed, went to God, and left his body.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.1473 (CSEL 23:55lines 1473–1498–56; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-1473)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.151":{"o":"desine mordaci fratrem disperdere sensu,\nqui tibi ceu domino subiectus colla praebebit.\nnec tamen his fractus fratrem deducit ad arua\natque ubi deprensum deserto in gramine uidit,\nelidit geminis frendens pia guttura palmis.\nquod factum dominus caelo speculatus ab alto\ndisquirit, quonam terrarum degat Abelus?\nille negat positum custodem se fore fratris.\ncui deus effatur: \"Nonne uox sanguinis eius\nad me missa sonat celsumque ascendit ad axem?\"\nnosce igitur mansura tibi pro crimine tanto;\nnam modo quae maduit germani sanguine terra,\ninuiso maledicta tibi conmissa negabit\nsemina et absumptis fructum non proferet herbis,\ntorpidus ut multo conlidens membra tremore\nfunere ceu iuncto semper suspiria ducas.\nterritus ille gemit mortemque a numine poscit:\nquae tamen infenso non est concessa tonante :\nnam mala promeritus signo fit notus inusto,\nsternere ne ferro liceat cuicumque nocentem,\nne maius septena parent discrimina funus.\nilicet a facie domini ceu perditus exit,\naedibus obuersis Naidae in caespite terrae,\nnec minus ex natis, genetrix quos fida creauit,\nnomine primaeui sublimem condidit urbem.","t":"Cease to destroy your brother with a biting mind;\nhe will bow his neck to you, subject as to a lord.”\nYet not broken by these words, he leads his brother to the fields,\nand when he saw him caught in the lonely grass,\ngnashing his teeth, he crushes the innocent throat with both his hands.\nThe Lord, having watched the deed from high heaven,\nasks where on earth Abel is living.\nHe denies that he was set to be his brother’s keeper.\nGod says to him: “Does not the voice of his blood\nsound, sent to me, and rise up to the lofty sky?\nKnow therefore what will abide for you for so great a crime:\nfor the earth that just now was wet with your brother’s blood\nis cursed for you and will refuse the seeds entrusted to it\nand will bring forth no fruit, its plants consumed,\nso that, sluggish, your limbs shaking with much trembling,\nyou may always draw sighs as if joined to death.”\nTerrified, he groans and asks death from the divine power,\nbut it was not granted by the angry Thunderer;\nfor, having deserved evil, he is made known by a branded sign,\nso that no one may lay the guilty man low with the sword,\nlest sevenfold perils prepare a greater death.\nThen he goes out from the face of the Lord as one lost,\nturning from his home, onto the turf of the land of Nod,\nand from the sons whom his faithful wife bore\nhe founded a lofty city in the name of the firstborn.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.151 (CSEL 23:7lines 151–175; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-151)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.176":{"o":"Enochus Gaidada creat, hic deinde Malelum\nquo Mathusalamus sensim genitore sub auras\nexiit et longae produxit tempora uitae.\nast Lamech. dirum qui perculit ense Cainem,\nperpetitur caeso multum grauiora nocente;\ncrimina nam meritum decies septena cohercent.\nconiugibus hic facta gemens sese increpat ultro,\nquarum prima fuit Ada atque altera Sella.\nIabelum sed prima creat, qui pastor in aruis\ngramineis laeta pecudes pascebat in herba.\nIobalus quem deinde subit, qui musica plectra\nrepperit et uario concordes murmure chordas.\nTobelum mox Sella parit, cui fundere riuos\naeris erat moris ferrumque incude subactum\ndiuersis formare modis stridente camino:\nquem Noemma sequens uno genitore creata est.\nHaec inter uegetis Adam non languidus annis;\nSethum progenerat post mortem mitis Abelis.\nEnochum is deinde creat, cui candida corda\nlargitus dominus. hoc se poscente rogari\nadnuit et placidae suscepit munera mentis.\nnongentos igitur postquam conplerat Adamus\nter denosque annos, sopitus morte quieuit.\nlongaeuusque dehinc nongentos quinque per annos\nEnochus uixit, quem Cainanus adaequans\nquinque fuit tantum protentis longior annis.","t":"Enoch begets Irad; he then Mehujael,\nwith whom as father Methuselah in time came forth\ninto the air and drew out the times of a long life.\nBut Lamech, who struck down dread Cain with the sword,\nsuffers much heavier things than the guilty man he slew;\nfor ten times seven penalties restrain his crime.\nGroaning at the deed, he reproaches himself before his wives,\nof whom the first was Adah and the other Zillah.\nThe first bears Jabal, who as a shepherd in the grassy fields\nfed the flocks in the glad pasture.\nJubal follows him, who invented the musical plectrum\nand strings harmonious with varied murmur.\nSoon Zillah bears Tubal, whose custom it was to pour streams\nof bronze and to shape iron subdued on the anvil\nin diverse ways at the hissing furnace;\nafter him follows Naamah, born of the same father.\nMeanwhile Adam, not feeble in his vigorous years,\nbegets Seth after the death of gentle Abel.\nHe then begets Enosh, to whom the Lord granted\na pure heart; when Enosh called on him, he consented to be entreated\nand accepted the gifts of a peaceful mind.\nSo when Adam had completed nine hundred\nand thirty years, put to sleep by death, he rested.\nAnd then, long-lived, Enosh lived nine hundred and five years,\nand Kenan, equalling him,\nwas longer only by five extended years.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.176 (CSEL 23:7lines 176–201–8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-176)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.202":{"o":"iunior hoc iterum ter quinis decubat annis\nMalaleela senex: ter denis deinde Iaretus\natque tribus uixit longo constrictior aeuo.\nEnochus, cui cura fuit seruire potenti\net mentem sociare deo, sat iunior istis,\nter centum explicitis si quinque adiungere cures\nsexies et denos, subita caligine tectus\nabditur et domino multum miserante remotus\nfelicem placido uiuit cum tempore uitam.\nat Mathusalamus nongentos porrigit orbes\nsepties et denos, unum quis iungere ius est.\nLamechus, hoc patre satus. Noele creato\ntalia disseruit, dum uatum more futura\npraeuidet et sensus uenturum mittit in aeuum:\n\"Hic secura dabit nobis commercia uitae\net durum remouebit onus pacemque reducet,\nquae factis est pulsa malis nostroque reatu\ntristibus et dextris, quarum sulcata labore\nterra negat fructum, domino maledicta loquente.\"\nsepties hic centum uixit septemque per annos,\nseptuaginta super positis. ut summula poscit.\nhoc generante probis Noelus nobilis actis\neditur, innocuo daturus semina saeclo.\ntresque creat natos, Sethum Chamumque laphetumque,\nin numerum solitos mollitum tundere ferrum\net scintillantes promptim procudere massas.","t":"Younger than him again by fifteen years\nthe old man Mahalalel lies down; then Jared, by thirty\nand three, lived more confined in his long age.\nEnoch, whose care it was to serve the Mighty One\nand to join his mind to God, much younger than these —\nwhen three hundred years were unrolled, if you take care to add five\nand six times ten — covered in sudden darkness\nis hidden and, removed by the Lord’s great mercy,\nlives a happy life in a peaceful time.\nBut Methuselah stretches out nine hundred circling years\nand seven times ten, to which it is right to join one.\nLamech, sprung from this father, when Noah was born,\nspoke thus, as in the manner of prophets he foresees\nthe future and sends his mind into the age to come:\n“This one will give us secure dealings of life\nand remove the hard burden and bring back peace,\nwhich was driven out by evil deeds and our guilt\nand by sad right hands, by whose toil the furrowed\nearth refuses fruit, since the Lord spoke the curse.”\nHe lived seven hundred and seven years,\nwith seventy added on, as the sum requires.\nOf his begetting Noah, noble for upright deeds,\nis born, to give seed to an innocent age.\nAnd he begets three sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth,\nwho were used to beat softened iron in rhythm\nand readily to forge the sparkling masses.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.202 (CSEL 23:8lines 202–227–9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-202)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.228":{"o":"sexies hic uates centum iam uixerat annis.\ncum dominus, diri pertaesus crimina mundi\nmultimodosque hominum longa sub luce reatus,\nconstringit miserans prolixae incommoda uitae,\ninposuitque modum bis sexaginta per annos.\nuincere quem nullus posita sub lege ualeret.\nHaec inter sanctos lactat terrena uoluptas\ncaptiuosque tenet caelesti ex arce meantes;\ndum facies pulchro ridentes corpore cernunt\nfemineas placitisque nimis conplexibus haerent,\nprogenuere sibi torua cum mole gigantes:\nquorum criminibus domini patientia tandem\ncogitur offendi; longam dum concipit iram\natque dolet hominem dextra formante creatum\nsiderea, sancto permotus pectore fatur:\n\"Ius delere mihi mundi peccata nocentis\nfluctibus aequoreis totamque inuoluere terram\nhumanumque genus uastis mersare fluentis\nomnigenasque simul pecudes, quae laeta per agros\ngramina detondent. celsis dum collibus errant.\nserpentes nex una premat uolucresque ferasque,\nut mea deletis mitescat fraudibus ira.\"\naccipit ergo dei mandata ingentia Noe.\nduplicibus cameris arcam conpangere iussus,\nquae teneat uolucrum mansura ad germina nidos.","t":"The prophet had now lived six hundred years\nwhen the Lord, weary of the crimes of the dire world\nand of the manifold guilt of men under long light,\nin mercy restricts the troubles of a drawn-out life\nand set a limit of twice sixty years,\nwhich no one under the law laid down could surpass.\nMeanwhile earthly pleasure entices the holy ones\nand holds them captive as they come down from the heavenly citadel;\nwhile they behold women’s faces smiling with beautiful bodies\nand cling too closely to pleasing embraces,\nthey begot for themselves giants of grim bulk,\nby whose crimes the patience of the Lord is at last\nforced to take offence; while he conceives a long wrath\nand grieves that man was created by the forming of his starry\nright hand, moved in his holy breast he speaks:\n“It is my right to blot out the sins of the guilty world\nwith the waves of the sea and wrap the whole earth\nand plunge the human race in vast floods,\nand with them the herds of every kind that crop the glad\ngrass through the fields while they roam the high hills;\nlet one death crush serpents and birds and beasts,\nthat my wrath may grow mild when deceits are blotted out.”\nNoah therefore receives the mighty commands of God,\nordered to build an ark with double chambers,\nto hold the nests of birds, to remain for future seed.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.228 (CSEL 23:9lines 228–252–10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-228)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.25":{"o":"Haec ubi constituit diuina potentia iussu,\nrectorem inspiciens mundanis defore rebus,\nhaec memorat: \"Hominem nostris faciamus in unguem\nuultibus adsimilem, toto qui regnet in orbe.\"\net licet hunc solo posset componere uerbo,\nipse tamen sancta dignatus ducere dextra\ninspirat brutum diuino a pectore pectus.\nquem postquam effigie formatum ceu sua uidit,\nmetitur solum mordaces uoluere curas.\nilicet inriguo perfundit lumina somno,\nmollius ut uulsa formetur femina costa\natque artus mixta geminos substantia firmet,\ninditur et nomen, uitae quod dicitur, Aeuua.\nquapropter nati linquunt de more parentes\nconiugibusque suis positis cum sedibus haerent.\nseptima luce deus factorum fine quieuit,\nsacratam statuens uenturi ad gaudia saecli.\nilicet exhibitis animantum ex ordine turbis,\nuiritim cunctis nomen, quod permanet, indit\nAdamus, donata sibi prudentia sollers.\nquem deus adloquio, iunctam dignatur et Aeuuam:\n\"Crescite multimodo uentura in tempora partu,\nut polus et plenae uestro sint germine terrae,\nheredesque mei uarios decerpite fructus,\nquos nemora et pingui reddunt de caespite campi.\"","t":"When divine power had established these things by command,\nseeing that a ruler would be lacking to the world’s affairs,\nit says: “Let us make man to the exact pattern\nof our likeness, to reign in the whole world.”\nAnd though he could have formed him by a word alone,\nhe deigned nevertheless to shape him with his own holy right hand\nand breathes into the brute breast from the divine breast.\nWhen he saw him formed in an image like his own,\nhe judges that alone he would turn over gnawing cares.\nAt once he floods his eyes with watering sleep,\nso that from a rib plucked out a woman might be gently formed\nand a mingled substance might make the twin frames firm;\nand a name is given her that means life, Eve.\nTherefore children leave their parents, as is the custom,\nand cleave to their wives, settling their homes.\nOn the seventh light God rested at the end of his works,\nestablishing it as sacred for the joys of the age to come.\nThen, when the throngs of living things had been brought in order,\nto all, one by one, Adam gives a name that endures,\nskilled with the wisdom granted him.\nGod deigns to address him, and Eve joined with him:\n“Increase by manifold birth for times to come,\nthat the sky and the full lands may be filled with your offspring,\nand as my heirs pluck the various fruits\nthat the groves and the fields yield from the rich turf.”","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.25 (CSEL 23:2lines 25–49–3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-25)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.253":{"o":"ac, ne fissilibus dissultent robora rimis,\nunguine praepingui linuit bituminis arcam.\nipsa fuit plenas ter centum longa per ulnas,\nquinquaginta patens transuersam lata per aluum.\nat qua sublimi surgunt fastigia tecto,\nedita ter denis in caelum tollitur ulnis,\nassere quadrato, nullis cessura fluentis,\nad medium gestans facili cum cardine postes.\nhaec perfecta deus postquam despexit ab astris,\ntalibus adfatur mittendum in aequora uatem:\nScande citus, natique tui nataeque, fluentem\nfluctibus in tumidis cumbam, quia pectora uidi\niusta tibi dudumque mihi tua nota uoluntas\nemeruit maiora praesentibus; atque coactas\nclaude simul pecudes omni de germine mites\nseptenis paribus; inmundo de grege bina\nesse sines tecum, escamque his omnibus infers\natque tibi suetam, ne, cum per uasta fluenta\ncultio destiterit, pariter patiare molestam\nprouisis non ante cibis per glauca uehendus\nsalsa famem; nam clara polo cum lumina solis\nseptima prodierint, totos diffundere nimbos\ncardine ab aetherio cunctosque euoluere fontes\nadlapsu maiore paro, quo grandior undis\naestuet oceanus spumosos largius amnes\naccipiens fusoque oblimans omnia tractu.","t":"and, lest the timbers spring apart with splitting cracks,\nhe smeared the ark with very rich ointment of pitch.\nIt was three hundred full cubits long,\nopening fifty wide across its belly.\nBut where the gables rise with lofty roof,\nit is raised high toward heaven by thirty cubits,\nwith squared planks, to yield to no floods,\nbearing at the middle a door with an easy hinge.\nWhen God looked down from the stars on these things completed,\nhe addresses thus the prophet who is to be sent onto the waters:\n“Climb up quickly, and your sons and daughters,\ninto the boat to float on the swelling waves, because I have seen\nthat your heart is just, and your will, long known to me,\nhas deserved greater things than the present; and gather\nand shut in with you the gentle herds of every kind\nby sevens in pairs; of the unclean flock you shall let\ntwo be with you, and bring in food for all these\nand your own accustomed food, lest, when through the vast floods\ntillage has ceased, you too suffer troublesome hunger,\nborne over the grey-green salt waters\nwith no provisions laid up beforehand; for when the bright light of the sun\ncomes forth in the sky for the seventh time, I am preparing to pour out\nall the rainclouds from heaven’s pole and roll out all the springs\nwith a greater onrush, by which the ocean\nmay surge larger with waves, receiving foaming rivers more abundantly\nand smearing all things with mud in its poured-out course.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.253 (CSEL 23:10lines 253–278–11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-253)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.279":{"o":"namque quater denis iuncta cum nocte diebus\ngrandine perpetua nubes complebo madentes,\nut, quidquid uiuit, tumidis mergatur in undis.\nhaec ubi dicta, fiunt domini mandata uolente\nfestinoque sene, longo qui nobilis aeuo,\nsescentos agitans annos, se credidit undis\nconiunctosque simul natos natasque recepit,\nconfisus tenui quamuis foret abditus antro.\ninterea totos laxarunt nubila nimbos,\natque abyssus riguos dimisit in aequora fontes.\niamque quater denis stagnantur cuncta diebus.\nnon uolucres leuibus suspendunt corpora pinnis,\nnec fera celsiiugo deuitat marmora colle,\nomnia conduntur pelago, mors omnibus una est.\nnec minus interea tumidum suspensa per aequor\narca fluens clausum munibat pendula uatem\nuenturisque parens seruabat semina saeclis\nnaufragio secura suo. mox rarior aether\nnubibus in piceis coepit constringere nimbos.\niamque relabenti decrescit in aequore pontus\nac, postquam modico fluitabat flumine cumba,\nemittit senior nigrantem pectora coruum,\nqui leuibus pinnis uolucri dum flamine fertur,\nnon rediit, iusti suspendens uota prophetae.","t":"For through forty days joined with nights\nI will fill the dripping clouds with ceaseless rain,\nthat whatever lives may be drowned in the swelling waves.”\nWhen this was said, the Lord’s commands are carried out by the willing\nand eager old man, who, renowned for his long life,\npassing through six hundred years, entrusted himself to the waves\nand received with him his sons and daughters together,\ntrusting, though he was hidden in a slender cavern.\nMeanwhile the clouds let loose all their rains,\nand the deep sent its watering springs into the seas.\nAnd now for forty days all things are flooded.\nBirds do not hold up their bodies on light wings,\nnor does the beast escape the waters on a high-topped hill;\nall things are buried in the sea; there is one death for all.\nMeanwhile, hanging over the swelling sea,\nthe floating ark protected the shut-in prophet as it drifted\nand, like a parent, kept seed for the ages to come,\nsecure amid its own shipwreck. Soon the thinning air\nbegan to bind the rains in the pitch-black clouds.\nAnd now the sea decreases as the water ebbs,\nand when the boat was floating on a modest flood,\nthe old man sends out the raven, black of breast,\nwhich, while carried by the swift wind on light wings,\ndid not return, leaving the hopes of the just prophet in suspense.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.279 (CSEL 23:11lines 279–302–12; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-279)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.303":{"o":"post hunc albentem mittit per stagna columbam,\nquae super aequoreum campum defessa uolatu,\nnusquam nancta solum, uati se reddidit almo.\ncumque recurrentis fulgerent septima solis\nlumina. dimittit pinna plaudente uolucrem,\nquae nemore inuento ramis praepinguis oliuae\nora referta tulit, cum iam per sidera uesper\nsurgeret ac tremulo noctem praecurreret igni.\ninde iterum septem transcursis rite diebus\nmittitur in pelagus ales, quae lapsa meatu\nperceleri numquam sociae se reddidit aulae.\nsescentos igitur iam tum transgressus et unum\norbes erat uates. primo iam mense secuto\natque die mensis primo, cum libera tellus\nuisa aperire procul montes ac uoluere fumum,\nquos super undarat ter quinas pontus in ulnas:\ndecurso iam mense dehinc cum trina secundo\nlumina restarent, toto iam libera fluctu\nterra fuit propriumque ostendit laeta uirorem.\nergo ubi nudatis consedit montibus arca.\nAraratum qui nomen habent sermone uetusto,\nlaxat claustra senex reddens noua semina terrae\nexstruxitque libens sacraria festa tonanti\natque memor uoti adolet dum altaria flammis,\nhostia digna fuit, mites dum gignit odores,\nqui dominum coram laetis cum flatibus halant.","t":"After it he sends a white dove over the waters,\nwhich, worn out with flight over the watery plain,\nfinding ground nowhere, returned to the kindly prophet.\nAnd when the seventh light of the returning sun\nshone, he sends off the bird with clapping wing,\nwhich, having found a grove, brought back its beak filled\nwith branches of the rich olive, when evening was already\nrising among the stars and running ahead of night with trembling fire.\nThen again, when seven days had duly passed,\nthe bird is sent over the sea, and, gliding away on swift\ncourse, never returned to the house of its companions.\nSo the prophet had now passed six hundred and one\ncircling years. In the first month that followed,\non the first day of the month, when the freed earth\nseemed far off to open up the mountains and roll out mist —\nthe mountains over which the sea had flooded fifteen cubits deep —\nthen, when the second month had run its course but three\ndays remained, the earth was free of the whole flood\nand gladly showed its own green.\nSo when the ark settled on the bared mountains\nthat have the name Ararat in the ancient tongue,\nthe old man unbars the doors, giving back new seed to the earth,\nand gladly built a festive sanctuary to the Thunderer,\nand, mindful of his vow, as he burns the altars with flames,\nthe offering was worthy, since it produces gentle odours\nthat breathe in the Lord’s presence with glad breezes.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.303 (CSEL 23:12lines 303–328–13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-303)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.329":{"o":"tum. ne consimili pereat discrimine terra,\ndiluuium dominus uentura in tempora tollit,\nfestinos menses et tempora mobilis anni\ninrequieta iubens consuetos uoluere cursus:\nsed croceum tantum curuandum in nubibus arcum,\ncandida cum sudo praerorant sidera nimbo.\nprosequitur uatem domini benedictio mitem,\nscilicet ut cunctis. quae tellus et mare gignit,\nimperitet fidus, cum sint subiecta regenti;\nadmonitus pecudum carnes secernere mensis,\nquae non laxato uitam liquere cruore:\nidcirco quoniam multis haec indita mens est.\n\"Ast homo si ferro fuerit uel dente ferino\nperditus, inquiram,\" dixit, \"qui talia faxunt;\nsimilibus dant colla modis fusura cruorem.\"\ndiuidit hinc dominus placiti mox pignora uatis\nfecundasque iubet discretim sumere terras,\nut uacuum denso conplerent germine mundum.\naccipit hoc meritum domino donante propheta,\nvitis ut inuentor delibet candida uina.\nquem propere expletum cyathis somnoque grauatum\nderisit Chamus, de quo Channana iuuentus\nnascitur et proceris dixit de nomine gentem,\nfratribus ostentans nudatum membra parentem.\nqui pariles pietate tegunt uelantque iacentem:","t":"Then, lest the earth perish by a like disaster,\nthe Lord removes the flood for times to come,\ncommanding the hurrying months and the seasons of the moving year\nto roll their accustomed courses without rest,\nbut only the saffron bow to be bent in the clouds\nwhen the bright stars drip with rain from a clear sky.\nThe Lord’s blessing attends the gentle prophet,\nnamely that over all that earth and sea produce\nthe faithful man should rule, since they are subject to the ruler;\nhe is warned to keep from his tables the flesh of cattle\nthat have not given up their life with the blood let out,\nbecause in many creatures this soul is placed.\n“But if a man is killed by iron or a wild beast’s tooth,\nI will inquire,” he said, “of those who do such things;\nin like manner they shall give their necks to shed their blood.”\nThen the Lord divides the offspring of the prophet he favoured\nand orders them to take the fertile lands severally,\nto fill the empty world with dense offspring.\nThe prophet receives this reward by the Lord’s gift,\nto be the discoverer of the vine and to taste the white wine.\nWhen he was quickly filled with cups and heavy with sleep,\nHam mocked him — from him the Canaanite youth\nis born, and he named the people from his lofty name —\nshowing his father with his limbs bared to his brothers.\nThey with equal piety cover and veil him as he lies:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.329 (CSEL 23:13lines 329–353–14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-329)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.354":{"o":"tergoribus studio iunctis dum lumina uertunt,\nsopitum gessere senem, nec turpia dictu\nmembra uident, tenero flectentes colla pudore.\nid pietatis opus postquam iam mente serena\ncognouit uates, grassatum damnat in aeuum,\ngermanis faciens ut sit postremus et acro\nsubditus imperio fortesque exterritus oret.\ninde senex functus nongentos transit in annos,\nquinquies et denos, ut legis formula cauit.\ncuius progenies, properat dum ducere muros,\ncondidit eximias uastis suspectibus urbes.\ndumque operi instantes certatim moenia condunt,\nnominibus signant Tharsum Citiumque Rodumque,\nexstantes portis, fluctu quas adluit aequor.\nChannanus hinc nomen habet, hinc Sidona surgit,\ninde Iebusaeus, Cethaeo adiunctus Amorrus,\nGergessus ueget, Euaeus, Arucus, Asennus,\nSamarus, Aradius Orusque, et moenia quisquis\nGaza colit, Gomorra quibus Sodomaque iugantur\natque Adama et Sebona, quis iunctim Lasa cohaeret.\nquin etiam et Massam faciunt similemque Sopheram\ncelsiiugum et collem, nimbosas qui leuat arces,\nqua primum albentis prorumpit flamma diei.","t":"joining their backs with care while they turn their eyes away,\nthey carried the sleeping old man and do not see the limbs\nshameful to speak of, bending their necks with tender modesty.\nWhen the prophet, his mind now clear, came to know\nthat work of piety, he condemns the offender for all time,\nmaking him last among his brothers and subject\nto harsh rule, and, terrified, a suppliant of the strong.\nThen the old man, having lived, passes nine hundred years\nand fifty, as the record of the law has provided.\nHis descendants, hastening to raise walls,\nfounded outstanding cities of vast height.\nAnd while, pressing on with the work, they build walls in rivalry,\nthey mark them with names, Tarsus and Citium and Rhodes,\nstanding out with their gates, which the sea washes with its wave.\nHence Canaan has his name, hence Sidon rises,\nthence the Jebusite, the Amorite joined to the Hittite;\nthe Girgashite thrives, the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,\nthe Zemarite, the Arvadite and Orus, and whoever inhabits\nthe walls of Gaza, to which Gomorrah and Sodom are yoked,\nand Admah and Zeboiim, with which Lasha is joined.\nThey also make Mesha and, like it, Sephar,\nand the high-ridged hill that lifts its cloudy citadels\nwhere the flame of whitening day first bursts forth.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.354 (CSEL 23:14lines 354–376–15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-354)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.377":{"o":"corpore de quorum Nembrodus nascitur, acro\nvenatu adsuetus et membris grandibus exstans\natque deum gaudens contra se adtollere sanctum,\nheroum de more ferox, quos ardua ceruix\ninmensumque caput sublimes tollit in auras.\nhic Babylona locat Orichamque Archata et Acallam\nSinnacheros inter saltus; Assura deinde\ncondit et eximiam tectis Nineua locauit\net Robotham, Calchamque dehinc. Dasemata quarum\ndistinguit saltus medioque in limite surgit.\nDumque alacres certant et nomina moenibus indunt,\nin campum ueniunt Sennarum nomine dictum,\nmolitique cauas ad sidera tollere turres\nnon calcem faciunt, qua saxa inserta ligantur,\nsed lateres tosta lutei fornace coquuntur,\nut prius inmensis fulgerent moenia tectis,\nquam noua discretas faceret migratio gentes.\nbitumen pro calce fuit, quod uellere molli\nducitur et lento constringit corpore cautes.\nnamque penes cunctos sermonis conscia lingua\nper similes fatus et ciuica uerba locuta est.\ndenique descendit dominus et moenia uidit,\npraecipiens uarias raptim prorumpere uoces\ndiuersosque sonos. quis gentes quaeque locuntur.","t":"from their stock Nimrod is born, used to fierce\nhunting and towering with huge limbs,\nand rejoicing to raise himself against the holy God,\nfierce in the manner of the heroes, whose lofty neck\nand immense head raise them into the high air.\nHe founds Babylon and Erech, Accad and Calneh\namid the glades of Shinar; then he builds Asshur\nand set Nineveh, outstanding for its buildings,\nand Rehoboth, and then Calah; Resen\ndivides their glades and rises on the boundary between.\nAnd while they eagerly vie and give names to walls,\nthey come into a plain called by the name of Shinar,\nand, striving to raise hollow towers to the stars,\nthey make no lime by which the inserted stones are bound,\nbut bricks of clay are baked in a hot furnace,\nso that the walls might shine with immense buildings\nbefore a new migration made the nations separate.\nBitumen served for lime, which is drawn out with soft\nfleece and binds the stones with its clinging body.\nFor among all one tongue, sharing its speech,\nspoke with like utterance and common words.\nAt length the Lord came down and saw the walls,\ncommanding varied voices to burst forth suddenly\nand diverse sounds, with which the nations each speak.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.377 (CSEL 23:15lines 377–400–16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-377)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.401":{"o":"ilicet impletur positis cultoribus orbis\ndiuiduusque locus mox est Confusio dictus.\nHos sequitur, domino multum qui credidit. Abram.\nquem genuit prisco de nomine Thara uocatus.\niungitur et Lothus iuncto de sanguine frater.\nhi cum iam ualidi fierent pubentibus annis,\nconiugium iunxere sibi: Lod foedere Melchae\ngaudet, et Abramo ditescit coniuge Sarra,\nquae tamen ad senium duxit sine pignore uitam.\nhos Thara sollicite Chaldaeo de grege dempsit,\ndum Channana placent frondosis collibus arua.\nsed deus, electi qui sensum nosceret Abrae,\nimperat, ut sedes alia regione capessat:\n\"Heia age, festinans patriis te dimoue terris\ncognatasque domus et limina sueta relinque;\nnam procerem inmensae faciam te iam fore gentis.\ninsuper his addam, ut, te quicumque malignis\nuulnerat eloquiis, domini maledictus ab ore\ntristia quaeque ferat; at qui sermone benigno\ncommoda denarrat. sit laeto grandior actu.\"\nmutantur sedes, Sychemis castra locantur,\nquae dominus uati longum despondit in aeuum.\nillic deproperans sacratas suscitat aras:\nconscendens montem, fractas qui respuit undas\net rubicunda tumens prospectat lumina solis, ...","t":"At once the world is filled as its settlers are placed,\nand the divided place was soon called Confusion.\nAfter these follows Abram, who greatly believed the Lord,\nwhom his father, called Terah by an ancient name, begot.\nLot too is joined, a brother of kindred blood.\nWhen they had grown strong in the years of youth,\nthey took wives for themselves: Lot rejoices in a covenant\nwith Milcah, and Sarai enriches Abram as his wife,\nthough she led her life to old age without a child.\nTerah anxiously took them away from the Chaldean flock,\nsince the fields of Canaan with their leafy hills pleased him.\nBut God, who knew the mind of chosen Abram,\ncommands him to take up his seat in another region:\n“Come now, make haste and remove yourself from your father’s lands,\nand leave your kindred’s houses and your accustomed thresholds;\nfor I will now make you the chief of an immense nation.\nBesides this I will add that whoever wounds you\nwith malicious words, cursed from the mouth of the Lord,\nshall bear every grief; but whoever with kind speech\nrecounts your benefits, let him be greater in glad fortune.”\nTheir seats are changed; the camp is pitched at Shechem,\nwhich the Lord pledged to the prophet for a long age.\nThere, making haste, he raises sacred altars;\nclimbing a mountain that throws back the broken waves\nand, swelling, looks out on the ruddy light of the sun, …","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.401 (CSEL 23:16lines 401–425–17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-401)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.426":{"o":"hic etiam positis fundatur molibus altar\noraturque deus, sola cum deinde per arua\nuates agit, qua terra iacet disiuncta colonis;\nquae dum perpetuo uenis sitientibus aret,\nincussit ieiuna famem, cui cura cohaeret.\nhoc fecunda metu Nilotica rura petuntur.\net quia conspicuo canderet corpore Sarra,\nmandatur nullo nuptam se dicere uinclo,\nsed fore germanam, ne fors inmanibus ausis\neffrenis turbae zelum noxale marito\ngigneret atque aemulum tristis riualis haberet.\nhunc mirata quidem uenientem turba Canopi,\nomnimodis Sarram cupido de lumine lustrat.\natque ubi per proceres laudata et tradita regi est,\ndulcibus accipitur uotis uerbisque propheta.\nnon tamen inpositum uoluit rex aetheris illi;\nnam multis magnisque simul terroribus actum\nproturbat regem, noxalis qui reus ausi\nobiurgat procerem, germanam cur magis esse\ndixerit uxorem falsoque inluserit astu.\ninde iubet laetum nuptam deducere secum,\narmenti et quidquid patriis adduxerat oris.\nnamque deus seruo semper concordia fanti\ningentes census et maxima quaeque dicarat.","t":"here too an altar is founded with stones set in place,\nand God is prayed to; then through lonely fields\nthe prophet goes, where the land lies without settlers;\nand while it is parched in its ever-thirsting veins,\nthe barren land brought on famine, to which care clings.\nFrom this fear the fertile fields of the Nile are sought.\nAnd because Sarai was radiant with conspicuous beauty,\nshe is told to say that she is a bride bound by no tie\nbut his sister, lest by chance, with monstrous daring,\nthe unbridled crowd should conceive a guilty jealousy against her husband\nand she should have him as a grim rival’s competitor.\nThe crowd of Canopus marvelled at her as she came\nand in every way survey Sarai with desirous eyes.\nAnd when she was praised through the nobles and handed to the king,\nthe prophet is received with sweet wishes and words.\nYet the King of heaven did not will that she be given to him;\nfor with many and great terrors at once\nhe drives the king to distraction, who, charged with the guilty daring,\nrebukes the chief: why had he said that his wife\nwas rather his sister and mocked him with false cunning?\nThen he orders him gladly to lead his bride away with him,\nand whatever of the herd he had brought from his native shores.\nFor God had dedicated to his servant, whose words always agreed with his,\nhuge wealth and all the greatest things.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.426 (CSEL 23:17lines 426–449; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-426)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.450":{"o":"accipit et Lodus, quaecumque aduexerat illic,\net reduces patrias tandem sistuntur ad oras.\natque ibi dum gregibus intercursantibus errant,\npastores pecorum sese certamine pulsant,\npascua quod fetas artarent parua duorum.\nsed pater. indomitas cupiens conponere rixas.\noptulit, ut frater, quae uellet, sumeret arua.\nille libens paret, Iordanis litora poscens,\nqui fluuius dudum, Nili uice dum tumet undis,\namne superfuso campos ditabat opimos.\nChannanaea senex uenienti iugera sorte\naccipit et uirides sistit armenta per agros.\nsed non perpetuas licitum conponere sedes:\nnamque pater iussus terram lustrare tuendo.\nflammeus e celsis quam sol utrumque recurrens\naspicit aut gemini despectant usque triones,\npromissam generi tanto genitore creando.\ncuius qui numerum gestit conprendere fatu,\nstellarum citius turbas uel dicet harenae,\nquas pelagus dubio nonnumquam litore nudat.\ntendit et ad quercum prisco de nomine Mambram\nperpetuoque deo praecelsum dedicat altar.\nnec mora, diuiduos postquam concordia fratres\nfecerat optatos conponere regna per agros.","t":"Lot too receives whatever he had brought there,\nand returning they settle at last in their native lands.\nAnd there, while they wander with flocks running among one another,\nthe herdsmen of the cattle strike each other in quarrels,\nbecause the small pastures cramped the breeding flocks of the two.\nBut the father, desiring to settle the untamed quarrels,\noffered that his brother should take whatever fields he wished.\nHe gladly obeys, asking for the banks of the Jordan,\na river that long ago, swelling with waves like the Nile,\nenriched the fertile plains with its overflowing stream.\nThe old man receives the Canaanite acres by lot\nas he comes, and settles his herds through the green fields.\nBut he was not permitted to establish lasting seats;\nfor the father was ordered to survey with his gaze the land\nthat the fiery sun, returning, beholds on both sides\nor the twin Bears look down upon to its farthest bounds,\npromised to the race to be created by so great a father.\nWhoever longs to grasp its number in speech\nwill sooner tell the throngs of stars or of the sand\nthat the sea at times lays bare on its uncertain shore.\nHe goes also to the oak of ancient name, Mamre,\nand dedicates a lofty altar to the everlasting God.\nNo delay: after concord had made the brothers\nseparate, to establish their realms in their chosen fields,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.450 (CSEL 23:17lines 450–473–18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-450)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.474":{"o":"consurgunt reges numerosa ex gente quaterni\net Sodomam multo pugnaces milite uastant,\nquaternaeque acies bino bis principe fultae\nualle tenus Salsa ferrum per nubila torquent.\nquinque fugam capiunt linquentes bella tyranni\npraecipitique fuga frondosis montibus abdunt,\nquod potuit superesse neci; qui nomine uero\ndicuntur Ariocha, Dachar, Godolla Gomurus\natque etiam pulchris inhians Amarphalus annis.\nhaec inter, quae multa fiunt discrimine belli,\nLod etiam capitur tota cum stirpe domoque.\nquod ubi tristifico narrauit nuntius ore,\nconsurgit uates, seruorum de grege multo\nter centum famulos, nouies bis auctius addens,\nad bellum dux ipse ciet ferrumque retractat.\nnocte super media nil iam metuentibus instat\nuictoresque fugat multosque interficit hostes.\nquin etiam fratrem tanto discrimine demptum\naccipit et praedam lato trahit agmine secum.\nexcipitur laeta Sodomorum laude procorum\npontificisque dei, sancto qui nobilis actu, —\nMelchisedechus erat, princeps rectorque Salemae —\net benedixit ei panem uinumque praesentans —\net decimos fructus Abrami ex munere sumpsit. —\nis petit, ut captos dignetur reddere uictor,\ncetera pro meritis belli sub lege laturus.","t":"four kings rise up from a numerous people\nand, warlike, lay Sodom waste with many soldiers,\nand four battle lines, each led by its prince,\nhurl iron through the clouds as far as the Salt valley.\nThe five tyrants take flight, leaving the war,\nand in headlong flight hide on the leafy mountains\nwhat could survive death; the others by their true names\nare called Arioch, Tidal, Chedorlaomer,\nand Amraphel too, greedy for years of glory.\nAmid the many things that happen in the crisis of war,\nLot too is captured with all his kin and household.\nWhen a messenger told this with grief-bringing mouth,\nthe prophet rises, and from his large flock of servants\nthree hundred retainers, adding nine times two more,\nhe himself as leader calls to war and takes up the sword again.\nAt midnight he falls on them as they now fear nothing,\nrouts the victors and kills many enemies.\nMoreover he receives his brother, rescued from such great peril,\nand draws the spoil with him in a broad column.\nHe is welcomed with glad praise by the nobles of Sodom\nand by the priest of God, renowned for holy deeds —\nit was Melchizedek, prince and ruler of Salem —\nand he blessed him, presenting bread and wine,\nand received from Abram as a gift a tenth of the fruits.\nThe other asks that as victor he deign to return the captives,\nhimself to take the rest as his due under the law of war.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.474 (CSEL 23:18lines 474–498–19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-474)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.499":{"o":"sed contenta suo uictrix moderamine uirtus\naccipit optatum toto pro munere fratrem.\nmox sopita deus inlustrans corda prophetae\npraecipit. ut cuncta uacuet formidine pectus,\nquandoquidem inuictae tutus sit tegmine dextrae.\nille alacer concessa sibi licentia fatur:\n\"Quid mihi pro tanta praestant tua dona loquella?\nnam coniuncta quatit fessum longaeua senectus,\nnec datur emeritum post mortem linquere natum.\net quia nobilibus thalamis mihi germina non sunt,\ndegener heres erit nobis, quem serua creauit.\"\nconfirmat uatem dominus, dum talia fatur:\n\"Ne time confidens; seruus tibi non erit heres.\nnam si nosse ualet numero carentia quisquam\nsidera uel totas pelagi percurrere harenas,\nis poterit prolem solus numerare putando,\nquae praestanda tibi est, totus qua tenditur orbis,\nnasceturque tuo de semine, qui tua cernat\nfilius atque etiam natus sit regis aeterni:\nnamque ego sum dominus caelorum conditor, et te\nauxilio tutum Chaldaea ex gente reduxi.\"\ncredidit ista senex nec quidquam defore uerbis\nmetitur domini sincero acumine cordis\nsubnixusque rogat, placidis dum supplicat orsis,\nsigna dei quae mente gerat, quae corde sequatur,\nmunere pro tanto, quo natum gignat inerti\ncorpore, iam gelidis decursa ob tempora membris.","t":"But victorious valour, content with its own restraint,\naccepts as its whole reward the brother it longed for.\nSoon God, enlightening the prophet’s sleeping heart,\ncommands him to empty his breast of all fear,\nsince he is safe under the cover of an unconquered right hand.\nHe, eager at the freedom granted him, speaks:\n“What do your gifts offer me for so great a word?\nFor long old age, my companion, shakes my weary frame,\nnor is it given me, my service done, to leave a son after my death.\nAnd because I have no offspring from a noble marriage bed,\na base-born heir will be ours, whom a slave woman bore.”\nThe Lord strengthens the prophet as he speaks thus:\n“Do not fear; trust me; a slave will not be your heir.\nFor if anyone can know the stars that lack number\nor run through all the sands of the sea,\nhe alone will be able to number by reckoning the offspring\nthat is to be given you, as far as the whole world stretches;\nand from your seed one will be born who will see your days,\na son who is also the Son of the eternal King;\nfor I am the Lord, founder of the heavens, and I brought you back\nsafe by my help from the Chaldean nation.”\nThe old man believed this, and with the sincere keenness of his heart\njudges that nothing will be lacking to the Lord’s words,\nand, relying on him, asks, as he prays with peaceful words,\nfor signs of God to bear in mind and follow in his heart,\nin return for so great a gift, by which he might beget a son with a sluggish\nbody, his limbs now cold and his time run out.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.499 (CSEL 23:19lines 499–525–20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-499)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.50":{"o":"Haec ubi disseruit, laeta paradisus in aula\ninstruitur primique adspectat lumina solis.\ngignitur haec inter pomis letalibus arbos\nconiunctum generans uitae mortisque saporem.\naedibus in mediis puro fluit agmine flumen.\nquod rigat insignes liquidis de fluctibus hortos.\nquadrifidosque secat undanti ex fonte meatus.\nPhisonus auriferis praediues fluctuat undis\nconspicuasque terit rauco de gurgite gemmas —\nprasinus huic nomen, illi est carbunculus ardens —\nperspicuisque uadis terram praelambit Euilam.\npost hunc Aethiopas Geon adlapsus opimat,\ntertius est Tigris, Euphrati adiunctus amoeno,\nAssyriam celeri discretim flumine sulcans.\nhic positus custos Adamus cum coniuge fida\natque opifex tali formatur uoce tonantis:\n\"Ne trepidate simul licitos praecerpere fructus,\nquos nemus intonsum ramo frondente creauit,\nsolliciti, ne forte malum noxale legatis,\nquod uiret ex gemino discreta ad munia suco.\"\nnec minus interea caecos nox alta tenebat,\nac modo formatos uestis non texerat artus.\nHas inter sedes et bacis mitibus hortos\nspumeus astuto uincens animalia sensu\nserpebat tacite spiris frigentibus anguis;","t":"When he had spoken these things, paradise is furnished as a glad court\nand looks upon the light of the first sun.\nAmong these a tree is begotten with deadly fruit,\nproducing a taste of life and death joined together.\nIn the midst of the dwellings a river flows with a pure stream,\nwhich waters the splendid gardens with its liquid waves\nand cuts four-forked channels from its welling spring.\nThe Pishon, very rich, flows with gold-bearing waves\nand wears down conspicuous gems in its roaring flood —\nthe green prase is the name of one, of the other the glowing carbuncle —\nand with clear shallows laps the land of Havilah.\nAfter it the Gihon, gliding by, enriches the Ethiopians;\nthe third is the Tigris, joined to the pleasant Euphrates,\nfurrowing Assyria apart with its swift stream.\nHere Adam is set as keeper with his faithful wife,\nand as worker he is instructed by such a voice of the Thunderer:\n“Do not be afraid, both of you, to pluck the permitted fruits\nthat the unshorn grove has produced on its leafy branch,\nbut take care that you do not gather the guilty fruit\nthat flourishes with a twofold juice for separate ends.”\nMeanwhile deep night still held them blind,\nand no garment yet covered the limbs just formed.\nAmong these dwellings and gardens of mellow berries\nthe foaming serpent, surpassing the animals in cunning,\nwas creeping silently in cold coils;","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.50 (CSEL 23:3lines 50–74–4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-50)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.526":{"o":"admonitus uitulam trimi iam temporis aptat,\nconiungens alacrem torua cum fronte iuuencum,\nuerbecem caprumque dehinc hirtamque capellam,\ncolumbas pariles, simili cum turture iunctas.\ncorpora mox pecudum gemina in diuortia findit,\ninlaesas tota dimittens carne uolucres;\nomnia disponit sacrisque altaribus aptat.\nseque locat propter, sensu uersutus et aure.\necce autem prima sub tempora noctis opacae\ncandida sanctifici terrentur pectora uatis\nnigrantesque ruunt confusa luce tenebrae.\nhis super attonitus domini solacia sumit,\ndum noua uenturae praenoscit semina gentis,\nper uarios casus duro sub rege locandae\nAegypti, cui nomen erit Pharaonis acerbi.\n\"Namque quater centum dominis subiecta per annos\nseruiet, ad terras rursus reuocanda feraces;\nac uice mutata, quae quondam serua tremebat,\nsceptra reget, ualida gentes uirtute cohercens.\nat tu, cum fuerit metati terminus aeui,\nsedibus in patriis functus mandabere busto.\nnam populus infensa sibi de sede reuulsus\nhuc ueniet, domibus ueterum donandus auorum.","t":"Warned, he makes ready a heifer now three years old,\njoining a lively bullock of grim brow,\nthen a ram and a he-goat and a shaggy she-goat,\na pair of doves joined with a like turtledove.\nSoon he splits the bodies of the cattle into two parts,\nleaving the birds whole in all their flesh;\nhe arranges everything and fits it to the sacred altars,\nand places himself nearby, alert in mind and ear.\nBut see, at the first hour of dark night\nthe bright breast of the holy prophet is terrified,\nand blackening darkness rushes in, confounding the light.\nAstonished at this, he takes comfort from the Lord,\nas he foreknows the new seed of the nation to come,\nto be placed through various misfortunes under a hard king\nof Egypt, whose name will be that of the bitter Pharaoh.\n“For four hundred years it will serve, subject to masters,\nto be called back again to fruitful lands;\nand, the turn reversed, the nation that once trembled as a slave\nwill wield the sceptre, restraining nations with strong valour.\nBut you, when the end of your measured age has come,\nhaving lived your life, will be committed to the tomb in your fathers’ seats.\nFor the people, torn away from a seat hostile to it,\nwill come here, to be given the homes of their ancient forefathers.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.526 (CSEL 23:20lines 526–548–21; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-526)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.549":{"o":"nam qua Niliacis gaudet nunc incola terris\net celer Euphratis Syrorum praenatat orbes,\nCenaeos populos Cenezaeosque tenebunt,\nChedmoneos, Chettos iuncta cum gente Phereza.\net Raphana, cui manus est Iebusa cohaerens,\ndilectaque sibi pellentur sede Chananni.\nquin et Amorraeus, Gergesso extrusus amico,\nsemianimis possessa dabit uenientibus arua.\"\nquae cum sancta dei prompsissent uerba prophetae,\nsole sub occiduo clarum dat fulmine signum.\nnam uelut undanti ferueret flamma camino,\ncaesarum pecudum uisa est delambere carnes.\nInterea steriles iam pridem fessa per annos\nperdiderat etiam uotum iam Sarra parentis,\net quia praegelida partum non poneret aluo,\nad secunda suum coepit lactare maritum ;\ngaudia et inflexum cogit consortia seruae\nnoscere, quo saltim genitor sit pignore uili.\nilicet in thalamos Aegyptia ducitur Agar,\nIsmahelumque nothum fecunda gignit ab aluo.\nquae cum seruili dominam contemneret astu.\nuerberibus duris adflicta et saucia fugit.\nac dum uicino tegeret se deuia fonte,\nnuntius aetherio descendit culmine caeli\nconsultamque prius dominorum mittit ad aedes,\nquin etiam multo gaudentem munere donat.","t":"For where the inhabitant now rejoices in the lands of the Nile,\nand where the swift Euphrates swims past the regions of the Syrians,\nthey will hold the Kenite and the Kenizzite peoples,\nthe Kadmonites, the Hittites with the joined nation of the Perizzites,\nand the Rephaim, to whom the band of the Jebusites clings,\nand the Canaanites will be driven from the seat they love;\nand the Amorite too, thrust out with his friend the Girgashite,\nhalf-dead, will give up the fields he possessed to those who come.”\nWhen the holy words of God had declared these things to the prophet,\nunder the setting sun he gives a clear sign by a thunderbolt.\nFor as if flame were seething in a surging furnace,\nit seemed to lick up the flesh of the slaughtered cattle.\nMeanwhile Sarai, worn out through long barren years,\nhad lost even the hope of being a parent,\nand because she would not bring forth a child from her ice-cold womb,\nshe began to coax her husband toward a second bed\nand compels him, reluctant, to know the joys and partnership of the slave woman,\nso that he might at least be a father by a lowly pledge.\nAt once the Egyptian Hagar is led into the bridal chamber\nand from her fertile womb bears Ishmael, a bastard.\nWhen she despised her mistress with slavish cunning,\nafflicted and wounded by harsh blows, she fled.\nAnd while she hid out of the way by a nearby spring,\na messenger came down from the heavenly height of the sky\nand sends her, counselled, back to her masters’ house,\nand also endows her, rejoicing, with a great gift.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.549 (CSEL 23:21lines 549–574–22; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-549)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.575":{"o":"quae quia conspicuo fulgentem lumine sanctum\nuiderat, a simili narrauit nomine fontem.\niamque nouem denos nouiesque exegerat annos\nAbramus uates, cum se iam iamque parentem\nagnoscit nati magno de munere dandi,\ntestamenta dei cui sunt concordia summi,\ngentibus innumeris genitor ductorque futurus.\npercipiens placidas per grandia tempora sedes.\nquin etiam solito de nomine grandior exit,\ndura decus adiectum uocalis littera ducit,\net Sara quae fuerat, mandatur Sarra uocari.\nquin etiam patris Ismahelus pro prece diues,\nbis senos princeps populos generatque regitque.\npost haec gesta senex. cum sol octauus adesset,\nmaribus exhibitis adimit praeputia ferro.\nadiungens pariter quoscumque ex plebe seorsa.\ninde ubi iam tempus promissi muneris instat,\nsoluitur in tremulos uultu crispante cachinnos,\ndum tacitus secum promissa ingentia uoluit:\n\"Posse deum credes, quidquid non extitit umquam,\ncondere et infractos robur generare per artus?\"\nScandebat medium iam sol flagrantior axem,\nmagnificusque senex frigus captabat in umbra,\ncum subito iuuenes pariter tris adfore cernit.\nsedulus in cunctos unum plus ambit et orat.","t":"And because she had seen the holy one shining with conspicuous light,\nshe named the spring by a like name.\nAnd now the prophet Abram had completed ninety\nand nine years, when he now recognizes himself\nas about to be a parent through the great gift of a son,\none with whom the covenants of the most high God agree,\nto be the father and leader of innumerable nations,\nreceiving peaceful seats through great ages.\nMoreover he comes forth greater than his accustomed name:\na vowel brings added honour to the hard name,\nand she who had been Sara is ordered to be called Sarra.\nMoreover Ishmael, enriched at his father’s prayer,\nas prince begets and rules twice six peoples.\nAfter these deeds the old man, when the eighth sun was at hand,\ntakes away with iron the foreskins of the males brought before him,\nadding likewise all who were of the people apart.\nThen, when the time of the promised gift is at hand,\nhe dissolves into trembling laughter with wrinkling face,\nas he silently turns over the mighty promises in himself:\n“Will you believe that God can found what never existed\nand bring forth strength through broken limbs?”\nNow the sun, more blazing, was climbing the middle of the sky,\nand the great old man was catching the cool in the shade,\nwhen suddenly he sees three young men standing there together.\nAttentive to them all, he courts one above the rest and begs","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.575 (CSEL 23:22lines 575–599–23; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-575)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.600":{"o":"ne puerum celeri linquat, dum praeterit, actu\npacificusque suae dignetur tegmina quercus\natque pedes geminos frigenti ut perluat unda\nac positos panes mensae dignetur amicae.\nadnuitur iussaque citus ueneranda facessit.\nipse etiam properans sese dat Sarra uideri\nmensurasque libens ternas ex polline profert,\nquas dederat tosto cinerum torrere uapore.\ntum uitulus tumida procuruans. cornua fronte\ndeligitur, nullo fuscatus tergora naeuo,\net modo constricti ponuntur fercula lactis.\ndumque deum trina positum sub imagine pascit,\ndulcia sanctificis delibat gaudia dictis:\n\"Quid rerum nunc Sarra gerit? (namque abdita tectis\ntunc erat) et coeptas iterat lux uera loquellas:\n\"Euge memor uates. pleno non setius anno\nmater erit;\" cum laeta procul sub talia risit\nfemina et annoso desperat corpore partum.\nquaeritur haec inter. fuerit quae causa cachinni?\nilla negat facili concussam se fore risu,\ndum timet et tacito uoluit sub pectore culpam.\nconsurgunt iuuenes parili fulgore decentes\net Sodomam toto subiectam lumine uisunt.\ntum dominus uati nil promptum non fore passus,\neloquitur, quae causa graues se ducat ad urbes:","t":"that he not leave his servant behind as he passes swiftly by,\nbut peaceably deign to accept the shelter of his oak,\nand let him wash his two feet with cool water,\nand deign to take the loaves set on a friendly table.\nHe consents, and Abraham swiftly carries out the venerable commands.\nSarah too, making haste, lets herself be seen\nand gladly brings out three measures of fine flour,\nwhich she had given to the heat of the embers to bake.\nThen a calf, curving its horns on a swelling brow,\nis chosen, its back darkened by no spot,\nand dishes of curdled milk are just set out.\nAnd while he feeds God, set before him under a threefold image,\nhe tastes sweet joys from the hallowed words:\n“What is Sarah doing now?” (for she was then\nhidden in the house) and the true Light continues the words begun:\n“Rejoice, mindful prophet: in a full year no less\nshe will be a mother”; at this the woman, far off, laughed with glee\nand despairs of childbirth in her aged body.\nMeanwhile it is asked what was the cause of the laughter.\nShe denies that she was shaken by easy laughter,\nsince she fears and turns her fault over in her silent breast.\nThe young men rise, comely with equal brightness,\nand view Sodom lying below in full light.\nThen the Lord, not suffering anything to be hidden from the prophet,\ndeclares what cause leads him to the heavy-laden cities:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.600 (CSEL 23:23lines 600–624–24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-600)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.625":{"o":"\"Clamore immodico Sodomae iunctaeque Gomorrae\nexcitus ueni uerumque inuisere curo,\"\nut. quod turba nocens, quod uox horrenda laborat,\noppida bina simul caelesti ex fulmine flagrent*.\nhic trepidus uates famulo sermone poposcit.\nnoxia qui numerus sanctorum moenia seruet?\nquinquies ex denis capiens primordia summae,\na bis quinque uiris cognoscit tegmine forti\noppressum uitiis populum uitare ruinam.\nilicet ad Sodomam ueniunt duo. Natus et Altor,\nhesperus umenti cum iam prorumperet igni.\nillic pro foribus Lodus de more sedebat.\ncumque uiros simili lustrasset corpore claros,\npronus adoratos consueta ad limina duxit,\noptantes media potius habitare platea.\nazyma quos tenui de polline candida pascit.\nsopitaque dehinc conponunt membra cubili.\necce furens tota procurrit turba Gomorrae.\nseditione truci circumdans atria Lotis,\natque uiros poscens tumido dilitigat ore.\nille memor pacis temptat mollire frementes\natque etiam natas cupide dementibus offert,\nut licito potius luxu peruersa uoluptas\naestuet. a simili disiungens turpia sexu.\nsed nil dicta mouent. franguntur limina ferro.","t":"“Roused by the immoderate outcry of Sodom and of Gomorrah joined with it,\nI have come and take care to see the truth,”\nso that, because the guilty crowd and the horrible outcry are so laden,\nthe two towns together might burn with heaven’s lightning.\nHere the trembling prophet asked in a servant’s words\nwhat number of holy men would save the guilty walls.\nBeginning his sum at fifty,\nhe learns, down to ten men, that under their strong protection\na people overwhelmed by vices would escape ruin.\nAt once two come to Sodom, the Son and the Nourisher,\nwhen the evening star was already bursting forth with moist fire.\nThere Lot was sitting before the doors, as was his custom.\nAnd when he had looked on the men, glorious with like bodies,\nbowing low he led those he revered to his own threshold,\nthough they wished rather to stay in the middle of the street.\nHe feeds them with white unleavened bread of fine flour,\nand then they lay their limbs to sleep on a couch.\nSee, the whole crowd of Gomorrah runs forward raging,\nsurrounding Lot’s halls with savage uproar,\nand, demanding the men, it quarrels with swollen mouth.\nHe, mindful of peace, tries to soften the raging men\nand even eagerly offers his daughters to the madmen,\nso that perverse pleasure might rather burn with a lawful lust,\nseparating shameful acts from the same sex.\nBut the words move nothing. The doors are broken with iron.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.625 (CSEL 23:24lines 625–649–25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-625)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.650":{"o":"ac dum se glomerant, dum fortia claustra reuellunt,\nlumina saepta sibi piceis gemuere tenebris.\nhis actis, auferre procul sua pignora iussus,\ninuitat generos sensu torpente negantes.\nquod tamen adsiduo potuit mens blanda rogare.\neduxit natas coram genetrice sequentes.\nac dum progreditur, dum scandit culmina collis\noppositi secumque putat, quid deinde sequatur,\nfemina postergum positas dum respicit arces,\ndiriguit. speciemque salis pro corpore sumpsit.\nille subit celsae securus tecta Segorae.\nmox fragor horrisono de sidere fulmina torquet\nsulpureaeque ruunt olido cum turbine flammae,\nquae pariter muros atque ardua culmina lambunt.\nomnibus in cinerem celeri cum labe reuulsis\ncernebat rutilo surgentes uertice flammas\neminus Abramus, memori cum pectore tractans\nin uerbis domini numquam se adiungere mendum.\nnec minus et Lodus tuta conpostus in aula\nsolamen tenero natis praestabat amore,\nquae sine coniugibus nequibant edere prolem.\nhae, cum perspicerent sublatum germinis usum\nmaternumque decus solo genitore relicto,\nconponunt epulas ac promunt uina parenti,\nnescius ut uetitum natarum nosceret usum.","t":"And while they crowd together and tear away the strong bars,\ntheir eyes, walled in, groaned in pitch-black darkness.\nThis done, ordered to take his dear ones far away,\nhe invites his sons-in-law, who refuse with sluggish mind.\nYet, as far as his coaxing mind could obtain by constant asking,\nhe led out his daughters, following with their mother.\nAnd while he goes forward and climbs the summit of the hill\nopposite and ponders with himself what will follow next,\nthe woman, looking back at the citadels set behind,\nstiffened and took a form of salt for a body.\nHe, secure, enters the roofs of lofty Zoar.\nSoon a crash from the horrid-sounding sky hurls thunderbolts,\nand sulphurous flames rush down with a stinking whirlwind,\nlicking alike the walls and the lofty roofs.\nWhen all had been swept into ash by swift ruin,\nAbraham saw from afar the flames rising with ruddy peak,\npondering with mindful heart\nthat no falsehood is ever joined to the words of the Lord.\nAnd Lot too, settled in a safe hall,\noffered comfort with tender love to his daughters,\nwho without husbands could not bring forth offspring.\nThey, when they saw the means of offspring taken away\nand the honour of motherhood left to their father alone,\nprepare feasts and bring out wine for their father,\nso that, unknowing, he might have the forbidden intercourse with his daughters.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.650 (CSEL 23:25lines 650–674–26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-650)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.675":{"o":"nec mora, femineis concrescit sarcina fibris\net parili ambarum uitalia fomite turgent.\nprima creat puerum patrio sermone Moabum,\naltera disparibus Ammanum nuncupat orsis.\nhic pater Ammorum, genitor Moabitibus ille est.\nInterea excedit positis de sedibus Abram\net Gerarum ad terras socia cum coniuge transit.\nhic Abimelechus cupiens consortia Sarrae\nprincipis arbitrio (germanam nam fore uates\ndixerat eximius, fraudem ne forma pararet\nconiugis innocuo, riuales dum cauet iras)\nnec tamen eualuit ualidis terroribus actus.\nqui mentem adficiunt, quotiens peruersa libido est:\nnam deus inmisso torsit lictore tyrannum,\nqui cum terrifico rupisset somnia uisu,\nprosequitur trepidus uatem uix mente reuersa,\ncui Sarra sit dicta soror, ceu nulla mariti\nuincla ligent nuptam, quae sit coniuncta prophetae.\nille docet causas seseque a crimine purgat,\nmentitus nihilum; patris nam germine creta\nSarra fuit. iuncta deducens linea sanguem.\nhaec ubi constiterant, rector dat mille talenta\net famulos; his molle pecus armentaque iungit.\niugera quin etiam latos diffusa per agros,\ndummodo promeritum lenirent dona reatum.","t":"Without delay a burden grows in the women’s wombs,\nand the bodies of both swell with an equal kindling.\nThe first bears a boy, Moab in their father’s speech;\nthe other names Ammon with a different beginning.\nThis one is the father of the Ammonites, that one the begetter of the Moabites.\nMeanwhile Abraham departs from the seats he had set\nand crosses to the lands of Gerar with his wife his partner.\nHere Abimelech, desiring union with Sarah\nby the prince’s will (for the eminent prophet had said\nshe was his sister, lest his wife’s beauty should prepare a snare\nfor him, innocent as he was, as he guards against a rival’s anger),\nyet could not, driven back by strong terrors,\nwhich assail the mind whenever lust is perverse:\nfor God tormented the tyrant by sending an avenger,\nwho broke his dreams with a terrifying vision;\nthe king, trembling, his mind scarcely recovered, pursues the prophet,\nasking why Sarah was called his sister, as though no bonds of a husband\nbound the bride, when she was joined to the prophet.\nHe explains the reasons and clears himself of crime,\nhaving lied in nothing; for Sarah was born\nof his father’s seed, a line drawing a shared blood.\nWhen these things were settled, the ruler gives a thousand talents\nand servants; to these he joins soft flock and herds,\nand acres too, spread through the broad fields,\nif only gifts might soften the guilt he had incurred.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.675 (CSEL 23:26lines 675–699–27; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-675)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.700":{"o":"namque domus regis admissa piacula pendens,\nagmine morborum pariter grassante per omnes.\ngermina femineis dudum decusserat aluis.\nuerum ubi pacificus uates pro rege poposcit\nprocubus ante deum, promptim se laeta per omnes\nreddidit ubertas aluosque impleuit opimas.\nipse etiam insuetis postrema in tempora uotis\nfit pater, et laeti reputans solacia risus.\nnuncupat Isacum, mandata et numinis alti\nefficit. octauo decerpens lumine tegmen\ne ueretro, stabilesque uidens iam promere gressus\nconiunctos inter socia de stirpe propinquos\nuescitur et mensis genitor gratatur opimis;\nnam desperatis maior fit gratia uotis.\niamque puer puero iunctus dum ludit alumno.\nconpulit ignito matrem turgescere felle,\nut famulam inuisam pariter cum pignore pellat, —\net tamen inuitus senior, dum maxima iussa\nobseruat domini, pariter detrusit utrumque.\nat mulier postquam domini de sede remota est,\nauia dimoto lustrat secreta recessu.\niamque panes cunctos uinumque insumpserat omne,\nexanimem lasso suspirans pectore natum;\ndeuenit ad puteum, cui tum Iuratio nomen\nindiderat, maestoque inpleuit deuia questu:","t":"For the king’s house, paying for the offence committed,\nwith a host of diseases advancing through all alike,\nhad long since shaken offspring from the women’s wombs.\nBut when the peaceable prophet prayed for the king,\nprostrate before God, fertility at once gladly returned\nto all and filled the rich wombs.\nHe himself too, by prayers unheard of at the end of his days,\nbecomes a father, and, recalling the solace of glad laughter,\nnames him Isaac, and carries out the commands of the high\ndivine will, on the eighth day cutting the covering\nfrom the member; and, seeing him now take firm steps,\namong kinsmen joined from allied stock\nhe feasts, and the father rejoices over rich tables;\nfor grace is greater when prayers had been despaired of.\nAnd now, while the boy plays with the boy, his fellow nursling,\nit drove the mother to swell with fiery gall,\nso that she would drive out the hated slave woman with her child;\nand, though unwilling, the old man, observing the great\ncommands of the Lord, thrust out both together.\nBut after the woman was removed from her master’s house,\nshe wanders through pathless, secret places in a far retreat.\nAnd now she had used up all the bread and all the wine,\nsighing with weary breast over her fainting son;\nshe came to a well to which Oath had then\ngiven its name, and filled the pathless places with sorrowful lament:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.700 (CSEL 23:27lines 700–724–28; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-700)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.725":{"o":"cum deus adflictae lacrimis trans aethera motus\nconfirmat trepidam natoque ingentia dicit\nregna parata suo, cuius tum clade gemescat.\nilicet inriguo scatebras de gurgite libans\nerigitur natoque simul gaudente laetatur.\nprocedunt pia iussa dei; iam paruulus arcum\ntendere et aligeras coepit torquere sagittas.\ninterea uates, ne quid clam forte pararet\nductor Abimelechus, conectit foedera pacis.\nut, quia de puteis fuerant certamina mota,\nreddita securam firmarent otia uitam.\niuratur placitaeque manent concordia pacis.\ninde senex curuo terram dum sulcat aratro,\ningentem laetis compleuit messibus aulam\nsublimemque deum supplex per uota precatus\nPhilistinorum placidus consedit in aruis.\nin quibus aetherii temptatur numinis orsis,\nunicus ut natus gladio decumbat ad aram.\nnec mora, cum tumidi conscendit culmina collis,\ncornipedem ducens famulis natoque uadentem.\ntertia iamque die, cum sol candentior axe\nfulgeret medio, totas dum contrahit umbras,\ndimittit pueros senior natumque capessit,\nut sarmenta gerens, flammarum pabula, collo\nscanderet oppositi pariter fastigia collis.","t":"when God, moved beyond the sky by the tears of the afflicted woman,\nstrengthens her in her fear and promises to her son\ngreat realms prepared for him, over whose ruin she was then groaning.\nAt once, drinking from the gushing springs of a watering pool,\nshe rises and rejoices together with her rejoicing son.\nGod’s pious commands go forward; already the little boy began\nto bend the bow and to shoot winged arrows.\nMeanwhile the prophet, lest the leader Abimelech\nshould perhaps prepare something in secret, binds covenants of peace,\nso that, because quarrels had been stirred up over wells,\nleisure restored might make their life secure.\nAn oath is sworn, and the concord of the welcome peace remains.\nThen the old man, while he furrows the earth with the curved plough,\nfilled his great hall with glad harvests,\nand, praying in supplication to God on high with vows,\nsettled peacefully in the fields of the Philistines.\nThere he is tested by the words of the heavenly power:\nhis only son is to lie slain by the sword at the altar.\nWithout delay he climbs the summits of a swelling hill,\nleading a horn-footed beast, his servants and his son going with him.\nAnd now on the third day, when the sun, shining whiter\nin the middle of the sky, draws in all the shadows,\nthe old man sends away the servants and takes his son,\nso that, carrying faggots, food for the flames, on his neck,\nhe might climb with him the heights of the hill opposite.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.725 (CSEL 23:28lines 725–749–29; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-725)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.75":{"o":"liuida mordaci uoluens mendacia sensu\nfemineo temptat sub pectore mollia corda:\n\"Dic mihi, cur metuas felicia germina mali?\nnumquid poma deus non omnia nata sacrauit?\natqui si studeas mellitos carpere uictus,\naureus astrigero ridebit cardine mundus.\"\nilla negat uetitosque timet contingere ramos:\nsed tamen infirmo uincuntur pectora sensu.\nilicet ut niueo iam mitia dente momordit,\nadfulsit nulla maculatum nube serenum.\ntum sapor inlecebram mellitis faucibus indens\nperpulit insueto munus deferre marito.\nquod simul ac sumpsit, detersa nocte nitentes\nemicuere oculi mundo splendente sereni.\nergo ubi nudatum prospexit corpus uterque\nquae pudenda uident, ficulnis frondibus umbrant.\nForte sub occiduo domini iam lumine solis\nagnoscunt sonitum trepidique ad deuia tendunt.\ntum dominus caeli maestum conpellat Adamum:\n\"Dic, ubi nunc degas ?\" respondit talia supplex:\n\"O domine, adfatus pauido sub corde tremesco,\nmagne, tuos, nudusque metu frigente fatigor.\"\ntum dominus: \"Quis poma dedit noxalia uobis ?\"\n\"Tradidit haec mulier, dum dicit lumina promptim\ncandenti perfusa die liquidumque serenum\nadfulsisse sibi solemque et sidera caeli.\"","t":"rolling livid lies with biting mind,\nhe tempts the soft heart in the woman’s breast:\n“Tell me, why do you fear the happy shoots of the fruit tree?\nHas God not hallowed all the fruits that are born?\nYet if you are eager to pluck honeyed food,\nthe golden world will smile on you from the star-bearing heaven.”\nShe refuses and fears to touch the forbidden branches;\nyet her heart is overcome by its weak sense.\nAs soon as she bit the mellow fruit with snowy tooth,\nthe clear sky shone out, stained by no cloud.\nThen the taste, putting allurement into her honeyed throat,\ndrove her to bring the gift to her husband, unused to it.\nAs soon as he took it, night was wiped away, and their eyes\nshone forth clear, as the world grew radiant.\nSo when each looked upon the naked body,\nthey shade with fig leaves what they see is shameful.\nWhen the sun’s light was already setting,\nthey recognize the Lord’s sound and in fear make for out-of-the-way places.\nThen the Lord of heaven addresses the sorrowful Adam:\n“Tell me, where are you now?” He answered thus, as a suppliant:\n“O Lord, I tremble in a fearful heart\nat your address, great one, and naked I am worn out with chilling fear.”\nThen the Lord: “Who gave you the guilty fruit?”\n“The woman handed it over, saying that at once the eyes,\nflooded with shining day, and the clear sky\nhad shone upon her, and the sun and the stars of heaven.”","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.75 (CSEL 23:4lines 75–100–5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-75)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.750":{"o":"iamque adeo flammis surgentibus altar ad ipsum\nsistitur, euinctus manibus posterga retortis.\ndumque pater natum properat diffindere cultro,\neminus albentem prospectat sedulus agnum,\nqui melius fuso compleret sacra cruore.\nHis actis uetulo decedit corpore Sarra.\ncumque locum busto praestarent pignora Cetis,\ndissensit uates, pretio taxare paratus.\nquadringenta dedit sestertia diues Ephrono,\ndum sociam duplici gaudet mandare sepulchro.\nnomen Mambra loco ueterum narrauerat aetas.\nilicet e famulis quendam, quem uita fidesque\nfecerat insignem, conceptis dicere uerbis\net iurare iubet, dextram dum subdit amicam\nconectitque femur. nullam de gente Chananna\niungendam nato, quoniam de stirpe parentum\nsit ducenda magis; quae si fortasse resistat,\nmittendum caelo, facile qui molliat iram.\nille alacris tumidis inponit dona camelis\nAssyriamque petit, iam cernens tecta Nachorae.\ndumque silens secum domini mandata reuoluit,\nconspicit eximiam uenientem fonte Rebeccam,\nquae non tarda uiro frigentes porrigit undas\ninuitatque domum. cuius sit filia, fatur;\niungitur hospitio iuuenis, mox munera promit.","t":"And now, the flames rising, at the very altar\nhe is set, bound, his hands twisted behind his back.\nAnd while the father hastens to cleave his son with the knife,\nwatchful, he sees far off a white lamb,\nwhich would better fulfil the rite with its poured-out blood.\nAfter these things Sarah departs from her aged body.\nAnd when the sons of Heth offered a place for a tomb,\nthe prophet declined, ready to set a price.\nThe rich man gave four hundred sesterces to Ephron,\nas he gladly commits his partner to the double tomb.\nThe age of the ancients had named the place Mamre.\nAt once he orders one of his servants, whom his life and faithfulness\nhad made distinguished, to speak in solemn words\nand to swear, putting his friendly right hand beneath\nand joining it to the thigh, that no woman of the Canaanite race\nwould be joined to his son, since she must rather be taken\nfrom the stock of their parents; and if she should perhaps resist,\nhe who easily softens anger would be sent from heaven.\nThe servant eagerly loads gifts on the swelling camels\nand makes for Assyria, now seeing the houses of Nahor.\nAnd while silently he turns over his master’s commands,\nhe sees the outstanding Rebecca coming from the spring,\nwho without delay offers the man cool water\nand invites him home. She says whose daughter she is;\nthe young man is joined to them in hospitality and soon brings out gifts.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.750 (CSEL 23:29lines 750–774; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-750)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.775":{"o":"omnibus explicitis uadit nuptura marito.\niamque iter emensos prospectat comminus Isac,\nquem Rebecca uidens dorso defluxit ab alto\nobstipumque caput tenui uelamine condit.\niunguntur taciti dominoque auctore laetantur.\nsed postquam senior centum transcenderat annos.\nsepties et denos, largitus munera cunctis\ndecessit, gemini donatus sede sepulchri.\ninterea patrias indeptus filius aedes\nad puteum degit, fuerat cui Visio nomen.\niamque quater denos illic transegerat annos;\nconiuge cum dicta patriam ditauerat aulam:\nquae cum praecipuo canderet sidere formae,\ninfecunda diu nesciuit gaudia matris.\nsed cum sanctifico dominum deposceret ore,\nheredem ut iustum coniunx grauidata crearet,\nauditur; geminis turgescit feta Rebecca.\nquae mirata diu crescentis pondera uentris,\nconsulit aetherii supplex responsa tonantis\nagnoscitque suo populos in pectore binos\ndisparibus meritis ad lumina surgere uitae.\nnam qui prima tenet meritae primordia lucis.\nsubditus imperiis agitur seruire minoris.\nergo ubi iam facili gignuntur pignora partu.","t":"When all had been explained, she goes to be married to her husband.\nAnd now Isaac sees close at hand those who have made the journey;\nRebecca, seeing him, slid down from the high back\nand hides her bowed head with a thin veil.\nThey are joined in silence and rejoice in the Lord as author.\nBut after the old man had passed a hundred years\nand seventy, having bestowed gifts on all,\nhe departed, given a seat in the double tomb.\nMeanwhile the son, having obtained his father’s house,\nlives by the well whose name was Vision.\nAnd now he had spent forty years there;\nwith the wife we have named he had enriched his father’s hall:\nbut she, though she shone with an outstanding star of beauty,\nwas long barren and knew not the joys of a mother.\nBut when he begged the Lord with holy mouth\nthat his wife might conceive and bear a righteous heir,\nhe is heard; Rebecca swells, pregnant with twins.\nShe, long wondering at the weight of her growing womb,\nas a suppliant consults the answers of the heavenly Thunderer\nand learns that two peoples in her breast\nare rising to the light of life with unlike merits.\nFor he who holds the first beginnings of the light\nis made subject and driven to serve the commands of the younger.\nSo when the children were born by an easy birth,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.775 (CSEL 23:29lines 775–798–30; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-775)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.799":{"o":"corpore puniceo senior se promit ad auras,\nnigrantes toto consertus corpore saetas.\nquem pater Esau placito de nomine dixit.\npost, fraterna tenens manibus calcaria pressis,\nnascitur insigni praediues mente Iacobus.\nlustrabat senior uacuos uenatibus agros,\nbucina raucisono dum conplet saxa tremore.\nast alius, blandi conseruans pectoris acta,\ngaudebat patriis inlaesus uiuere tectis.\nmaiorem genitor tenero palpabat amore,\nast alium toto mulcebat pectore mater.\nqui cum Niliacam lentem soluisset in unda,\nconpositos fratrem nitentem sumere pastus\nperpulit. ut primos sibimet deferret honores.\nhaec inter malesuada fames et prima malorum\nconpulit a patriis uatem discedere terris.\nPhilistina petit rura, mox Gargara transit,\nAbimelecha suo quae tum sub iure tenebat.\nincedens claro dominum cum lumine uidit\narguentem dictis, adeat ne regna Canopi,\nsed teneat solum, dominus quod praestitit. aruum.\n\"Nam licet ignotos inter uideare morari,\nattamen inmensum genitor mansurus in orbem\nsemine multiplici gaudebis crescere gentes,\ntestamenta mei sument quae maxima uerbi.\"","t":"the elder comes forth into the air with a ruddy body,\ncovered all over his body with blackish bristles.\nHis father called him Esau by a pleasing name.\nAfterward, holding his brother’s heel in his clasped hands,\nJacob is born, very rich in an outstanding mind.\nThe elder roamed the empty fields in hunting,\nwhile the horn filled the rocks with harsh-sounding tremor.\nBut the other, keeping the ways of a gentle heart,\nrejoiced to live unharmed in his father’s house.\nThe father caressed the elder with tender love,\nbut the mother cherished the other with all her heart.\nWhen he had cooked an Egyptian lentil in water,\nhe drove his brother, eager to take the food prepared,\nto hand over to him the honours of the firstborn.\nMeanwhile hunger, evil counsellor and first of evils,\ncompelled the prophet to leave his native lands.\nHe makes for the Philistine country and soon passes on to Gerar,\nwhich Abimelech then held under his rule.\nAs he went he saw the Lord in bright light,\nwarning him with words not to go to the realms of Canopus\nbut to keep to the soil, the field that the Lord had given:\n“For though you may seem to dwell among strangers,\nyet, abiding as a father in the immeasurable world,\nyou will rejoice that nations grow from your manifold seed,\nwhich will take up the greatest covenants of my word.”","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.799 (CSEL 23:30lines 799–823–31; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-799)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.824":{"o":"ilicet in Geraris socia cum coniuge degens,\ngermanam potius paterno edisserit actu,\nne commota leui cupidine turba Philistim\nconiugium uatis correptis tolleret armis.\nat rex, dum patula lustrat secreta fenestra,\nludentem niuea cernit cum coniuge uatem,\nconubiumque uidens cunctos sub lege cohercet,\nne sociam quisquam temptet raptare prophetae.\niamque famem dudum patriis qui fugerat oris,\nhordea mollitae dum spargit credita terrae,\ncentenos laeto carpsit de caespite fructus.\nnec minus interea placido ditescit in actu\nmultimodas inter pecudes terramque feracem.\ncontinuo infelix torquet dum pectora, liuor\ninriguos turbat puteos atque aggere conplet,\nut procul abscedens possessos linqueret agros.\neuitans igitur tumidae discrimina rixae,\ndiscessit mansitque diu conualle Gerarum,\net cum sollicito puteos dimitteret actu,\ninuenit gelidas scatebroso e fomite lymphas.\nexceptusque dolo pastorum deserit iras\ninuisosque locos Litis de nomine signat.\npromouet inde gradum rursusque egesta profundo\nterra cauo gelidos in lucem protulit amnes.\net quia mordaci fuerat certamine trusus.","t":"At once, living in Gerar with his wife his partner,\nhe declares she is rather his sister, as his father had done,\nlest the Philistine crowd, moved by light desire,\nshould take up arms and carry off the prophet’s wife.\nBut the king, while he looks into hidden places through an open window,\nsees the prophet playing with his snowy wife,\nand, seeing the marriage, he restrains all under law,\nthat none should try to carry off the prophet’s partner.\nAnd now he who had long before fled famine from his native shores,\nwhile he scatters barley entrusted to the softened earth,\ngathered fruit a hundredfold from the glad turf.\nMeanwhile he grows rich in peaceful work\namid manifold cattle and fertile land.\nStraightway unhappy envy, twisting their hearts,\nfouls the watering wells and fills them with earth,\nso that he would withdraw far away and leave the fields he possessed.\nAvoiding therefore the dangers of swelling strife,\nhe departed and stayed long in the valley of Gerar,\nand when with anxious work he was sinking wells,\nhe found cool waters from a gushing source.\nAnd, met by the trickery of the herdsmen, he leaves their anger behind\nand marks the hated place with the name of Strife.\nThence he moves on, and again earth dug from the deep\nhollow brought cool streams into the light.\nAnd because he had been thrust out by biting quarrel,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.824 (CSEL 23:31lines 824–848–32; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-824)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.849":{"o":"conpellat meritis liuentia pectora dictis\nac, postquam tetricas fregit pax aurea lites,\nnomen Habundantis studuit transcribere terrae.\ndumque sagax mutat celeri noua gramina passu,\ndeuenit ad colles, quibus est Iuratio nomen.\nillic perspicuo dominum cum lumine cernit,\ntempore quo medios euoluunt sidera cursus,\nadmonitus tristes e pectore trudere motus,\ninuicto tutante deo per bella, per hostes.\nexcitus gelidos post somnum colligit artus\net uenerans structa dominum mox supplicat ara.\ninterea reges ueniunt Abimelus et Ozas,\nPhicolo comitante simul ferrumque gerente,\nut, quia pacifico uellet se adiungere uati,\nnecteret insertis concordia foedera dextris.\nexcipitur placide mensaque expletus eadem\noptatam reuehit posito discrimine pacem.\nhinc inter medios surgit discordia fratres;\nnamque pater longo iamdudum grandior aeuo,\namissum cum sole diem oculosque sepultos\nmente ferens placida mortemque instare recordans,\nmaiorem natum, pietas quem sola uidebat,\ninpellit, sumat pharetram celeresque sagittas,\nexhibeatque sibi carnes de more ferinas.\nsumpturus patriae confestim munera linguae.","t":"he addresses the envious hearts with deserved words,\nand after golden peace had broken the harsh quarrels,\nhe took care to give it the name of the land of Abundance.\nAnd while, shrewd, he moves to new pastures at a quick pace,\nhe came to the hills whose name is Oath.\nThere he sees the Lord in clear light,\nat the time when the stars unroll their middle courses,\nand is admonished to thrust sad emotions from his breast,\nsince unconquered God protects him through wars, through enemies.\nRoused, after sleep he gathers his cold limbs\nand, revering the Lord, soon prays at an altar he built.\nMeanwhile kings come, Abimelech and Ahuzzath,\nwith Phicol accompanying them and bearing the sword,\nso that, since the king wished to join himself to the peaceable prophet,\nhe might bind covenants of concord with right hands clasped.\nHe is received peacefully and, filled at the same table,\ncarries back the desired peace, the danger set aside.\nHence discord arises between the brothers;\nfor their father, long since advanced in long age,\nbearing with peaceful mind the day lost with the sun and his eyes buried,\nand remembering that death was at hand,\nurges the elder son, whom his affection alone saw,\nto take his quiver and swift arrows\nand bring him game meat in the usual way,\nso that he might at once receive the gifts of his father’s tongue.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.849 (CSEL 23:32lines 849–873–33; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-849)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.874":{"o":"id Rebecca uidens carum dat scire Iacobum,\nconpellens, geminos ut promptim deferat haedos\nac pro fratre uago studeat mactare parenti.\net, ne forte dolos nudaret corpore leui,\npellibus obtegitur, hirsutum quae fore praestent,\nfraternaque toga praeuelans pectus et artus,\noptulit indeptas uelut in uenatibus escas.\nnec tamen occuluit penitus praenuntia corda.\nnamque senex, iuuenem totum dum dextera lustrat,\nnoscitat Esaum saetis, sed uoce Iacobum.\nac postquam conpressa fames dimotaque mensa est,\nadmonet, ut propius sese sistatque locetque.\nille ubi demisso successit uertice dextrae,\ncandida sanctiloqui percepit dicta parentis,\noscula dum pressis delibat dulcia labris.\nnam post optata longae commercia uitae\nanterior frater minimo seruire iubetur.\ninterea Esaus, longis discursibus actus.\nuiscera iam saturo portabat capta parenti.\net licet officio multum placuisset et actu.\nintercepta tamen non quiuit sumere dona.\ninde irae et lacrimae et fraus quaesita nocendi:\nquam Rebecca uidens fraterno in pectore prodit\nIacobumque monet cognatas uisere Carras\nLabanumque suae germanum quaerere matris,\ndonec longa dies conceptas mitiget iras.","t":"Rebecca, seeing this, lets dear Jacob know,\nurging him to bring two kids quickly\nand to take care to slaughter them for his father in place of his roving brother.\nAnd lest his smooth body perhaps betray the trick,\nhe is covered with skins to make him seem hairy,\nand, veiling his chest and limbs with his brother’s robe,\nhe offered food as though gained in hunting.\nYet he did not wholly hide the heart that gave warning:\nfor the old man, as his right hand feels over the whole young man,\nrecognizes Esau by the bristles, but Jacob by the voice.\nAnd after hunger was quelled and the table removed,\nhe bids him come nearer and stand close by.\nWhen he came beneath the right hand with head bowed,\nhe received the bright words of his holy-speaking father,\nwhile he tastes sweet kisses with pressed lips.\nFor after the longed-for dealings of a long life\nthe elder brother is ordered to serve the youngest.\nMeanwhile Esau, driven through long wanderings,\nwas bringing the captured meat to his father, already full.\nAnd though he had greatly pleased by his service and deed,\nyet he could not take the gifts that had been intercepted.\nHence anger and tears and a plan sought to do harm,\nwhich Rebecca, seeing it in the brother’s heart, reveals,\nand warns Jacob to visit his kindred in Haran\nand to seek Laban, his mother’s brother,\nuntil a long time should soften the anger conceived.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.874 (CSEL 23:33lines 874–899–34; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-874)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.900":{"o":"iungitur et matris monitis sententia uatis,\ndum tranquilla docens natum communiter ornat:\n\"Ne pete conubium, iuuenis, de gente Chananna,\nsed memor eloquiis cari genitoris adhaere.\nest locus Assyriis, gemino qui cingitur amne.\nhic pater est matris nobis Bathuelus amicus\nLabanusque gener, totis qui praedia Carris\nlaeta tenet natasque fouet pubentibus annis.\nilla tibi coniunx, moneo, de stirpe petatur.\nquae genus egregium nostro de sanguine ducit.\"\nat iuuenis, monitis gaudens seruire paternis,\negreditur linquens patriam multoque labore\ndefessus dulci declinat lumina somno.\net dum praegelido consternit saxa cubili,\npraeduram fesso subponit uertice cautem.\nac dum securo refouentur membra sopore,\naspicit intrepidus toto de lumine mentis\nhaerentem sealam puro trans nubila caelo,\ne gradibus cuius sublimis turba ruebat;\nast alia e terris superas scandebat ad arces.\nac dum praecipiti uoluuntur corpora casu,\nomnipotens prona spectabat fronte ruentes,\nhaec super adiungens: \"Ego sum rex magnus olympi,\niampridem dominusque tuus dominusque parentis:","t":"And the prophet’s judgment is joined to the mother’s counsel,\nwhile, teaching peaceful things, he equips his son together with her:\n“Do not seek a marriage, young man, from the Canaanite race,\nbut be mindful and cleave to the words of your dear father.\nThere is a place among the Assyrians surrounded by a twin river.\nThere is your mother’s father, our friend Bethuel,\nand his kinsman Laban, who holds rich estates throughout Haran\nand cherishes daughters in the years of youth.\nFrom that stock, I advise you, seek a wife\nwho draws noble descent from our blood.”\nAnd the young man, glad to serve his father’s counsel,\ngoes out, leaving his homeland, and, wearied\nwith much toil, lowers his eyes in sweet sleep.\nAnd while he spreads the rocks as an ice-cold bed,\nhe places a very hard stone under his weary head.\nAnd while his limbs are refreshed with untroubled sleep,\nhe sees, unafraid, with the whole light of his mind,\na ladder fixed beyond the clouds in the pure sky,\ndown whose steps a lofty throng was rushing,\nwhile another was climbing from the earth to the citadels above.\nAnd while their bodies rolled down in headlong descent,\nthe Almighty watched them rushing down, his brow bent toward them,\nadding these words above: “I am the great King of Olympus,\nlong since your Lord and your father’s Lord:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.900 (CSEL 23:34lines 900–923–35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-900)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.924":{"o":"pelle metus tristes; tellus, cui membra dedisti,\ncerta tibi sedes et cunctis te duce natis.\ntu nunc perge memor coeptumque haut desere munus.\nme duce dimissas iterum remeabis ad urbes.\"\nilli somnum ingens rumpit pauor ossaque tota\nconcutit umenti perfundens membra fluore.\net super haec memorat: \"Domus est hic magna tonantis\nportaque, quae gemino reserat de cardine caelum.\nmox lapidem, capiti fuerat qui subditus, unguit\natque Domum domini conpellans indice saxo\npromittit decimos daturum se fore fructus.\niamque iter inceptum celerans, qua semita duxit,\nperuenit ad puteum, qui uasta per auia solus\nmolle pecus riguis semper palpauerat undis.\nhic gregibus trinis pastores sole calente\nlibabant tenues latices aestumque leuabant;\nhisque salutatis disquirit singula uates.\nincolumesque uidet cunctos, quos mente quaerebat.\nhaec inter niuea gradiens Rachela figura\nurgebat patrias ad pocula nota bidentes.\nquam promptim iuuenis fraterno e limine uisam,\ncastus in amplexus cognata ad pectora iungit.\ndeuoluens lapidem, putei qui texerat ora,\nseque simul iuncto germanum sanguine pandit.","t":"drive away sad fears; the land on which you have laid your limbs\nwill be a sure seat for you and for all your sons under your leadership.\nNow go on, mindful, and do not abandon the task begun.\nUnder my leadership you will return again to the cities you left.”\nGreat fear breaks his sleep and shakes all his bones,\nflooding his limbs with moist sweat.\nAnd besides this he says: “Here is the great house of the Thunderer\nand the gate that unbars heaven on its twin hinge.”\nSoon he anoints the stone that had been placed under his head,\nand, calling it the House of the Lord, with the stone as a marker,\nhe promises that he will give a tenth of his fruits.\nAnd now, hastening the journey begun where the path led,\nhe came to a well that alone, through the vast wilderness,\nhad always cherished the soft flock with its watering waves.\nHere herdsmen with three flocks, in the hot sun,\nwere drawing the thin waters and relieving the heat;\ngreeting them, the prophet asks about each thing\nand learns that all whom he sought in his mind are safe.\nMeanwhile Rachel, walking with snowy form,\nwas driving her father’s sheep to the familiar drinking place.\nThe young man, as soon as he saw her coming from the kindred house,\nchastely joins her in an embrace to his kinsman’s breast,\nrolling away the stone that had covered the mouth of the well,\nand at the same time reveals himself as her kinsman by blood.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.924 (CSEL 23:35lines 924–947–36; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-924)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.948":{"o":"quem procul intuitus sensu gaudente Labanus\naduolat et sueta iuuenem conponit in aula.\nnec patitur gratis uatem seruire propinquum\nproque labore uiri natam despondet amanti.\nergo ubi mercedem septenis traxerat annis,\ndesponsam thalami deposcit foedere iungi.\nnec mora, mentito donatur munere Lia,\nluminibus grauidis, primo sed prosata partu.\nsed fraudis commenta dolens concepta Iacobus\nuerba canit soceris, frustratus uirgine pacta.\nrursus in alterius pretium mercede seorsa\nperpetitur longae Iacobus munia uitae,\npercipiens meritam pulsa iam fraude Rachelam.\nsed deus aetheriae regnator maximus aulae\npignore multiplici dempsit dispendia formae.\nRubenum nam Lia creat, tum deinde Simonem;\ntertius egregio Leuitis pectore natus\npossedit domini sacrata altaria nostri.\nhunc sequitur Iuda, tribui mox inditus auctor.\nast alios partus, utero quos Balla creauit.\nscire licet; claros nunc ius est dicere natos.\npost hos Issacharus paritur iam germine quino.\nsexta subit proles nomen Zabulonis adepta,\nnascitur et uirgo germanis congrua Dina.\ntandem sera deus largitur dona Rachelae:","t":"Laban, seeing him from afar with a glad mind,\nflies to him and settles the young man in his own hall.\nNor does he allow the prophet, his kinsman, to serve for nothing,\nand in return for the man’s labour betroths his daughter to the lover.\nSo when he had drawn out his wage over seven years,\nhe asks that his betrothed be joined to him in the covenant of marriage.\nWithout delay Leah is given by a false gift,\nwith heavy eyes, but born of the first birth.\nBut Jacob, grieving at the fraud contrived against him,\nreproaches his in-laws, cheated of the maiden agreed.\nAgain, for the price of the other, by a separate wage,\nJacob endures the duties of a long life,\nreceiving Rachel, whom he had earned, the fraud now set aside.\nBut God, the greatest ruler of the heavenly hall,\nmade up for her lack of beauty by many offspring.\nFor Leah bears Reuben, then next Simeon;\nthe third, Levi, born with noble heart,\npossessed the holy altars of our Lord.\nJudah follows him, soon made the founder of a tribe.\nThe other births, which Bilhah brought forth from her womb,\none may know; now it is right to name the famous sons.\nAfter these Issachar is born as the fifth offspring.\nThe sixth child comes next, receiving the name of Zebulun,\nand a maiden, Dinah, is born, fit for her brothers.\nAt last God grants late gifts to Rachel:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.948 (CSEL 23:36lines 948–972–37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-948)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.973":{"o":"aetherias tenerum Iosepum gignit ad auras.\nergo ubi iam proles utraque ex coniuge parta est,\ndiscessum a soceris et, quae quaesiuerat, orat:\nqui cum pro meritis mercedem soluere uellent,\ndeponunt animos genero poscente rogati:\nqui nihil externum cupiens, ditescere sese\nmuneribus domini solis testatus, abiuit,\nconiuge percepta tantum contentus utraque,\nenitens, ut longa sibi monumenta pararet.\ndecerpit uirgas rupto de corpore matrum.\nmyrtea prima fuit, storaci mox altera dempta est.\ntertia uulsa nuci, quo sensim lana colores\ndiuiduos raperet uirgarum perlita suco.\nnam per stagna pecus properans mersare balantum\nsignauit uario tinctum discrimine fuci,\ninuidiam propter, uariam quia dixerat eius\nesse socer mercem, multis quam dempserat annis.\nhic cum diuitiis alitus praestaret inemptis,\ninuidiam laeuo mouit liuore dolentum.\ndumque socer dirus lanarum uellera tondit,\nlibertas permissa uiro, qua commoda ferret\nomnia et incoctos tosta fornace penates,\nquos Syrus in patriis credebat numina Carris.\nhaec tamen inuolucris cohibebat cauta Rachela,\nne pater inuenta puniret crimina noxa.","t":"she brings tender Joseph forth into the air of heaven.\nSo when offspring had been born of both wives,\nhe asks his in-laws for leave to depart and for what he had sought;\nwhen they wished to pay him a wage for his deserts,\nthey set aside their purpose at their son-in-law’s request.\nHe, desiring nothing of another’s, declared that he would grow rich\nby the Lord’s gifts alone, and went away,\ncontent only with having received both wives,\nstriving to prepare for himself lasting memorials.\nHe strips rods from the broken bodies of their mother trees:\nthe first was of myrtle, then a second was taken from the storax,\nthe third torn from the nut tree, so that the wool, gradually\nsmeared with the sap of the rods, would take on parted colours.\nFor, hastening to plunge the bleating flock in the pools,\nhe marked it, dyed with various distinctions of colour,\nbecause of envy, since his father-in-law had said\nthat the variegated stock should be his wage, which he had withheld for many years.\nWhen he, nourished with unbought riches, excelled,\nhe stirred the envy of those grieving with sinister jealousy.\nAnd while the dread father-in-law shears the fleeces,\nthe man was free to carry off all his goods\nand the household gods baked in the hot furnace,\nwhich the Syrian in his native Haran believed to be divinities.\nThese, however, cautious Rachel kept hidden in wrappings,\nlest her father, finding the offence, punish the crime.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.973 (CSEL 23:37lines 973–997–38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-973)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1.998":{"o":"digressus uicto conscendit flumine collem,\nquem Galatum indigenae patrio sermone loquuntur.\ntertia iamque die soceri peruenit ad aures\ndiscessus generi pariter pariterque natarum.\nilicet auxilium fraterno ex agmine poscit\nquaesitumque diu sexto iam lumine nanctus,\nne noceat, sancto domini terrore uetatur,\nmitificusque suis, quae credit numina. poscit,\net cunctis quaesita locis non cognita maeret.\npostquam depositis rediit pax certa querellis,\ncongeries struitur saxis crescentibus alta,\nut locus exstructo maneat munimine testis\nac positus limes litem discerneret agris.\necce uiae medio uates uidet ardua castra,\nquae deus astrigero ductat moderamine rector,\nindidit et nomen testatus: \"Haec deus implet.\"\ninterea electos iuuenes praecurrere iussit,\nmuneribusque graues, germanum quae iubet uti,\nut reditum placidus tribuat; pacemque petenti\nadnuit ille libens; sociis atque agmine multo\nstipatus fratrem contra nil turbidus exit,\ncumque quater centum terreret turba uirorum,\nplus species, quam tela nocent famulantibus armis.\ndiscretis igitur gregibus haec prima locauit,\nquae donata sibi dignetur sumere frater,\natque simul inmensus dominum ceruice poposcit:","t":"Having left, he crossed the river and climbed the hill\nthat the natives call Gilead in their native tongue.\nAnd now on the third day it reached the father-in-law’s ears\nthat his son-in-law and his daughters had departed together.\nAt once he asks help from his brothers’ band,\nand, finding him, long sought, on the sixth day,\nhe is forbidden by holy terror of the Lord to harm him,\nand gently asks for his own things that he believes divinities,\nand grieves that, sought in every place, they are not found.\nAfter sure peace returned and complaints were laid aside,\na high heap is built of stones piled up,\nso that the place might remain a witness with its raised bulwark\nand the boundary set might settle the dispute over fields.\nSee, in the middle of the way the prophet sees a lofty camp,\nwhich God the ruler leads with star-bearing governance,\nand he gave it a name, testifying: “God fills this.”\nMeanwhile he ordered chosen young men to run ahead,\nladen with gifts, which he bids his brother use,\nthat he might grant a peaceable return; and to his request for peace\nthe brother willingly assents; surrounded by companions and a large band\nhe goes out to meet his brother, not at all troubled,\nand though the crowd of four hundred men caused alarm,\ntheir appearance did more harm than the weapons of their attendant arms.\nSo, having divided the flocks, he placed these first,\nwhich his brother might deign to take as given to him,\nand at the same time, bowing low, he prayed to the Lord:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 1.998 (CSEL 23:38lines 998–1023–39; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/1-998)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1":{"o":"Interea uarios agitant dum tempora cursus\net noua pararet surgit de germine proles,\ncrimine obeunt nati prolesque sequentum.\ndiuersosque nouat tellus Memphitica reges.\nnotio cuncta Isacum nec uatum mulier prosunt\neximie dilecta prius. sed munere sancti\ntutantis populum domini numerosa creantur\ncorpora et inmensa densentur nube phalanges.\nquae metuenda sibi postquam rex uidit Aegypti,\ntalibus capessit socios, alacris permouet ira:\n\"En pubes captiua prius contentaque uictu.\nporrexit quem parca manus, en longa cohortes\niam legione ciet et solis non tumet armis,\npugnaci uirtute prior, uultusque minaces\net subiecta gerit. quid, si nunc tela capessit\nhostibus aut societ sese, qua mole duelli\nAegyptus uastata cadet quantasque ruinas\nsublimes facient conuulsis moenibus urbes?\nquin potius dura frangantur sorte laborum\ninmensasque leuent substructis molibus arces,\nne redeat uacuis spes libertatis amissae.\"","t":"Meanwhile, while the times drive their varied courses\nand a new generation rises from the seed,\nthe sons die and the offspring of those who followed,\nand the land of Memphis brings forth new and different kings.\nNeither the memory of Joseph nor the merits of the prophets avail,\nonce dearly loved; but by the gift of the holy Lord\nwho protects his people, numerous bodies are born\nand their ranks thicken in an immense cloud.\nWhen the king of Egypt saw that these were to be feared,\nhe gathers his companions with such words, stirred by anger:\n“See, a youth once captive and content with the food\nthat a sparing hand held out; see, it now raises cohorts\nin a long legion and swells not with arms alone,\nsuperior in warlike courage, and bears threatening looks\neven while subject. What if it now takes up weapons\nor allies itself with our enemies? Under what weight of war\nwill Egypt fall laid waste, and what great ruins\nwill the lofty cities make, their walls torn down?\nRather let them be broken by a hard lot of labour\nand raise immense citadels on built foundations,\nlest the hope of lost freedom return to them when idle.”","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1 (CSEL 23:lines 1–21; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1012":{"o":"quin potius profana rue atque idola cuncta\ndisice cum titulis inscriptaque nomina dele,\nut possis seruire deo, quem cuncta tremiscunt.\nmox uictum sacrabo tuum fontesque meantes;\nmorborumque tuo demam de corpore pestes.\nnullus inops nati tota de plebe dolebit\npaternum non esse sibi nomenque decusque.\nlonginquos praestabo dies. quis terminus aeui\nlaxior optatae producat tempora uitae.\nante tuas acies tristis formido uolabit,\natque uenenato praecurrent uulnere uespae.\nut tua belligeris metuantur signa maniplis,\nperque feras gentes facilis uictoria cedat.\nquas tamen edomitas faciam decrescere sensim,\nne uacua sit terra uiris, atque sanctum multo\nincrescat nimia rabidarum turba ferarum.\nmilite diffuso faciam se extendere fines\ntelluris sedisque tuae, qua marmore rubro.\naestuat oceanus uentosis lubricus undis.\nusque Philistinum pelagus terramque carentem\nhumano cultore, cluens atque agmine multo\nqua fluit Euphrates uitreis perlucidus undis. \"\nHaec ubi detonuit, dominus conscendere collem\nAronem Moysenque iubet ac nobilis aeui\nseptuaginta uiros longeque inflectere colla\naeterno summoque deo; nam comminus ipsum\npermittit properare ducem, qui iussa facessens\nsancta dei celsum confestim construit altar\nmonte sub eximio. uacuas qui surgit in auras:","t":"Rather overthrow the profane things and scatter all the idols\nwith their inscriptions, and blot out the inscribed names,\nso that you may serve God, before whom all things tremble.\nSoon I will bless your food and flowing springs\nand take away the plagues of disease from your body.\nNo one in all the people will grieve for lack of a child\nthat he has not his father’s name and honour.\nI will grant long days, so that a broader term of life\nmay prolong the times of the life you long for.\nBefore your ranks sad terror will fly,\nand hornets will run ahead with poisoned sting,\nso that your standards may be feared by warlike companies\nand easy victory may come through fierce nations.\nYet I will make them, once subdued, decrease gradually,\nlest the land be empty of men and\nthe crowd of rabid beasts increase too greatly.\nWith your soldiers spread out I will make the bounds\nof your land and seat extend, from where, by the Red Sea,\nthe slippery ocean surges with windy waves,\nas far as the Philistine sea, and the land without\nhuman tillers, renowned, and with its great flow,\nwhere the Euphrates runs clear with glassy waves.”\nWhen he had thundered these words, the Lord bids Aaron\nand Moses climb the hill, and seventy men of noble age,\nand bow their necks from afar\nto the eternal and highest God; for he allows the leader himself\nto hasten near, who, carrying out the holy commands\nof God, at once builds a lofty altar\nat the foot of the outstanding mountain that rises into the empty air:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1012 (CSEL 23:92lines 1012–1040–93; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1012)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1041":{"o":"bissenos lapides. tribuum quae summa uidetur.\ncomminus adiungens. hic nondum quarum iuuencos\nexhibet armata sacrisque hos inmolat aris;\nsanguine de quorum partem diffundit ad altar.\ncreterrae instillans aliam, plebemque frequentem\nspargit rore leui, librumque euoluit aeterni\nseruantem monumenta dei. quae consona postquam\ndixit cara sibi docilis sententia plebis,\nconscendit tumidum lento molimine collem\ngrandaeuosque senes fratremque in uertice sistit.\nhi simul adspiciunt rutilantem fulgure gemmam.\nin qua siderei steterant uestigia regis:\nsapphira nomen habet; caelumque hic uisitur albens\npraetentum per dorsa iugi: quae cuncta uerentes\nsublimi cum laude ferunt uictumque capessunt.\ninterea, monitis uates senioribus illic\nsidere, Iesutem secum subiungere gressus\npacato de corde Sennarum. Hurumque relinquit\nAronemque suis, certantum ut iurgia noscant\naequa lance uirum iurisque ut uerba loquantur.\nipse ubi sanctifici tenuit iuga plurima collis,\nlabitur aetherio propere nubs fulgida caelo\net montem conplexa tegit uatemque seorsum\nocculit a sociis terno bis lumine solis.\nseptima iamque dies niueum patefecerat axem.","t":"twelve stones, which are the number of the tribes,\njoining them close. Here he brings forth bullocks never yoked\nand sacrifices them on the sacred altars;\npart of their blood he pours out on the altar,\nlets another part drip into a bowl, and sprinkles the thronging people\nwith a light dew, and unrolls the book that keeps\nthe memorials of the eternal God. After the people dear to him\nhad spoken their docile and harmonious assent,\nhe climbs the swelling hill with slow effort\nand sets the aged elders and his brother on the summit.\nThese together behold a gem glowing with lightning,\non which the feet of the starry King had stood;\nit has the name of sapphire; and a white sky is seen here\nstretched across the ridges of the mountain; revering all this,\nthey utter lofty praise and take food.\nMeanwhile the prophet, having told the elders to remain there,\nhas Joshua join his steps with him\nwith peaceful heart, and leaves Hur\nand Aaron to his people, so that they may hear the quarrels of disputing men\nwith an equal scale and speak the words of law.\nWhen he himself reached the many ridges of the holy hill,\na shining cloud glides swiftly from the heavenly sky,\nenfolds and covers the mountain, and hides the prophet apart\nfrom his companions for twice three lights of the sun.\nAnd now the seventh day had opened the snowy sky,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1041 (CSEL 23:93lines 1041–1065–94; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1041)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1066":{"o":"cum dominus media conpellat nube prophetam.\nmirificas inter flammas dum fulgidus infit,\natque quater denis uati dat iussa diebus;\nnoscere quis posset, quae sint sacraria summo\ndigna deo, lignisque iubet haec ardua pangi\nperpetuo ualidis. nulla quae dissipat aetas.\nhaec miris descendit modis mensuraque iussa\nlammina conspicui praeuelat ductilis auri.\nconectens geminos tereti uertigine circlos\nin dextrum laeuumque latus, qua sancta coluntur.\ninde leuigatis intexit frondibus arcam,\nin qua perpetui maneant mandata tonantis.\nquin etiam rutilo prorumpere perficit auro\ndiuersosque locat, qua sese altaria pandunt,\nalarum splendore pari similique uolatu,\nceu moueant agiles uentosa in nubila pinnas.\nmultaque praeterea rerum commenta nouarum\nmirificis sunt facta modis, quae dicere qui uult,\nexpromet citius pelagus quas uoluat harenas.\nsed neque quam multae species nec nomina quae sint.\nlex numeris adstricta potest depromere fando.\ndum cyathos uates, phialas, mortaria pangit\ncaelatasque facit gestanda ad munera lances\net quae Thara subduntur fulchra lucernis.","t":"when the Lord calls the prophet from the midst of the cloud,\nwhile, shining, he begins amid wondrous flames,\nand gives the prophet commands for forty days,\nso that he might know what sanctuaries are worthy\nof the highest God; and he orders them to be fixed with lofty timbers,\nstrong for ever, which no age dissolves.\nIt was made in wondrous ways, and a ductile sheet\nof conspicuous gold covers the commanded measure,\njoining pairs of rings with smooth roundness\non the right and left side where the holy things are worshipped.\nThen he made an ark of smoothed wood,\nin which the commands of the everlasting Thunderer might remain.\nMoreover he makes cherubim come forth from ruddy gold\nand places them facing apart where the altar opens,\nwith equal splendour of wings and like flight,\nas though they moved nimble wings into the windy clouds.\nAnd many other contrivances of new things besides\nwere made in wondrous ways; whoever wishes to tell them\nwould sooner set out the sands the sea rolls.\nBut neither how many kinds there are, nor what their names,\ncan verse, bound by metre, set out in speech,\nwhile the prophet fashions ladles, bowls and mortars,\nand makes engraved dishes to be carried for the offerings,\nand the stands placed under the lamps.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1066 (CSEL 23:94lines 1066–1089–95; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1066)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1090":{"o":"iam quaecumque tegunt sacratam desuper arcam\naut uelant postes, ardenti e Lothus tinxit.\nquin etiam Melchae texuntur pallia peplo,\nAroni uatibusque piis, qui munera libant\nin tectis sacrata dei, gemmaeque coruscae\ninhaerent sinibus signantes nomina sena\ndistinctim tribuum, quarum de corpore plebs est.\nsingula nobilibus signantes nomina gemmis.\nsedes prima loco. topazo adiuncta smaragdus:\nsapphirus hanc sequitur, cum qua carbunculus ardet,\niaspisque uiget fuluoque intermicat auro:\ntertia ligurio senes: effrenis Sarram fluuius\natque amethysto. fulgens quem purpura tingit.\nchrysolithus quartus, berillo adnexus onychnus.\nadditur aetherii signum uenerabile regis,\nlammina conspicui formatum quod tenet auri.\nlintea quin etiam niuoso uice textu\nin laxos cohibere sinus atque indere membris\npraecipitur partemque obscenam condere carnis.\nne, dum sacra uehunt, denudent turpia uates.\nhaec inter totus sacrorum euoluitur ordo:\npeccatum quae dona leuent. quaeue hostia ferro\nicta cadat sanctamque dei determinat iram.\nnam quicumque uirum sacrata altaria tangit,\nsanctior efficitur purgatus pectora naeuo.","t":"Now whatever covers the sacred ark from above\nor veils the posts he dyed with burning scarlet;\nmoreover robes are woven with a purple mantle\nfor Aaron and the pious priests, who offer gifts\nin the holy dwelling of God, and flashing gems\ncling to the folds, marking the names\nof the tribes, from whose body the people comes,\nmarking single names with noble gems.\nThe first row in its place: the emerald joined to the topaz;\nthe sapphire follows it, with which the carbuncle burns,\nand the jasper flourishes and gleams amid tawny gold;\nthe third row with the ligure, the agate\nand the amethyst, shining, dyed with purple;\nthe fourth, the chrysolite, the onyx joined to the beryl.\nThe venerable sign of the heavenly King is added,\nformed on a sheet of conspicuous gold.\nMoreover linen garments of snowy weave\nare ordered to be gathered into loose folds and put on the limbs\nto hide the private parts of the flesh,\nlest the priests uncover what is shameful as they carry the sacred things.\nMeanwhile the whole order of sacrifices is set out:\nwhat gifts lighten sin, what victim struck by iron\nfalls and ends the holy wrath of God.\nFor whoever of men touches the sacred altar\nis made holier, cleansed of the stain in his heart.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1090 (CSEL 23:95lines 1090–1114; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1090)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1115":{"o":"pendeat ut lychnus semper laquearibus altis\nincensus noctemque suo de lumine uincat.\nedicit censura dei. ne forte tenebrae horrificam faciant per sancta altaria noctem.\nponitur et liquidi nonnumquam sucus oliui,\nsanctificans hominum carnes. dum uertice summo\nliquitur et crasso perfundit unguine membra:\nadice tusque, leuis cuius fit naribus aptus\nhalitus et dulces inrorat sensibus auras.\nilicet ut magni splenderet machina templi\nornatuque suo cunctas transcenderet aedes.\nperdociles tribuit sensus et maxima fabris\nornamenta deus omnesque his indidit artes\nAchisamo de Dana tribu iunctoque Beselo,\nex Iuda cui classe fuit clarigena origo.\nutque forent domini populo notissima dicta.\naccipit e gemina formatas caute tabellas\npropheta tribuente deo, quas pollice sancto\net paribus scripsit digitis manus inclita regis.\ninterea populus. metata in castra locatus,\ndum uatem deesse suum iam tempore multo\nmordaci sub corde gemit nusquamque uideri\nmurmurat. adsidue deposcit numina demens\nAronem peruersa sibi; quos ille frementes\ninstantesque diu deferre ac tradere iussit\nornatus. quos aure gerunt nataeque nurusque,\nnatiua dum forma parum splendoris habere\nducitur et turpi de uulnere defluit aurum.","t":"that a lamp should always hang from the lofty ceiling,\nlit, and overcome the night with its light,\nGod’s decree declares, lest perhaps darkness\nmake a dreadful night through the holy altars.\nThe juice of liquid olive is also set there at times,\nhallowing the flesh of men, as it flows from the top of the head\nand drenches the limbs with thick ointment;\nadd incense too, whose light breath becomes fitting for the nostrils\nand bedews the senses with sweet airs.\nThen, so that the fabric of the great temple might shine\nand surpass all buildings in its adornment,\nGod gave teachable minds and the greatest\nskill to the craftsmen and put all arts in them,\nin Oholiab of the tribe of Dan and in Bezalel joined with him,\nwho had a famous origin from the company of Judah.\nAnd so that the Lord’s words might be best known to the people,\nthe prophet receives tablets formed from a twofold rock,\nGod giving them, which the King’s famous hand wrote\nwith holy thumb and like fingers.\nMeanwhile the people, placed in the measured camp,\ngroaning in biting heart that their prophet has long been absent\nand muttering that he is nowhere seen, madly\nand constantly demand of Aaron perverse divinities for themselves;\nhe, as they raged and pressed long, ordered them to bring and hand over\nthe ornaments their daughters and wives wear in their ears,\nsince their native beauty is thought to have too little splendour,\nand gold hangs down from a shameful wound.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1115 (CSEL 23:96lines 1115–1142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1115)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1143":{"o":"hoc ubi congessit populus, coniecit in ignem\nmollitumque dehinc eruens flamma camini\nmiscuit et torua formauit fronte iuuencum\nuenturumque diem sollemnem confore dixit.\nilicet albentes cum primum lucifer ignes\nprotulit et celso noctem seclusit olympo.\nconsurgit Iudaea manus damnosaque festa\nlaeta colit multisque infundit pectora poclis.\natque exultantes ducit furiata choreas.\naspicit haec celsa dominus sublimis in arce\ninnocuumque iubet propere descendere uatem.\ndum memorat: \"Decurre citus. montemque relinque.\nperuersi ductor populi plebisque magister.\nquam profana iuuant; peccauit praesule multum\nte Iudaea suo, dum sanctos despicit actus.\nen quibus indomiti Pharaonis soluere uincla\nprincipe te licuit furuaque exire Canopo.\npraeuaricatores taurinis uultibus adstant\nproque deo celebrant mentiti membra iuuenci\net libertatis memorant id nunc suae numen.\ntu motus ne flecte meos neue obuius ito,\ndum meritos his mitto metus dignamque ruinam.\nnec tu iacturam metuas. ne dempta potestas\nculmen ad alterius confestim missa recurrat.","t":"When the people had gathered this, he threw it into the fire,\nand then, taking out what the furnace flame had softened,\nmixed it and formed a bullock with grim brow,\nand said that the next day would be a solemn feast.\nAt once, when the morning star first brought forth its white fires\nand shut the night out from lofty heaven,\nthe Jewish band rises and gladly keeps the ruinous feast\nand floods their breasts with many cups,\nand, maddened, leads exulting dances.\nThe Lord on high sees these things from his lofty citadel\nand orders the innocent prophet to go down quickly,\nsaying: “Run down quickly and leave the mountain,\nleader of a perverse people and master of a crowd\nthat profane things please; Judea has sinned greatly\nunder your leadership, while it despises holy acts.\nSee, those whom you led, who were allowed to loose\nthe bonds of untamed Pharaoh and to go out from dark Egypt,\nstand as transgressors before a bull’s face\nand celebrate as God the limbs of a counterfeit bullock,\nand now call this the divinity of their freedom.\nDo not try to bend my anger, nor stand in my way,\nwhile I send them deserved terrors and a fitting ruin.\nNor need you fear loss, as though the power taken away\nwould at once pass to another’s summit.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1143 (CSEL 23:96lines 1143–1166–97; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1143)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1167":{"o":"dabitur in Terris multum praestantior armis\ngens ignota tibi, quae sit te principe uictrix.\"\nTerritus his uates dominum subnixus adorat\ntalibus effatus: \"Cur tantis motibus exit\nin populum nunc ira tuum, quem dura gementem\nimperia nimium metuens laxauit Aegyptus,\ndum te, magne, timet, dum celsae robora dextrae\nterrificant fracta miseram ceruice tyrannum ?\net nunc, o domine, quid dicet turba Canopi.\ncaptiuis priuata suis infensaque plebi,\nquam cernit nunc esse tuam, nisi te, deus ingens.\nnequiquam consueta tibi pietate fauentem\nproduxisse uiros deserta in sede necandos.\ndum uastos inter saltus sua funera ducunt.\nsublimis indulge tuis uultumque serenum\nexhibe poscenti; nam te quis uiuere moto\nin terris caeloque potest ? quem currit ad unum\nquod moritur uiuitque tibi. tandemque recurrat\nad sensus. uenerande. tuos. quae dona pararis\nAbramo quondam, proceri quae deinde Iacobo\nIsacique pio. felix quos seruitus ornat,\nquod placuere tibi: iuratus per tua, sancte.\nrobora dum spondes prognatos his fore curae,\nrex inuicte, tuae. densandos pube frequenti\ninnumeraque acie, ceu magni sidera caeli\nstellantesque micant mundano in cardine gemmae.","t":"there shall be given you on earth a nation far more outstanding in arms,\nunknown to you, to be victorious under your leadership.”\nTerrified by this, the prophet, prostrate, worships the Lord,\nspeaking thus: “Why does your anger now go out\nwith such great emotion against your people, which, groaning under harsh\ncommands, Egypt in its great fear released,\nwhile it fears you, great one, while the strength of your lofty right hand\nterrifies the wretched tyrant, his neck broken?\nAnd now, O Lord, what will the crowd of Egypt say,\nrobbed of its captives and hostile to the people\nit now sees to be yours, except that you, mighty God,\nfavouring them in vain with your accustomed kindness,\nled the men out to be killed in a deserted place,\nwhile they go to their deaths among vast wastes?\nO lofty one, be gracious to your own, and show your serene face\nto one who asks; for who can live on earth or in heaven\nwhen you are moved, to whom alone runs\nall that dies and lives for you? And at last let there return\nto your mind, venerable one, the gifts you prepared\nonce for Abraham, then for the chief Jacob\nand for pious Isaac, happy men whom service adorns,\nbecause they pleased you; you swore by your own strength, holy one,\nwhen you pledged that their offspring would be your care,\nunconquered King, to be made dense with numerous youth\nand countless ranks, as the stars of the great heaven\nand the starry gems sparkle on the world’s pole.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1167 (CSEL 23:97lines 1167–1192–98; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1167)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1193":{"o":"cur promissa labant? cur ditis commoda terrae\nnullus habet uatesque insistit sedibus exul.\ncui mellis spondes latices et flumina lactis?\"\nFlectitur his dominus totamque expectorat iram.\nilicet excelso descendit colle propheta,\nconscriptas referens domini de lege tabellas\nintrorsus extraque simul; nam pagina sancta\net tergo commissa fuit; cumque incitus exit.\nuocibus inmodicis populi defigitur Auses\nclamoremque putat bellantis hunc fore turbae.\nsed uates non bella uidet, sed languida uino\npectora multimodas in caelum mittere uoces.\niamque adeo ingressus castrorum limina ductor\nbacchantis cernit populi feruere choreas\nauratumque uidet tumida ceruice iuuencum:\nquem uelut aetherium spectabat turba parentem.\nilicet infensus calidam dum concipit iram.\nconfringit tabulas. totum dum surgit in ictum,\niniectumque focis uitulum dissoluit et exin\nporricit in pelagus sumptisque exinde fluentis\nattonitos libare iubet: fratremque deinde\nincrepat offensus ualide, quod uana petentes\naudierit iustaque deum uiolauerit ira.\nille pacem poscens crimen populare fatetur.\nexortem sese faciens culpabilis ausi.","t":"Why do the promises waver? Why does no one possess the benefits of the rich land,\nand the prophet, to whom you promise streams of honey\nand rivers of milk, stand an exile in his own seats?”\nThe Lord is moved by this and pours all his anger from his breast.\nAt once the prophet comes down from the lofty hill,\ncarrying the tablets inscribed with the Lord’s law\ninside and out together, for the holy page\nwas committed to the back as well; and as he goes out in haste,\nJoshua is struck by the immoderate voices of the people\nand thinks this is the shout of a crowd at war.\nBut the prophet sees not war but hearts slack with wine\nsending manifold voices to heaven.\nAnd now, when the leader had entered the threshold of the camp,\nhe sees the dances of the revelling people seething\nand sees the golden bullock with swollen neck,\nwhich the crowd looked on as on a heavenly father.\nAt once, hostile, as he conceives a hot anger,\nhe breaks the tablets, rising to the full blow,\nand melts the calf, thrown on the fire, and then\ncasts it into the water and, taking from that stream,\norders the astonished people to drink; and then he rebukes\nhis brother, greatly offended, because he had listened to those seeking vain things\nand outraged God, whose anger was just.\nHe, asking for peace, confesses the people’s crime,\nmaking himself free of the guilty deed.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1193 (CSEL 23:98lines 1193–1217–99; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1193)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.120":{"o":"dum memor in saeclum secum sua dona reuolui\nsopore dudum promissa bonis, quae tempore coept\naudierat uentura suis Abramus et una\nsealam lectusque dehinc ad sancta Iacobus.\niamque deum mitem tutelam fundere caelo\ngens oppressa uidet, dum pacem poscit ab altis.\nAc dum lanigeras soceri per rura bidentes\nMoses solus agit, sacrati ad culmina collis\ndeuenit, Hebraea quem dicit lingua Chorebum.\nin quo conspicua flammarum lampade cernit\nprocuruam fulgere rubum neque ignibus uri.\npermotus nouitate rei disquirere gaudet,\nfomite quo tandem tam clara incendia surgant.\ndumque pauens tacite se rex tam conminus offert,\ninclita siderei prohibetur uoce tonantis\nincessu properare cito; sed sistere gressum\net tegumenta pedum geminis mox demere plantis\ncogitur: et paret sacratae ob culmina terrae.\nmox timor ingreditur sensus lumenque caligat\nlumine de nimio, dominum quia cernere non est\nfas cuiquam, uultumque simul atque ora retorquet.\ntum uox missa sonat, qua se rex inclitus infit\nesse deum procerum, dudum quos diximus esse\ncredentum uitaeque duces. tum talia subdit:","t":"as he, mindful forever, turned over his gifts within himself,\npromised long since in sleep to the good, which in time past\nAbraham had heard would come to his own, and Jacob, too,\nwhen he saw the ladder rising to holy things.\nAnd now the oppressed race sees God pour forth gentle protection\nfrom heaven, while it asks peace from on high.\nAnd while Moses alone drives his father-in-law’s woolly sheep\nthrough the countryside, he came to the summit of a sacred hill\nwhich the Hebrew tongue calls Horeb.\nOn it he sees, in a conspicuous lamp of flames,\na bending bramble shining and not burned by the fire.\nStirred by the novelty of the thing, he is eager to find out\nby what kindling such bright fires arise.\nAnd while, fearful, he silently draws so near,\nhe is forbidden by the famous voice of the starry Thunderer\nto come forward quickly, but is made to halt his step\nand at once remove the coverings from both his feet;\nand he obeys, because of the holy ground of the summit.\nSoon fear enters his senses and his sight is darkened\nby the excess of light, because it is not right for anyone\nto see the Lord, and he turns away his face and mouth together.\nThen a voice sent forth sounds, in which the famous King declares\nthat he is the God of the patriarchs, whom we have long since said to be\nthe leaders of believers and of life. Then he adds these words:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.120 (CSEL 23:61lines 120–143; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-120)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1218":{"o":"at princeps, punire parans dementia uulgi\ncrimina. Leuitas totis discurrere castris\net ferrum nudare iubet atque obuia passim\ncorpora, cognata quamquam de plebe, ferire.\nilli alacres per nota sibi diuortia currunt\noblatosque ruunt cuneos raptimque uirorum,\nultores domini, circum tria milia caedunt,\nquis uicena simul studio quasi milia iungas.\nhis gestis propheta suis iam mitior exit\naeternumque rogat populi pro crimine regem,\ntalibus effatus: \"Peccauit turba tuorum.\nrex inuicte, uirum plus quam mortalia quaerunt\npectora, mutarum pecudum simulacra colendo.\nhis et uota dedit et numen credidit aurum.\net nunc, o domine, si dignum me prece ducis.\nquam faciam fundamque tibi. dimitte reatum,\nquem solus laxare potes. sin amplior illos\npoena manet cunctosque tenet sententia mortis.\nnomen, sancte, meum caelesti ex pagina dele,\nquam scripsit ueneranda manus, cui subiacet orbis. \"\norantem responsa dei felicia palpant:\n\"Quisquis me uetito peccator crimine laedit\nme contra ueniens. hunc sancti pagina libri\nnulla tenet nomenque nocens delebitur inde.","t":"But the chief, preparing to punish the crimes of the mad mob,\norders the Levites to run through the whole camp,\nbare the sword, and strike the bodies they meet everywhere,\nthough they were of the kindred people.\nThey eagerly run through the lanes they knew\nand fall upon the bands in their way and swiftly,\nas avengers of the Lord, slay about three thousand men,\nto which you may join twenty thousand together.\nThese deeds done, the prophet goes out to his people, now milder,\nand entreats the eternal King for the people’s crime,\nspeaking thus: “The crowd of your people has sinned,\nunconquered King, more than mortal hearts seek,\nworshipping the images of dumb cattle;\nto these they made vows and believed gold a divinity.\nAnd now, O Lord, if you count me worthy of the prayer\nthat I make and pour out to you, forgive the guilt\nthat you alone can release. But if a greater penalty\nawaits them and the sentence of death holds them all,\nblot out my name, holy one, from the heavenly page\nthat your venerable hand wrote, to which the world is subject.”\nGod’s favourable answers soothe him as he prays:\n“Whoever, a sinner, wrongs me by forbidden crime,\ncoming against me, no page of the holy book holds,\nand his guilty name will be blotted out from it.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1218 (CSEL 23:99lines 1218–1241–100; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1218)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1242":{"o":"at tu depropera captumque hinc explica cursum\npromissosque locos susceptae adscribito turbae.\nac ne sollicita tangat te cura uadentem,\nnuntius anterior semper gradietur euntem.\nast illos sua facta grauant, quos crimina fuscant.\nerecta ceruice uiros sensuque tumentes:\nquapropter socio tecum non ambulo gressu.\"\nHaec populus maesto suscepit dicta reatu,\ninriguoque gemit ob tanta obprobria fletu,\npollutas sumens nigranti stamine uestes.\nquem bonus eloquiis uates deponere tristes\nindutus luctumque iubet multumque precatur,\nut uideant, ne forte dei sit grandior ira,\nsi fortasse pari fuerit de crimine laesus.\nHis actis conposta sibi tentoria promit\nsemotisque locat castris nomenque decenter\nindidit a teste, cuius sententia uera est.\nillum facta deo subeuntem limina cuncti\ncertatim uidere uiri ipsique uicissim\ngaudebant inferre gradum uel sistere contra:\ncum subito, horrendum uisu, nubs fulgida caelo\nlabitur et summi perfundit culmina templi;\ndumque pius uates graditur. dum deinde recursat.","t":"But you, make haste and pursue from here the course you have begun,\nand assign the promised places to the crowd you have taken up.\nAnd lest anxious care touch you on your way,\na messenger will always go before you as you travel.\nBut their deeds weigh down those whom crimes darken,\nmen of stiff neck and swollen mind;\ntherefore I do not walk with you as a companion.”\nThe people received these words with sad guilt\nand groans with streaming tears at such reproaches,\nputting on soiled garments of black thread.\nThe good prophet bids them in words lay aside\nthe sad garments and mourning, and prays earnestly\nthat they take care lest God’s anger perhaps grow greater\nif he should be wronged by a like crime.\nThese things done, he brings out the tent prepared for himself\nand pitches it away from the camp, and fittingly gave it a name\nfrom the witness, whose judgment is true.\nAll the men eagerly watched him entering the threshold\nmade for God, and they themselves in turn\nrejoiced to step forward or stand facing it,\nwhen suddenly, dreadful to see, a shining cloud glides\nfrom heaven and floods the top of the highest temple;\nand while the pious prophet walks there and then returns,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1242 (CSEL 23:100lines 1242–1264–101; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1242)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1265":{"o":"aedibus in domini semper se condidit Auses\nnusquam progrediens. at uates dicta reuoluit\ncum domino consueta sibi, quaeque antea non sunt\nmortali concessa uiro, deposcit. ut ora\ncomminus aspiciat domini ueneranda beati.\nutque deus procerem semper comitetur euntem.\nquamlibet aetherius uallaret nuntius illum.\nadnuitur dictisque deus sublimibus infit.\nquae facienda prius, quam tanti gratia doni\nobtutus pascat mundana inuisere suetos.\n\"Heia age, deproperans rupem conscende minacem\net gressum defige tuum, ac dum meus alto\nsic rediens decurrit honor, sub fornice saxi,\numbratus mea dextra, mane, dum praepete cursu\npraeteriens refero diuinae umbracula palmae.\ntum tantum spectare dei postrema meantis\ncrura potes: uultum non fas est uisere cuiquam\nspirantum ex numero, mundana quos fouet aura.\"\nhaec, fuerant ut iussa, fiunt; mox caute dolata\nconsimiles tabulas diuina ad iura reformat\nconsuetamque sibi solitis de cursibus arcem\nincomitatus adit montemque accedere iuxta\nnon patitur cunctos ipsasque eliminat illinc\nlanigeras pecudes, quia sunt contigua noxae\ntalia: corruptis nequaquam sancta cohaerent.","t":"Joshua always kept himself in the house of the Lord,\nnever going out. But the prophet goes over his accustomed words\nwith the Lord and asks for things not granted before\nto mortal man: that he might see close at hand\nthe venerable face of the blessed Lord,\nand that God might always accompany the chief as he goes,\nhowever much a heavenly messenger guarded him.\nIt is granted, and God begins in lofty words\nwhat must be done before the grace of so great a gift\nmay feed eyes used to seeing worldly things:\n“Come, make haste, climb the threatening rock\nand plant your step, and while my glory runs down\nfrom on high, returning thus, stay under the arch of the rock,\nshaded by my right hand, while, passing by in swift course,\nI take back the shade of the divine palm.\nThen you can see only the back of God as he goes;\nit is not right for any of the number of those who breathe,\nwhom the air of the world sustains, to see the face.”\nThese things are done as commanded; soon, with rock hewn,\nhe makes like tablets again for the divine laws\nand goes alone to the summit familiar to him from his usual ascents,\nand does not allow anyone to approach near the mountain,\nand removes from there even the woolly flocks, because such things\nare close to guilt: holy things never cleave to the corrupt.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1265 (CSEL 23:101lines 1265–1289–102; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1265)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1290":{"o":"ilicet optatis domini sermonibus usus\ncognoscit uentura suis seque ingerit ultro:\n\"O domine, quem larga facit clementia magnum\nin caelo terraque tuis, tu mitis in aula\naetheria solusque potens, iustissimus idem,\nindulgens pariter populis, quos mundus ubique\nlaetus habet tota dominum cum mente fatentes:\ntu cunctos de fraude leuas, tu quidquid iniquum est,\ncondonare potes, solus quia crimine cares;\nidem mortiferos solitus damnare reatus\nin prolem natosque patrum natosque natorum:\nnobiscum praecelsa deus uirtute maneto.\nnam plebs ista ferox rigida ceruice superbit;\ncrimine si cuius commissa piacula donas,\nuiuemus per saecla tui.\" mox sanctus ab aula\neffatur dominus caeli, quae iusserat ante;\nut, cum uulnifica populus post bella quiesset,\notia respiciens, tantum consortia nosset\nde populo concessa suo, ne forte uirorum\nincautas mentes fallaci cluderet astu\nconiunx sumpta foris profanaque sacra doceret.\niamque quaterdenos celeri cum lumine soles\ntriuerat hic uates, nullamque adsumpserat escam,\nieiunum referens ad castra ingentia pectus.","t":"At once, having enjoyed the longed-for words of the Lord,\nhe learns what is to come for his people and offers himself freely:\n“O Lord, whom bountiful mercy makes great\nfor your own in heaven and on earth, gentle in the heavenly hall,\nalone mighty and likewise most just,\ngracious alike to the peoples whom the glad world everywhere holds\nwho confess the Lord with all their mind:\nyou lift all from their offences, you can forgive\nwhatever is unjust, because you alone are without crime;\nyou are likewise wont to condemn deadly guilt\non the offspring and children of the fathers and the children’s children:\nremain with us, God, in your surpassing power.\nFor this fierce people is proud with stiff neck;\nif you forgive the sins committed by their crime,\nwe shall live through the ages as yours.” Soon the holy Lord\nof heaven speaks from his hall what he had commanded before:\nthat when the people rested after wounding wars,\nturning to leisure, they should know only marriages\nallowed from their own people, lest perhaps a wife\ntaken from outside should ensnare the unwary minds of men\nwith deceitful cunning and teach profane rites.\nAnd now this prophet had spent forty suns\nwith their swift light and had taken no food,\nbringing back a fasting breast to the vast camp.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1290 (CSEL 23:102lines 1290–1313; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1290)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.1314":{"o":"illum conspicuae fulgentem lampade flammae\nobtutus timuere uirum fraterque ueretur\nmortales reuocans fulgenti a lumine uisus.\nnescius at uates subitae uirtutis honorem\nsacrato fulsisse sibi, formidine plebis\nnoscitat inmensi uelandum luminis ictum,\nne Iudaea cohors cum uisu auerteret aures.\nsed cum pacifica domini se ad uerba ferebat,\nlutea perspicuo tollebat lintea peplo.\nilicet exhibitis populo certante metallis\net quae Sidonio tinguntur uellera luto,\nartibus eximiis sacratam perficit aedem.\nquam dominus missa sublimis nube repleuit\nin tantum, ut uates non posset scandere postes\nsanctificos, quamuis toto se limine uelum\npanderet et foribus custos non obuius esset.\nHaec cum mobilibus sese dimouerat auris.\ncastra mouebantur; nox rursum sueta reuerti\nfulgebat rubrae nimio de lumine flammae.\ndum uolucris deferuet apex numenque praesentat.","t":"They feared to look at him, shining with the conspicuous lamp of flame,\nand his brother is in awe and turns his mortal eyes\naway from the shining light.\nBut the prophet, not knowing that the honour of a sudden power\nhad shone on his consecrated person, learns from the people’s fear\nthat the stroke of the immense light must be veiled,\nlest the Jewish band turn away their ears along with their eyes.\nBut whenever he betook himself to the peaceful words of the Lord,\nhe took off the yellow linen veil.\nAt once, the people eagerly bringing out their metals\nand fleeces dyed with Sidonian dye,\nhe completes the consecrated house with outstanding arts.\nThe Lord on high filled it with a cloud he sent,\nso much that the prophet could not pass the holy\ndoorposts, though the veil was spread across the whole threshold\nand no guard stood in the way at the doors.\nWhen this cloud had moved away on moving breezes,\nthe camp was moved; and night, wont to return,\nshone with the excessive light of red flame,\nwhile the flying point burns and shows the divine presence.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.1314 (CSEL 23:102lines 1314–1334–103; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-1314)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.144":{"o":"\"Iam conperta mihi totoque (et) lumine uisa\nplebis uota meae, uastis quae molibus urbes\nextruit et duris operum sudoribus acta\nAegypti sublimat opes et non sua regna;\nseruili dum mente pauet, crebroque dolore\nangitur, arbitrio dudum subiecta nocentum.\natque ideo huc ueni celso degressus olympo,\nut tuear tollamque meos de sede Canopi,\nmagnarum largitor opum terraeque feracis,\nquam nunc multimodis opimam frugibus audax\nChannanaeus habet Cethaeo et iunctus Amorreus,\nPherezaea manu Gergessorumque sequente,\nquamque simul perfundens colit Euaeaque pubes.\ndulcibus hic scatebris opimo e flumine mella\nalbenti cum lacte fluunt; haec dona daturus\nelectis te pono ducem, te pergere mando\nregis ad optutus, ut quae sunt iussa renarres.\nac ne, praetrepidus coeptu, infirmere sub actu,\ntecum semper ero. qui libertate reuersa\nhoc in colle mihi sensu luminibus ouanti.\"\nHaec ubi detonuit dominus, fiducia uatem\nparua tenet primum. mox nomen quaerit aeternum\nquod habeat dominus, ut signum Iudaea noscat\nprincipis inpositi. saluator talia iungit:","t":"“Now the prayers of my people are known to me and seen with all my light,\nwho build cities of vast masses\nand, driven by the hard sweat of their labours,\nraise up the wealth of Egypt and realms not their own,\nwhile they tremble with servile mind and are tormented\nwith frequent pain, long subject to the will of the guilty.\nAnd so I have come here, descending from high Olympus,\nto protect my own and take them from the seat of Canopus,\nthe giver of great wealth and of a fertile land,\nwhich now the bold Canaanite holds, rich with manifold fruits,\nand the Amorite joined to the Hittite,\nthe band of the Perizzites, and the Girgashites following,\nand which the Hivite youth also tills.\nHere from sweet springs, from a rich stream, honey flows\nwith white milk. Being about to give these gifts\nto the chosen, I set you as leader; I command you to go\ninto the king’s sight and recount what is commanded.\nAnd lest, trembling at the undertaking, you should weaken in the act,\nI will always be with you; and when freedom has returned,\nyou shall worship me on this hill with rejoicing mind and eyes.”\nWhen the Lord had thundered these words, little confidence\nholds the prophet at first. Soon he asks for the eternal name\nthe Lord bears, so that Judea may know the sign\nof the prince set over them. The Saviour adds these words:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.144 (CSEL 23:61lines 144–167–62; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-144)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.168":{"o":"\"Ille ego sum qui sum, sic dices, et super (astra)\nqui uiget, estque deus uestrorum a stirpe parentum:\ninmensus ubicumque deus gentesque per omnes,\nuiuorum per saecla sator non luce carentum.\nhoc mihi nomen inest, collem hoc fare coactis;\nqui tum pacificas dimittant dicta per aures.\ningressique simul regis Pharaonis in aulam\nIsrahelitarum dominum iussisse superne\ndicatis, ut trina die deserta per arua\nincedat Iudaea phalanx et munera sancto\nimmolet apta deo ritumque obseruet auorum.\nnamque meam plebem tumidus laxare tyrannus\npost cladem pestemque uolet, quae crebra profundo\nmittatur caelo, multis uariata periclis.\nquin etiam fuerit cum facta licentia uobis,\nut iussum carpatis iter, tum femina poscat\nuicinam notamue sibi, quae diuite censu\nAegyptus nunc mollis habet, petitaque sumat,\nut legio informes heremi ducenda per agros\nnobilibus spoliis uacuatam linquat Aegyptum.\nPost haec signa petit uates, quae forte labantes\nconfirmare queant animos, si lumine cerni\nnon credant potuisse deum tam candida fantem,\npraecipitur lentam propere dimittere uirgam\net laxare manu; quam postquam terra recepit,\nspumeus in spiram tractu se colligit anguis\nterrorem incutiens proceri; quem prendere cauda\niussus in antiquam redigit reuocatque figuram.","t":"“I am who I am: so you shall say; and he\nwho lives above the stars and is God from the stock of your fathers;\nGod immeasurable, everywhere and through all nations,\nthe sower through the ages of the living who do not lack light.\nThis name is mine; tell this to those gathered;\nlet them pass the words on through peaceful ears.\nAnd entering together into the hall of King Pharaoh,\nsay that the Lord of the Israelites has commanded from above\nthat for three days the Jewish host go through the desert fields\nand sacrifice fitting gifts to the holy God\nand observe the rite of their forefathers.\nFor the proud tyrant will be willing to release my people\nafter slaughter and plague, sent often from the depths\nof heaven, varied with many perils.\nMoreover, when leave has been given you\nto take the commanded journey, then let each woman ask\nher neighbour or acquaintance for the rich wealth\nthat soft Egypt now holds, and take what she asks,\nso that the legion, to be led through the formless fields of the desert,\nmay leave Egypt emptied of noble spoils.”\nAfter this the prophet asks for signs that might strengthen\nwavering minds, if they should not believe that God\ncould have been seen with eyes speaking such bright things;\nhe is told quickly to let down his pliant rod\nand loose it from his hand; when the earth received it,\na foaming serpent gathers itself into a coil with its trail,\nstriking terror into the chief; told to seize it by the tail,\nhe brings it back and restores it to its old shape.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.168 (CSEL 23:62lines 168–195–63; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-168)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.196":{"o":"inde manum sinibus condens candore niuali\nprotulit, atque iterum tectam deprompsit: et olli\nin speciem reuoluta suam. tum deinde monetur,\nhaec si parua forent, sumptam de flumine lympham\nfundere et albentem rubro mutare cruore.\nnec minus obniti uates tenuemque loquellam\ndicere, et obstrictam nodis uix promere uocem,\nquod cordis secreta uelent; nil denique dignum\nesse sibi, quod mens hominum subnixa sequatur.\narguitur nullum, domino nisi dante, politis\nsensibus effari, nec longa silentia mutos\nrumpere, loquuntur dominus laxaret uincula linguae;\ntempora qui reserat surdis, qui lumina caecis,\nuidentumque aciem qui pura luce serenat.\n\"Vade, ait, et plena confisus fare loquella,\nnobilis eloquio sensuque ad uerba rotundo.\"\nsed dum saepe deum poscit aliumque precatur\nsubstitui subdique sibi. conmouit in iram\ninsignem pietate deum, qui concitus infit:\n\"Germanus est ecce tuus limata facundus\nora gerens notusque mihi, Leuita creatus\nille tribu, certo quem dicunt nomine Aronem.\"\nIlicet abscedit uates soceroque fatetur\nsese reuersurum fratresque inuisere uelle\nIudaea de gente satos. hic flectitur ille\net salua pietate iubet discedere laetum.","t":"Then, hiding his hand in his bosom, he brought it out\nsnow-white, and covered it again and drew it out, and it\nwas turned back to its own appearance. Then he is told\nthat, if these were small things, he should pour out water taken from the river\nand change its whiteness into red blood.\nYet the prophet resists and says that his speech is thin\nand his voice, bound in knots, scarcely comes out,\nbecause it veils the secrets of the heart; in short, that there is nothing\nin him worthy for the minds of men to follow and rely on.\nHe is rebuked: no one speaks with polished understanding\nunless the Lord grants it, nor do the dumb break long silences\nunless the Lord loosens the bonds of the tongue,\nhe who opens hearing to the deaf and sight to the blind,\nand clears with pure light the vision of those who see.\n“Go,” he says, “and speak with full speech in confidence,\nnoble in eloquence and with meaning well rounded into words.”\nBut while he keeps asking God and begs that another\nbe substituted and put in his place, he moved to anger\nGod, outstanding in mercy, who, roused, begins:\n“See, your brother is eloquent, with a polished\nmouth, and known to me, born a Levite\nof that tribe, whom they call by the sure name of Aaron.”\nAt once the prophet goes and tells his father-in-law\nthat he will return and wishes to visit his brothers,\nsprung from the Jewish race. Here the other yields\nand, with due affection kept, bids him go gladly.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.196 (CSEL 23:63lines 196–221–64; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-196)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.22":{"o":"haec ubi dicta, uiros sollertes praeficit illis,\nut muros turresque nouent portasque minaces\nconisi caelo iungant. quis casibus acti\noppida sudato condunt nonnulla labore,\nRamassum, Pythona dehinc, et nomine Solis\nEtonum insignem. sed mirum, quo mage tristi\nlaborum sub fasce fuit, hoc cuncta iuuentus\nfortior emicuit, ueluti feriata maneret.\nterretur magis atque magis rex toruus Aegypti\nexitioque uouet nondum sua iussa timentes,\npraecipiens defluxit, pariant cum germina fetae,\nextinguant perdantque mares, nec poena +referre\nad maritas, si iuratae despecta relinquant:\nquarum Phua fuit socia cum tenens dicta.\nquae terrore dei timida inter corda locato\nductoris tempsere minas atque, adfore iussae,\nHebraeas nullo dicunt solamine fultas\nmaturos propere consuesse effundere fetus.\nquae propter domini meruerunt dicta fauorem,\nconsuetis sese gaudentes condere tectis,\ndum dominum toto laudantes corde uerentur.\nVertitur imperium proceris populusque monetur\nprogenitos Nili pueros mersare fluento.\nparet turba duci nascentes flumine mergens.","t":"When this was said, he sets skilful men over them,\nto build new walls and towers and threatening gates\nand strive to join them to heaven. Driven by these misfortunes,\nthey build several towns with sweating labour,\nRameses, then Pithom, and On, famous for the name\nof the Sun. But a marvel: the more they were under the sad\nburden of labour, the stronger the whole youth\nshone forth, as though it were on holiday.\nThe grim king of Egypt is terrified more and more\nand devotes to destruction those who did not yet fear his commands,\nordering the midwives, when the mothers bear their offspring,\nto extinguish and destroy the males, with † punishment\nfor the midwives if, though sworn, they left the despised order undone;\nof whom Puah was one, with her companion.\nThey, the terror of God set in their timid hearts,\nscorned the leader’s threats and, ordered to appear,\nsay that the Hebrew women, supported by no help,\nare accustomed to bring forth their ripe offspring quickly.\nFor this they deserved by the Lord’s word his favour,\nrejoicing to settle in their accustomed homes,\nwhile they revere the Lord, praising him with all their heart.\nThe chief’s order is changed, and the people are told\nto drown in the stream of the Nile the boys who are born.\nThe crowd obeys the leader, drowning the newborn in the river.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.22 (CSEL 23:58lines 22–45; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-22)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.222":{"o":"ille alacris secum natis et coniuge sumpta\nmandatum praecepit iter; fessusque uiando.\ndum refouet uires, gelida declinis in umbra.\nangelus ecce uenit domini mortemque minatur.\nSephora sed silicem digitis rimatur acutam\npraeputiumque secat teneri mox sedula nati;\ncumque pedes coram sancti se prona dedisset:\n\"Sistatur cruor iste, canit, de uulnere parui.\ncuius ad eloquium sanctus discessit ad astra.\niamque inopis heremi uates calcabat harenas,\ncum subito imperio domini mandantis Aronus\nsacratum ad montem fraterno occurrit honori\nconiunctique simul gaudentes basia figunt;\nalternasque iuuat mentes sermone sequaci\npandere quemque sibi, quae sint facienda uel acta.\nilicet eloquio domini coniungit uterque\nsinceram firmamque fidem, pariterque uadentes\naccitis dicunt senibus, quae sit\nmandatumque dei; signisque ex ordine factis\ncredidit optatam populus remeasse medellam.\net genua inflectens dominum subnixus adorat.\npergitur ad regem, caeco nil corde uidentem\ncredentemue deo, quem notum non fere dixit\nesse sibi, populum dura sub lege cohercens\nimperioque truci; dum crescit cura laborum\net geminatur opus pondusque adiungitur ingens\nlateribus crudis, quos solis lampada tostat.","t":"He eagerly, taking his sons and wife with him,\nset out on the commanded journey; and, weary with travelling,\nwhile he restores his strength, lying down in the cool shade,\nsee, an angel of the Lord comes and threatens death.\nBut Zipporah searches with her fingers for a sharp flint\nand at once, diligently, cuts the foreskin of her tender son;\nand when she had thrown herself prone before the feet of the holy one,\n“Let this blood from the little one’s wound be stanched,” she cries.\nAt her words the holy one departed to the stars.\nAnd now the prophet was treading the sands of the barren desert,\nwhen suddenly, by command of the Lord, Aaron\nmet his honoured brother at the sacred mountain,\nand, joined together, they rejoice and plant kisses;\nand it delights them to reveal to each other in flowing talk\nwhat must be done or what has been done.\nAt once both join to the Lord’s word\na sincere and firm faith, and, going together,\nthey tell the elders they have summoned what is\nthe command of God; and when the signs were done in order,\nthe people believed that the longed-for remedy had come back,\nand, bending the knee, prostrate, worships the Lord.\nThey go to the king, who sees nothing with his blind heart\nand does not believe God, whom he said was not known\nto him, keeping the people under a harsh law\nand cruel command, while the burden of labour grows\nand the work is doubled and an immense weight is added\nto the raw bricks, which the sun’s lamp bakes.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.222 (CSEL 23:64lines 222–248–65; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-222)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.249":{"o":"quin etiam paleas rimosae ad uincula terrae\nmadentisque luti solitas miscerier aufert,\nut plebs fessa malis animos deponere mallet\nexiliumque pati. quae dum confecta maerore\nuerberibus agitur duris, effudit in ipsos\niurgia pontifices, adflictam se fore clamans\nacre magis, postquam inmodicis sermonibus usi\nseruitium miserum pro libertate pararint.\nHaec ut dicta sibi domino suggessit aeterno\nmitificus uates, haec rursus uerba receptat:\n\"Ecce deum regis Pharaonis te fore iussi,\ngermanumque tuum studio seruire prophetae\net parere tibi. tu dices cognita fratri;\nille canet regi, ut plebem emittere curet.\niamque pius uates bis quadraginta per annos\npacificam uitam mortali in carne terebat.\nhi dum sanctificis regem mollire loquellis\npercupiunt et signa nouant, nil lubricus anguis\nproiecta factus uirga, nil sanguine rubro\nmutati cogunt amnes, nil mobilis unda.\npiscibus extinctis tristi uitiata fetore,\nidcirco quoniam cantu succincta sinistro\nmens profana uirum paribus callebat in actis.","t":"Moreover he takes away the straw usually mixed\nas a binding into the cracking earth and wet clay,\nso that the people, weary with evils, would rather lose heart\nand suffer exile. While, worn with grief,\nit is driven with harsh blows, it poured out reproaches\non the priests themselves, crying that it was more sharply afflicted\nsince, by their immoderate speeches,\nthey had procured wretched slavery in place of freedom.\nWhen the gentle prophet had brought these words to the eternal Lord,\nhe receives these words in return:\n“See, I have ordered you to be a god to King Pharaoh,\nand your brother to serve the prophet with zeal\nand obey you. You will tell your brother what you have learned;\nhe will declare it to the king, that he take care to send out the people.”\nAnd now the pious prophet was spending twice forty years\nof peaceful life in mortal flesh.\nWhile they eagerly desire to soften the king with holy speeches\nand renew the signs, the slippery serpent made\nfrom the thrown rod achieves nothing, nor do the rivers changed\ninto red blood compel anything, nor the moving water\nfouled with sad stench, the fish dead,\nbecause the profane mind of men, girded with sinister chant,\nwas skilled in like deeds.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.249 (CSEL 23:65lines 249–271–66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-249)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.272":{"o":"quin etiam similes faciunt prorepere ranas\nqua tellus, qua fluctus erat, paribusque creantur\nmagorum canore modis, quas uoce crepanti\ncuncta coaxantes studuit depellere uates.\nfluminibus tantum non passus defore suetas.\noblatum id regi, si pestem euadere uellet\norantis per uota senis, ut deinde. liqueret\nnon alium regnare deum: lux crastina caelo\nredditur atque eadem cunctae de morte necantur\ncongestaeque simul odio soluuntur acerbo.\ngignuntur scinifes propere per corpora cuncta\nquadrupedum hominumque ( simul) tellusque repletur.\nhoc etiam Chaldaea cohors molita fatetur\nesse manum domini, curamque omittit inanem.\nHis actis cynomyia fluit, quae musca canina\ndicitur, et uatis conpleuit nutibus omnes\nexspatiata locos solique haut cognita Gessae,\nquae tum terra fuit Iudaeae commoda genti,\ntraxit inexhaustos, quacumque est acta, dolores.\ntum uero uictus Pharaon abscedere mandat,\net quocumque uelint migrantes promere gressus,\nac uotis seruire deo; pariterque precatur,\nut praesens nimiumque malum discedat ab aruis\nAegypti tandemque deus clementior adsit.","t":"Moreover they make frogs creep forth likewise\nwherever there was land and water, and they are produced\nby the magicians’ chant in like ways; these, all croaking with rattling voice,\nthe prophet took care to drive away,\nonly not allowing the rivers to lack their usual ones.\nThis was granted the king, if he wished to escape the plague,\nthrough the old man’s prayers, so that it might then be clear\nthat no other god reigns: tomorrow’s light is given back\nto the sky, and on that day all of them die\nand, heaped together, dissolve in bitter stench.\nGnats are quickly born over all the bodies\nof beasts and men together, and the land is filled.\nThis too the Chaldean band, having tried it, confesses\nto be the hand of the Lord, and gives up its vain effort.\nThese things done, the cynomyia comes flowing, which is called\nthe dog-fly, and at the prophet’s nod filled every place,\nspreading out, and unknown only to the soil of Goshen,\nwhich was then the land suited to the Jewish race;\nwherever it was driven, it brought inexhaustible pains.\nThen indeed Pharaoh, defeated, bids them go\nand, migrating, take their steps wherever they wish\nand serve God with vows; and at the same time he begs\nthat the present and excessive evil depart from the fields\nof Egypt and that God at last be present with more mercy.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.272 (CSEL 23:66lines 272–295–67; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-272)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.296":{"o":"nec mora: cum subiti mittuntur funera leti\nconiunctimque necant omnes. sed cornea fibra\nquae fuerat in rege, redit: mox mittitur una\niumentis gregibusque lues mortesque sequentes,\nIudaea perdente nihil. tum cassa fauilla\nfornacis deprompta sinu uibratur in astra\narentesque ciet papulas per membra uirorum\nuesicasque cauas, nulloque exsorte relicto\nomnimodis gregibus generant tormenta per agros.\nsed renouata mali facies instabat inerti\nnequiquam regi, quo laus sublimior esset\nmutantis tot monstra dei: ecce inter et ignes,\nfulgura quos iaciunt, et celsi murmura caeli\nquae domino mandante crepant, decurrit ab astris\ngrando minax passimque rotat frigentia tela,\nquae densa de caute uolant, hominesque carentes\ntegmine tectorum conliso [stellas corpore trudit\natque necat cunctumque pecus; et cortice rupto\ndebilitat siluas libroque extinguit arente,\ninuisitata prius saeclisque incognita priscis.\ntriticeas segetes nondum pubentibus herbis\natque alicam modo strauit humi; nam cetera mersit,\nquae conspersa solo nondum deprompserat occa.","t":"Without delay, when the dead of the sudden destruction are sent away\nand perish all together, the horny fibre\nthat had been in the king returns; soon a plague is sent at once\non beasts of burden and flocks, and deaths follow,\nJudea losing nothing. Then empty ash,\ndrawn from the bosom of a furnace, is tossed toward the stars\nand raises dry pustules over the limbs of men\nand hollow blisters, and, leaving no one exempt,\nthey bring torments through the fields on flocks of every kind.\nBut a renewed face of evil pressed in vain\non the sluggish king, so that the praise of God,\nwho works so many wonders, might be higher: see, amid the fires\nthat lightnings hurl and the rumblings of the lofty sky\nthat crash at the Lord’s command, threatening hail\nruns down from the stars and whirls its freezing darts everywhere,\nflying thick as from a rock, and men without\nthe cover of roofs it strikes with crushing blows\nand kills, and all the cattle; and, breaking the bark,\nit cripples the woods and kills them as the inner bark dries,\nunseen before and unknown to ancient ages.\nThe wheat crops, since their stalks had not yet grown,\nand the spelt it only laid flat on the ground; for the rest it buried,\nwhich, sown in the soil, the harrow had not yet brought up.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.296 (CSEL 23:67lines 296–318; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-296)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.319":{"o":"haec etiam amittit uires poscente propheta,\nperspicuo remeante die; quia pectore fracto\ndebilis orarat ductor, dum crimina pandit\nipse sua iustumque deum denarrat in altis.\necce iterum insano rigidantur pectora sensu\nuiuentis ad damna ducis peiora laturi,\nnec sociis credit casum pereuntis Aegypti.\nsed tamen nexus modice largitur eundi\nius, uacuis rerum, uitae quas conparat usus.\nnon patitur uates censumque expostulat omnem\nquadrupedumque greges; sed iusta oratio non est\nauribus inuitis. haec propter pellitur extra.\nfratre simul truso. tum uentus flamine multo\nauster adest fuscatque diem noctisque per umbram\ninmodico glomerat uiridantes terga locustas,\nquae, quidquid madidum suco per frondea tecta\nreppererant, mandunt herbasque in caespite laetas.\nhaec deinde metu regis poscente necantur\ncongestaeque simul Rubra merguntur in unda.\nhaec ubi pro paruis toruus rex despuit ore,\nnox omnes delapsa tenet uastaeque procellae\nincludunt cohibentque uiros, pariterque diebus\nocculti mansere tribus nullusque propinquum\nuidit et ex inopi potuit consurgere lecto,\ncum radiantes manus mundo frueretur aperto\nnullis tacta malis. quin et cursantibus ipsis\ninnocui tacuere canes pressoque latratu\nintrepidi lambunt caudae de uerbere crura,\nnonnumquam in dominos posita formidine saeui.","t":"This too loses its strength at the prophet’s request,\nclear day returning, because, his heart broken,\nthe weakened leader had prayed, confessing\nhis crimes himself and declaring God just on high.\nSee, again his heart is stiffened with insane mind,\nto bring worse things upon himself to the ruin of the living leader,\nnor does he believe his companions about the fall of perishing Egypt.\nBut yet he grants a limited right of going,\nto men stripped of the things that the use of life provides.\nThe prophet does not allow it and demands all their property\nand the herds of four-footed beasts; but just speech is not\nfor unwilling ears. For this he is driven out,\nhis brother thrust out with him. Then the south wind arrives\nwith much blast and darkens the day, and through the shade of night\ngathers green-backed locusts beyond measure,\nwhich eat whatever moist and full of sap they found\nthrough the leafy roofs, and the glad grass in the turf.\nThese then, at the king’s request in his fear, are killed\nand, gathered together, drowned in the Red Sea.\nWhen the grim king spat these things out as trifles,\nnight, gliding down, holds all, and vast storms\nshut in and confine the men, and likewise for three days\nthey stayed hidden, and no one saw his neighbour\nor could rise from his helpless bed,\nwhile the radiant band enjoyed the open world,\ntouched by no evils. Moreover, as they ran about,\nthe dogs were silent and harmless and, holding back their bark,\nfearlessly lick their legs, wagging their tails,\ndogs that at times, their fear laid aside, are savage even against their masters.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.319 (CSEL 23:67lines 319–347–68; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-319)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.348":{"o":"non tamen his damnis regis sententia cedit\nincrepitatque fremens uatem mortemque minatur,\nquod pecora et totum uellet conuerrere censum.\niamque deus piceo noctem fuscarat amictu,\noccultam meditans densa inter funera plagam,\ncum subita intereunt morte, quos partibus almae\nediderant primis, modico discrimine leti,\nipsius (a) solio regis, cunctosque deinde\nquacumque de stirpe uiros pecudesque ferasque.\nilicet horrisonas uoces dolor excitat ingens,\nomnia tecta fremunt, resonant plangoribus urbes.\ntum uero incumbunt omnes detrudere plebem,\nIudaeum quae nomen habet, ceu causa malorum\nilla foret meritis, censusque et cuncta supellex\ntraditur et nullum putatur hinc fore damnum:\ninnumerique greges pecudum comitantur euntes.\nergo abeunt ducente deo, qui praeuius ibat,\ncontentisque uehunt umeris commercia uitae.\nIamque quater centum mundus consumpserat annos,\natque quater denos pariter, si summa putetur\ntemporis emensi, quo farris cura parandi\nIacobus Pharias uenit mansurus ad urbes;\nhis deus expletis tandem miseratus ab alto,\nsustulit indomito plebem laudabilis hosti.","t":"Yet the king’s resolve does not yield to these losses;\nroaring, he rebukes the prophet and threatens him with death,\nbecause he wanted to sweep away the cattle and all their property.\nAnd now God had darkened the night with a pitch-black mantle,\nplanning a hidden blow amid thick deaths,\nwhen suddenly all die whom kindly births\nhad brought forth first, with little difference in their death,\nfrom the king’s own throne, and then all\nof whatever stock, men and cattle and beasts.\nAt once immense grief raises horrid-sounding cries;\nall the houses groan, the cities resound with lamentation.\nThen indeed all press to drive out the people\nthat bears the name of Jew, as though by its deserts\nit were the cause of the evils, and property and all furnishings\nare handed over, and no loss is reckoned in this;\nand countless flocks of cattle accompany them as they go.\nSo they depart, God leading them, who went before,\nand carry on their burdened shoulders the goods of life.\nAnd now the world had used up four hundred years\nand forty more, if one reckons the sum\nof the time elapsed since Jacob, in his care to obtain grain,\ncame to the Egyptian cities to remain;\nthese fulfilled, God, pitying at last from on high,\nworthy of praise, took the people from the untamed enemy.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.348 (CSEL 23:68lines 348–371–69; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-348)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.372":{"o":"flumina dies primo censetur munere paschae,\nsacrataeque deo ducuntur gaudia noctis,\nseptenique dies, anno redeunte, beati\notia lenta ferunt curaque omittitur omnis;\nnemo solum uertit curuique inmunis aratri\nsopitur per metitur labor seruique laetantur\nlibertate pari omnisque est actio uitae\niungere corda deo stratisque incumbere lectis\net dubios inferre cibos, quos ditibus aruis\nfelix terra creat. agnusque adsumitur albens,\nmensibus explicitis, bissenos quos facit annus,\ninteger et toto grege mollior: hoc simul omnes\nmandere lex adigit sanctaeque adponere mensae\nossibus intactis, cuiusque e sanguine postes\ntinguere mundificum tutamque adquirere uitam.\nius omnes commune tenet atque aere parati\net locare manus soliti praeputia ponunt\nfestiuosque cibos agni de uiscere sumunt.\nnec quidquam superesse licet; si rara corona\nomnia non carpsit, uicinum adiungere fas campi\nfermento carent panes mollisque farina\nfontibus admixtis tenues formatur in orbes,\nazyma quos memorant patrio sermone terit.\nista haec sacra fiunt cunctis redeuntibus flumine.","t":"The first day is reckoned by the gift of the Passover,\nand the joys of the night consecrated to God are celebrated,\nand seven blessed days, as the year returns,\nbring slow leisure, and every care is set aside;\nno one turns the soil, and, free from the curved plough,\nlabour sleeps and slaves rejoice\nin equal freedom, and the whole business of life\nis to join hearts to God, to recline on spread couches\nand to bring in the food that the happy earth\nproduces in its rich fields. And a white lamb is taken,\nwhen the months are complete that make the year twice six,\nunblemished and softer than all the flock; this all together\nthe law compels to eat and to set on the holy table\nwith its bones unbroken, and with its blood to dye the doorposts\nfor cleansing and so to gain a safe life.\nA common law binds all, and those bought with money\nand those used to hire out their hands lay aside their foreskins\nand take the festive food from the lamb’s flesh.\nNor may anything remain; if a small company\nhas not eaten it all, it is right to bring in a neighbour from the field.\nThe loaves lack leaven, and soft flour,\nmixed with spring water, is formed into thin rounds,\nwhich they call azyma in their native tongue.\nThese rites are performed by all as the years return.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.372 (CSEL 23:69lines 372–395–70; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-372)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.396":{"o":"quattuor atque decem postquam decurrere luces\nmense nouo cernunt homines ratione magistra.\nsollicitaque sinus constringunt cura fluentes,\nintenti, ceu signa canant bellumque geratur,\narmataeque manus baculorum robora gestant.\ninsuper arripiunt pallentis gramen hysopi\ndeuotaque manu sacrato in sanguine mersant\nexcussumque procul foribus conspergere gaudent,\npostibus ut caris concrescat nobilis unda,\nquae uetat introitum temptantis sancta maligni.\niamque gradum ad quintum numquid descenderat ordo,\ncum, deserta petens. Rubrum ueniebat ad aequor\ncara deo pubes bustisque exempta Iosepi\nossa gerens, uero qui quondam dixerat ore\nserenos domini intuitus dextramque benignam\nuenturam caelo libertatemque laturam.\nSochotumque dehinc ueniunt Othumque relinquunt,\nignotas monstrante uias per deuia Christo,\nqui cum mane nouo lucem pandebat ab astris,\nante uolans niuea sulcabat sidera nube\ncandentemque iubar fuscata per aethera solem\nnocte tegens, claro fulgebat crine cometae.\nPauleum deinde petunt, cui Magdola tellus\niungitur obuerso confinis Bellisephoni.","t":"After four and ten days had run their course\nin the new month, which men discern with reason as teacher,\nthey bind their flowing garments with anxious care,\nintent, as if the trumpets sounded and war were waged,\nand their armed hands carry strong staffs.\nMoreover they take a sprig of pale hyssop,\ndip it with devoted hand in the sacred blood,\nand gladly sprinkle the doors, shaking it out,\nso that the noble liquid may harden on the dear posts\nand forbid entry to the evil one who assails holy things.\nAnd now the generations had come down to the fifth,\nwhen, making for the desert, the people dear to God\ncame to the Red Sea, carrying the bones of Joseph\ntaken from his tomb, who had once said with truthful mouth\nthat the Lord’s serene gaze and kindly right hand\nwould come from heaven and bring freedom.\nThen they come to Succoth and leave Etham,\nChrist showing them unknown ways through the trackless waste,\nwho, when at new morning he opened the light from the stars,\nflying before them, ploughed the sky with a snowy cloud,\nand, covering the shining radiance of the sun through the darkened sky\nat night, shone with a comet’s bright hair.\nThen they make for Pi-hahiroth, to which the land of Migdol\nis joined, bordering on Baal-zephon opposite.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.396 (CSEL 23:70lines 396–419–71; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-396)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.420":{"o":"hic animum regis dominus formidine priuat,\npraetumidos acuens sensus mentemque ferocem;\nut populum fugitare magis, quem miserat ipse,\ndiceret atque suas acies in bella moueret\npraecipites. facili credens conamine iungi\nposse uiros, quos error agat, quos deuia tardent.\nergo alacris in bella ciet ceu parua phalanges\nferratos agitans currus, quos axe uolante\ntrinus miles agit, uolucrem dum surgit in hastam,\nnunc humilis, nunc uentosas sublimis in auras,\nterroris fraudisque capax, quia uerbere crebro\npulsati sternunt acies, quae comminus obstant,\ncornipedes pulsumque rotis feruentibus addunt,\nincita quas uariis adsultibus ungula uersat.\niamque (iter) adcelerans procurua ad litora Rubri\nmarmoris admorat frigente in bella quadrigas,\ncum Iudaea manus confestim lumine uerso\nrespicit inmensas acies camposque per omnes\nferratos lucere uiros, geminique timoris\nmole pari saepta, dum pontum cernit et hostem\noppositum, duris in uatem uocibus usa\nhaec memorat: \"Quae tanta fuit fiducia, ductor,\nroboris insueti cognatam perdere plebem\nac perferre sequi Rubrumque opponere captis\noceanum? quid maesta quidem, sed tuta ferentes\npondera ab inuisa nequiquam tollere Aegypto?","t":"Here the Lord deprives the king’s mind of fear,\nsharpening his swollen senses and fierce mind,\nso that he says the people whom he himself had sent away\nwere rather fleeing, and moves his forces headlong\nto war, believing that with easy effort he could catch\nmen whom error drives and trackless ways delay.\nSo eagerly he calls his phalanxes to war as to a small matter,\ndriving iron-clad chariots, which with flying axle\na threefold crew drives, while one rises to hurl the swift spear,\nnow low, now lofty into the windy air,\napt for terror and deceit, because, beaten with frequent lash,\nthe horn-footed horses lay low the ranks that stand against them\nand add the blow of their burning wheels,\nwhich the roused hoof turns with varied bounds.\nAnd now, hastening his march, he had brought his four-horse chariots\nto the curved shores of the Red Sea for chilling war,\nwhen the Jewish band, at once turning its eyes,\nlooks back at the immense ranks and, over all the plains,\niron-clad men gleaming, and, hemmed in by an equal weight\nof twofold fear, as it sees the sea and the enemy\nopposed, it uses harsh words against the prophet\nand says: “What great confidence was it, leader,\nin unaccustomed strength, to destroy your kindred people,\nto make them follow you, and to set the Red ocean\nbefore them as captives? Why, in vain, take from hated Egypt\nthose who bore burdens, sad indeed, but safe?","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.420 (CSEL 23:71lines 420–445–72; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-420)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.446":{"o":"nonne fuit satius tristes Pharaonis aerumnas\nfunestasque pati leges? non seruitus illa\nlibertate fuit melior, quae subdita fraudi\npraeponit tolerata prius et dulcia ducit,\ninuisitata sibi quotiens peiora sequuntur?\ndiximus hoc dudum, cum nos ad uota uocares\ninmenso reddenda deo: stat tutius illic\nuiuere consuetos seruitutemque molesti\nsustentare iugi. quam nunc decumbere leto\nsqualentes inter campos terramque relictam.\ndum trepido in casu pelago terremur et hoste.\"\nat uates nulla rerum formidine uictus\net potius uentura uidens haec terrarum ore:\n\"Soluite mordaces curas animosque serenos\ninduite, o socii, rectoque aduertite uisu.\nquanta salus uobis celsis referatur ab astris,\nsublimi tribuente deo. quos agmine denso\ncernitis instantes, post hanc inuisere lucem\nhaud licitum est uobis, quos mortis tempus adurget.\nnamque deus celsa bellator dextera pugnat\nsubiectosque regit. tacita dum stringitis ora.\nhaec ubi disseruit prouectum dicta secuntur.","t":"Was it not better to suffer Pharaoh’s sad hardships\nand deadly laws? Was not that slavery\nbetter than freedom, which, exposed to deceit,\nprefers what it endured before and counts it sweet\nwhenever worse things, never seen, follow?\nWe said this long ago, when you called us to vows\nto be paid to the immeasurable God: it is safer there\nfor those used to it to live and bear the slavery\nof a troublesome yoke than now to lie down in death\namid barren plains and a land left behind,\nwhile in trembling plight we are terrified by sea and enemy.”\nBut the prophet, overcome by no fear of anything,\nand rather seeing what is to come, speaks these words:\n“Loose your biting cares and put on serene minds,\nO companions, and turn your eyes straight ahead\nto see how great a salvation is brought you from the lofty stars,\ngiven by God on high. Those whom you see\npressing on in a dense column you will not be permitted\nto see after this day, for the time of death presses on them.\nFor God the warrior fights with his lofty right hand\nand rules those subject to him, while you keep your mouths silent.”\nWhen he had said this, deeds followed the words.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.446 (CSEL 23:72lines 446–467; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-446)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.46":{"o":"quos inter motus Leuites coniuge ducta\nprogenerat pulchro candentem corpore natum\nconspicuisque genis, magnaque extinguere uitat\nfuturum cum forma uirum, ne forte necetur,\noccultumque fouet iam trinis mensibus actis.\nsed metuens poenam, ne fraus admissa pateret,\nexpositum mittit tristis, quo rauca fluenta\nin pronum deferre queunt, cum remige carent.\nhunc germana procul uisu custodit acuto,\nquantum acie possunt oculi seruare sequentes,\nut casum expositi possit narrare parenti.\nsed senior, plausibiles dum captat laeta incedens,\npedisequis comitata suis se filia regis\nflumine tinguebat placido corpusque lauabat.\nadspicit haec modicam tumida super aequora lintrem\ncupitamque iubet praedam deferre ministras.\nillae alacres, ut laeta subest pubentibus aetas,\ninpositum cymbae referunt coramque locantes\nmaterno efficiunt sensu gaudere puellam.\nquae cupiens seruare sibi tam dulcia formae\ngaudia et eximiae praestantem frontis honorem\nHebraea de plebe palam, quae conforet altrix,\nimperat acciri, puerique haec cura famem\ninditur. illa uocat nulla iam fraude parentem\nsollicitam, cui nata ducis sua pignora laetae\nredderet, adposito nutricis nomine matri.","t":"Amid these troubles a Levite, having taken a wife,\nbegets a son shining with a beautiful body\nand conspicuous cheeks, and he shrinks from destroying\none who would be a great man with such beauty; lest he be killed,\nhe keeps him hidden until three months had passed.\nBut fearing punishment, lest the deceit be discovered,\nhe sadly sends him out exposed where the roaring streams\ncan carry him downstream, though they lack an oarsman.\nHis sister keeps watch on him from afar with sharp sight,\nas far as following eyes can keep him in view,\nso that she might tell the parent the fate of the exposed child.\nBut the king’s daughter, walking gladly,\naccompanied by her attendants, was bathing\nin the calm river and washing her body.\nShe sees a small skiff on the swelling waters\nand orders her maids to bring her the desired prize.\nThey eagerly, as befits the glad age of youth,\nbring back what was placed in the boat and, setting it before her,\nmake the girl rejoice with a mother’s feeling.\nShe, wishing to keep for herself such sweet joys of beauty\nand the outstanding honour of a noble brow,\norders that a woman of the Hebrew people be summoned openly\nto be his nurse, and the care of the boy’s hunger\nis given to her. The sister calls, now with no deceit, the anxious\nmother, to whom the leader’s daughter might give back her own child,\nthe name of nurse put upon the mother.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.46 (CSEL 23:58lines 46–71–59; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-46)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.468":{"o":"ante uolans nam castra uirum sese angelus aufert\npone locans, fuluaque dehinc posterga columna\nsistitur et medio discernit limite ualla\ncastrorumque situm, noctemque infundit opacam\ncandenti de sede deus bellumque frementes\npax inopina fouet motusque eliminat omnes.\no nimium felix. celsis cui misit ab astris\nmunimenta deus, candens cui militat aether\net coniuratae ueniunt ad proelia noctes!\nhinc procerem mandata dei depromere uirgam\nprotenta iussere manu Rubrumque tanto\ndespectare fretum. quod postquam rite peractum est,\nauster uentus adest. totis qui flatibus usus\nper tacitam noctem feruentes ebibit undas\nsiccauitque fretum, medius ut trames apertus\npanderet inlaesum patefacto in aequore cursum,\ncum bibulas refugus nudasset pontus harenas.\nergo ubi festinum pelagus discesserat, illos\ncuruata in montis faciem circumstetit unda\naccepitque sinu patulo misitque per altum.\nquod licitum credens Pharao, dum comminus instat,\ningreditur calcatque salum; sed tarda repente\nplaustra gemunt totoque in terram pectore proni\ncornipedes genibus nequiquam pondera trudunt.\nquae penitus uincto nequibant axe moueri.","t":"For the angel who flew before the camp of the men moves\nand places himself behind, and then the tawny column\nstands at their back and with a boundary between divides\nthe ramparts and the sites of the two camps; and God pours dark night\nfrom his shining seat, and unexpected peace soothes\nthose raging for war and removes all movement.\nO too happy, to whom God sent defences\nfrom the lofty stars, for whom the shining sky fights,\nand the nights come sworn together to battle!\nThen the commands of God bade the chief bring out his rod\nwith outstretched hand and look down\non the Red Sea. When this was duly done,\nthe south wind comes, which, using all its blasts,\ndrank up the seething waves through the silent night\nand dried the sea, so that a path opened in the middle\nmight lay out an unharmed course on the parted sea,\nwhen the retreating sea had bared the thirsty sands.\nSo when the hurrying sea had withdrawn, the wave,\ncurved into the face of a mountain, stood round them\nand received them in its wide bosom and sent them through the deep.\nPharaoh, believing the way open to him, while he presses close,\nenters and treads the sea; but suddenly the wagons\ngroan and slow down, and the horses, prone to the ground with all their breast,\npush the weights with their knees in vain,\nwhich could not be moved at all, their axles bound fast.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.468 (CSEL 23:73lines 468–492; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-468)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.493":{"o":"illicet exsangues inmensaque compede uincti\nfestinam temptare fugam rursumque reuerti\nnitentes uano stimulant terrore iugales.\nhis aliud maius miseris multoque tremendum\ningeritur magis et sensus adfligit inertes.\nnamque fretum dubios solitum conlidere fluctus\ndiscretas coniunxit aquas undasque tumentes\nmiscuit et totam fundo demersit Aegyptum.\nat Iudaea cohors fluitantia corpora cernens\nhostili de parte uirum currusque natantes\narmaque et obliquum quidquid torquetur in hostem,\nsuspexit timuitque deum sensuque fideli\ncredidit imperio domini uatemque sacrauit,\ncantica dum psallit Moysetis dulcia uerbis:\n\"Cantemus domino deoque nostro,\ncui gloria cum honore pollens,\nsese magnificis decorat actis.\ndum currus celeres Aegyptiorum\niunctis equitibus grauique turba\nRubri marmoris enecat fluentis.\nadiutor ualidus meae salutis\nplebem de medio tulit profundo,\ncustos et genitor salusque uera!\nhic est, hic dominus meus et altor!\nipsum conspicua sacrabo laude.","t":"At once, bloodless and bound by an immense fetter,\nstriving to attempt hasty flight and to turn back again,\nthey goad their yoked teams with vain terror.\nUpon them, wretched, another, greater and far more fearful thing\nis heaped and strikes their sluggish senses.\nFor the sea, accustomed to dash its restless waves,\njoined its parted waters and mingled the swelling waves\nand sank all Egypt to the bottom.\nBut the Jewish band, seeing floating bodies\nof men from the enemy’s side, and chariots swimming,\nand weapons and whatever is hurled slantwise at an enemy,\nlooked up and feared God, and with faithful mind\nbelieved the Lord’s command and revered the prophet,\nwhile it sings sweet songs in the words of Moses:\n“Let us sing to the Lord our God,\nto whom belongs glory mighty in honour;\nhe adorns himself with magnificent deeds,\nwhile the swift chariots of the Egyptians,\nwith their horsemen joined and the heavy crowd,\nhe kills in the streams of the Red Sea.\nStrong helper of my salvation,\nhe took the people from the midst of the deep,\nguardian and father and true salvation!\nThis is he, this my Lord and nourisher!\nHim I will hallow with conspicuous praise,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.493 (CSEL 23:73lines 493–517–74; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-493)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.518":{"o":"qui est progenitor mei parentis.\nipsum uocibus arduis fatebor,\nqui bellum tulit obruitque fortes,\ndignus nomine quo deus uocatur.\nsaxis adsimiles grauique plumbo\nuastis fluctibus abdidit cohortes,\nquas rex Niliacus in arma cogens\npraedae participes minax canebat:\nnostris dum iugulis recludit enses\net strictum rotat excutitque ferrum,\ndicens: \"Corripiam eos fugaces,\npraedam partiar obruamque uictos\net cum gloria nobilis duelli\nquaesitam meritis tenebo palmam.*\nhaec dum commemorat sibique fidit,\ncunctis perniciem suis parauit.\nnullus est similis tibi. creator,\nfactis maxime, principumque princeps\ningens subsidium tuis dedisti,\ngentes quod metuunt Philistinorum.\nEdones etiam Moabitaeque.\nquorum perniciem tremunt Chananni,\ndonec hic populus tibi redemptus\nmontem conspicuum deoque sanctum\nscandat perpetuis heres tropaeis.\"","t":"who is the God of my father.\nHim I will confess with lofty voices,\nwho bore war and overwhelmed the strong,\nworthy of the name by which God is called.\nLike stones and heavy lead\nhe hid in vast waves the cohorts\nwhich the king of the Nile, gathering them to arms,\nthreatening, hailed as sharers of the spoil,\nwhile he bares swords for our throats\nand whirls and brandishes drawn iron,\nsaying: ‘I will seize them as they flee,\nI will divide the spoil and overwhelm the conquered,\nand with the glory of a noble war\nI will hold the palm sought by merit.’\nWhile he recounts this and trusts himself,\nhe prepared destruction for all his own.\nNone is like you, Creator,\ngreatest in deeds, and prince of princes;\nyou have given great help to your own,\nwhich the nations of the Philistines fear,\nthe Edomites too and the Moabites;\nat their ruin the Canaanites tremble,\nuntil this people, redeemed by you,\nclimbs the conspicuous mountain holy to God,\nheir with everlasting trophies.”","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.518 (CSEL 23:74lines 518–542–75; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-518)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.543":{"o":"Haec paribus iterata modis plaudente corona\ncantarunt matres, uatis dictante sorore,\ntympana pulsantes digitis, dum consona dicunt.\nilicet intrepidi postquam Pharaonis iniqui\nsubuersam uidere manum. per deuia tendunt,\nquae Surum sunt dicta prius, siccumque per aestum\narentes triuere dies; quos lumine trino\nferuidiore coma torrebat lampada solis.\ndefessi Myrram ueniunt tristique sapore\nundantes cernunt latices, quos pectore fesso\nlibantes longe iaciunt; quia praegrauis unda\nobsessas fauces sensu torquebat amaro.\nquod uitium propter fontem cognomine signant\net fremitu denso uatem liquentia poscunt\nflumina, quae calidos possint mollire uapores.\nille deum poscit; nam qua licentia fluctus\ngigneret, astrigera dominus nisi mitteret aula?\nconfestimque capit quo sedat tristia lignum\npocula, et infecto perfundit melle fluores.\nillic iusta deus, librato examine lancis.\niura dedit, temptans procerem, dum talia dicit:\n\"Si mea quaeque memor sincero in pectore dicta\nsumpseris, ut facias, quae sint accommoda uitae,\ncorde gerens mandata dei, nil triste per aeuum\nperpetiere tuum, nec te iactura grauabit\ndamnorum morbique trucis; distabis ab omni\nclade mali, quaecumque feram uastauit Aegyptum.","t":"These words, repeated in like measures by an applauding circle,\nthe mothers sang, the prophet’s sister leading,\nbeating timbrels with their fingers as they sang together.\nAt once, after they saw the forces of unjust Pharaoh\noverthrown, they press on fearless through the wilderness\nformerly called Shur, and through the dry heat\nwore out parched days; for three days\nthe sun’s lamp scorched them with more fiery rays.\nWearied, they come to Marah and see water\nflowing with a sad taste, which, tasting with weary breast,\nthey spit far away, because the very heavy water\ntortured their parched throats with a bitter sensation.\nBecause of this fault they give the spring its name,\nand with dense murmuring demand of the prophet flowing\nstreams that could soften the hot vapours.\nHe asks God, for by what power would the water\ncome forth unless the Lord sent it from his starry hall?\nAnd at once he takes a wood by which he sweetens the sad\ndrink, and floods the streams with honey not mixed in.\nThere God gave just laws, with the scale balanced,\ntesting the chief, as he speaks thus:\n“If you mindfully take all my words into a sincere heart\nto do what is fitting for life,\nbearing in your heart the commands of God, you will suffer nothing sad\nall your life long, nor will the loss of goods\nor cruel disease weigh you down; you will be far from every\ncalamity that laid waste wild Egypt.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.543 (CSEL 23:75lines 543–569–76; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-543)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.570":{"o":"quandoquidem ego sum dominus, qui pectora curo\net sanos praestare queo.\" post Elima uentum est\nfontibus inriguam, bis sex qui forte meabant\nfrondentes inter palmas, quae uertice celso\nmotabant septem denos per nubila conos.\nac postquam ad Sinum positis sunt otia castris\ntrita uilis, quintoque dehinc decimoque uiantes\ndeproperant per opaca die, de mense secundo,\nextremam gemuere famem, dum uocibus altis\nobiurgant uexantque ducem: \"Quae tanta malorum\ncausa fuit? quaeue esse potest? quae tristior esse\npraeualeat, quam dira fames, quam spiritus ardens\narentes inter fauces mortemque praesentem,\nquae dilata grauat plus quam quae comminus instat?\natque utinam nobis letum sors una dedisset\nAegypto positis tum, cum substantia uictus\nlarga fuit cunctis, nullo mussante seorsum,\nquod desint alimenta sibi? nunc degimus istic,\nest ubi uita grauis, etiam si tristia non sint.\nergo ualet quisquam squalentes inter harenas\ninuisum tolerare diem. solemque calentem\nsiccus ferre potest, nulla quem temperat umbra?","t":"since I am the Lord, who heal hearts\nand can make you sound.” After this they came to Elim,\nwatered with springs, twelve, which flowed by chance\namid leafy palms, which with lofty tops\nwaved seventy crowns through the clouds.\nAnd after they had spent their leisure with the camp set at Sin,\nthen, travelling on the fifteenth day of the second month,\nthey hasten through shadowy places;\nthey groaned with extreme hunger, while with loud voices\nthey rebuke and harass the leader: “What was the great\ncause of these evils? Or what can it be? What can be\nsadder than dire hunger, than burning breath\nin parched throats, and death at hand,\nwhich, delayed, weighs more heavily than death that comes at once?\nWould that one lot had given us death\nwhen we were in Egypt, when the supply of food\nwas abundant for all and no one muttered apart\nthat he lacked nourishment! Now we live here,\nwhere life is heavy, even if there are no griefs.\nCan anyone, then, endure the hated day among barren sands,\nand bear, parched, the hot sun that no shade tempers?","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.570 (CSEL 23:76lines 570–591–77; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-570)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.592":{"o":"quin potius, si nostra moneat discrimina sensus,\ndux grandaeue, tuos. Nilum Pharumque rogamus\nredde tuis, cunctosque dehinc iterare labores\nposcentes permitte uiros, quia tristius esse\naccisis nil posse cibis sententia nostra est,\net saturos seruire iuuat. post talia dicta\nprofatur uates, socio sermonis Arone:\n\"Quid tantum indomito uoces iactare tumultu\net proceres uexare iuuat? quid poscere uictum,\nquem solus praestare potest, qui sidera fecit?\nsed tamen occidua cernetis lampade solis\nesse deum, uobis cuius pro munere panis\nmittitur e caelo; qui uos, Mareotide fusca\ninplicitos dudum, laetos nunc mittit ad agros.\nquare agite et primo redeuntis lumine solis\ninsuetas libate dapes mannamque caelestem.\niurgia nam populi, nostris non congrua factis,\nin dominum sunt missa magis, qui pascere sueuit,\nquidquid alit, longoque educit saecula pastu.\"\nhaec ubi disseruit, dominus de nube superna\nemicuit meliore die uictumque caelestem\ndespondit cunctis, quem messis nescia fraudis\nprogenerat nulloque extinguit semina fuco.","t":"Rather, if your senses warn you of our dangers,\naged leader, we ask you, give back to your own people\nthe Nile and Egypt, and then permit the men who ask it\nto take up all their labours again, because our judgment is that\nnothing can be sadder than food cut off,\nand it is pleasant to serve when well fed.” After such words\nthe prophet speaks, with Aaron as partner in his speech:\n“Why does it please you to hurl such words in untamed tumult\nand harass the chiefs? Why ask for food,\nwhich he alone can provide who made the stars?\nYet at the setting lamp of the sun you shall see\nthat there is a God, by whose gift bread\nis sent you from heaven; who, though you were long entangled\nin dark Mareotis, now sends you gladly to the fields.\nSo come, and at the first light of the returning sun\ntaste unaccustomed food, the heavenly manna.\nFor the people’s quarrels, which do not fit our deeds,\nwere rather sent against the Lord, who is used to feeding\nwhatever he nourishes and leads the ages on with long pasture.”\nWhen he had said this, the Lord shone out from the cloud above\nin a brighter day and promised heavenly food\nto all, which a harvest that knows no deceit\nbrings forth, and whose seeds no blight destroys.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.592 (CSEL 23:77lines 592–614–78; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-592)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.615":{"o":"inde ubi iam croceo radiauit uesper ab axe,\ncrebra niuis ritu caelo delapsa coturnix,\ncongerie cumulata graui, camposque iacentes\ncastrorumque situm cunctis mirantibus inplet.\nquin etiam primo cum se lux reddidit ortu,\nniuosos dat manna cibos, quae farre minuto,\nsunt coriandra uelut, totis defluxit ab astris.\nquam iussi carpsere manu ratione legendi\ncerta uiri. ne quis forsan plus condere mallet,\nquam iusti mensura cibi est. quae sufficit uno\nquoque die, nec uana Sella sollertia quemquam\nplus iusto posuisse domi; nam sole calente\nputria multimodo uitiantur uerme polenta.\nhoc solum nequeunt geminae disperdere luces,\nquae festo mandenda die parasceue prompsit,\nquem sanctum iubet esse deus nullumque laborem\nsustentare homines, quotiens lux illa recurrit,\nsabbata quae memorant lentae concessa quieti.\nquin etiam cunctis penitus haec cognita res est,\nseptima quaque die nullum descendere uictum,\ncaelestis quem messis habet; quia cura sagaci\nprogressi per rura uiri camposque iacentes.\nnil praeter undantes uentorum flatibus herbas\nintuiti, sinibus uacuis referuntur ad aedes.","t":"Then, when evening shone from the saffron sky,\nquail, falling from heaven thick as snow,\nheaped in a heavy mass, fills the open plains\nand the site of the camp, to the wonder of all.\nMoreover, when light returned at its first rising,\nthe manna gives snowy food, which, with fine grain\nlike coriander, flowed down from all the stars.\nAt the command, the men gathered it by hand by a fixed\nrule of gathering, lest anyone should perhaps wish to store\nmore than the measure of just food, which suffices\nfor each day; nor did vain cleverness help anyone\nwho laid up more than was right at home; for when the sun grew hot\nthe meal rotted, spoiled by manifold worms.\nOnly this the two days’ light cannot spoil,\nwhich the Preparation brought out to be eaten on the festal day,\nwhich God commands to be holy, and that men bear\nno labour whenever that day returns,\nwhich they call the sabbath, granted to slow rest.\nMoreover this was thoroughly known to all,\nthat on every seventh day no food comes down\nfrom the heavenly harvest; for when, with shrewd care,\nmen went out through the countryside and the open plains,\nseeing nothing but grass waving in the blasts of the winds,\nthey are carried back to their homes with empty laps.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.615 (CSEL 23:78lines 615–638–79; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-615)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.639":{"o":"ac ne forte dei tantum monumenta uiderent,\nad quos missa fuit melliti muneris esca,\nclauditur auratae quiddam munimine thecae,\nquod uideat generanda manus olimque futura\nac uenerata deum uictum miretur auorum.\npost haec signa mouent longumque educitur agmen\nad uitam, quae sole calens atque indiga lymphae\nmordaces populum fecit depromere uoces\nin procerem, dum poscit aquam; nec murmure solo,\nsed paene est grassata manu; nam saxa sacerdos\nin semet iaculanda timens emittit ad altum\nuerba deum siccisque implorat syrtibus amnes.\nilicet instinctus domini sententia magni\nmaiores pariter natu praecedere mandat;\ntum uirgam capit adsuetam, qua sistere fluctus\nnouerat et medio pontum diducere uallo;\nChorebumque petit montem, qui plurimus extat\nsacratumque caput uicina ad nubila tollit.\nillic dura silex conclusas saepserat undas, —\nquam super adstabat dominus fontesque ciebat\nuirtutum ratione pari, qua flumina toto\ndistinxit mundo inmensa et marmora fudit.\nhanc iussus pulsare ferit rupesque repente\nrumpitur et loquente undantibus euomit amnes.","t":"And lest only those to whom the food of the honeyed gift was sent\nshould see the memorials of God,\nsome of it is shut in the protection of a gilded case,\nfor the band yet to be born and to come one day to see,\nand, revering God, to marvel at the food of their forefathers.\nAfter this they move the standards and the long column is led out\nto a place which, burning with sun and lacking water,\nmade the people bring out biting words\nagainst the chief as they demand water; and not with murmuring alone,\nbut they almost proceeded to violence; for the priest, fearing\nstones would be hurled at him, sends words to God on high\nand implores rivers for the dry sands.\nAt once, prompted by the great Lord, his word orders\nthe elders likewise to go ahead;\nthen he takes the familiar rod, with which he had known\nhow to halt the waves and divide the sea with a rampart in the middle,\nand makes for Mount Horeb, which stands very high\nand lifts its sacred head to the nearby clouds.\nThere a hard flint had enclosed imprisoned waters,\nabove which the Lord stood and roused the springs\nby the same reckoning of his powers with which he set\nimmense rivers through the whole world and poured out the seas.\nOrdered to strike it, he strikes, and suddenly the rock\nbursts and pours forth rivers in flowing waves.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.639 (CSEL 23:79lines 639–662; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-639)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.663":{"o":"curritur ad fluctus certatim congrege turba\ninnumeraeque ruunt pecudes aestumque resoluunt\nexpletisque redit defessa in corpora uirtus.\nilicet ipse locus causae de nomine nomen\nTemptationis habet, populus quod pectoris anceps\nambigua cum mente fuit, an summus in illo\ndegeret omnipotens, et quod plebs aspera dictis\noptasset maledicta duci, quae concipit ira.\nistic belligeris Amalec instructa cateruis\nHebraeos fudit cuneos; quod dedecus arcens\nIesus lecta rapit bellantum robora secum :\nquem ferrata manu suscepta in bella uadentem\ndux uotis precibusque iuuat collemque Chorebum\nconscendit celerante gradu, quem iunctus Aronus\net Hurus uallant medium artusque per aeuum\nlaboris refugos nec standi ad munia fortes\nsubposito firmant saxo durumque sedile\nsubiciunt sternuntque duci; tum deinde fluentes\nsustentant in prona manus, ut pectoris orsis\npalmarum prex iuncta foret; nam saepe cadentes\npondere grandaeuo dubium certamen agebant.\nhas ubi subpositae firmarunt undique dextrae,\nhostiles cedunt acies campique replentur\ncaede uirum nullusque e tantis milibus extat.","t":"The crowd runs to the waters in rivalry, in a gathered throng,\nand countless cattle rush in and quench the heat,\nand strength returns to the weary bodies when filled.\nAt once the place itself takes from the cause the name\nof Temptation, because the people were doubtful in heart\nand uncertain in mind whether the highest Almighty dwelt\namong them, and because the harsh people had wished\ncurses on the leader in words that anger conceives.\nThere Amalek, arrayed with warlike bands,\nrouted the Hebrew ranks; to ward off this disgrace\nJoshua takes with him the chosen strength of the fighters.\nAs he goes with iron hand into the war undertaken,\nthe leader helps him with vows and prayers, and climbs\nMount Horeb with hastening step; Aaron, joined with him,\nand Hur flank him in the middle, and his limbs, through his age\nshrinking from toil and not strong for the duty of standing,\nthey make firm with a stone placed beneath, and lay a hard seat\nunder him and spread it for the leader; then they hold up\nhis drooping hands, so that the prayer of his palms\nmight join the words of his breast; for often, falling\nunder their aged weight, they made the contest doubtful.\nWhen right hands placed beneath them on either side had made them firm,\nthe enemy ranks give way, and the fields are filled\nwith slaughter of men, and none of so many thousands survives.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.663 (CSEL 23:80lines 663–686; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-663)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.687":{"o":"haec fuerant ut gesta deo mandante, propheta\nconscripsit docili uentura in tempora libro;\nconfestimque deo sacratum construit altar.\nconpellans per uerba locum fidelia sanctum;\n\"Spes mihi certa dei, cuius protectio semper\nsubsidium mihi sola dedit, qui robore clauso\nabsconsaque manu Sethum dispulit bellantes\nAmalechas necat ⟨et⟩ tota cum pube cohortes\nInterea generi Iothorus percipit acta\nfestinusque uenit. oculis dinoscere gaudens,\nquae fuerant memorata sibi. saeptumque labore\ninuenit inmodico. dum causas noscitat omnes\ncarentis turbae numero, magnumque precatus\nante deum mactat pecudes; tum deinde monendo\nefficit, ut lecta fierent de plebe tribuni\natque alii aliique gradus, quos ordine miles\naccipit, ut certa legiones lege regantur,\nac modicas pensent lites. quo iurgia magna\nsint soli noscenda duci. quis rite peractis\nIothorus sua tecta petit generumque reliquit.\ntertius interea sese per tempora mensis\nfestinus uariata dedit. cum sola per arua\nSinainum ad montem domini perducitur agmen.\nquem uates propere conscendit uocibus actus\nualeret monitisque dei: mox procubus audit:","t":"When these things had been done at God’s command, the prophet\nwrote them in a book to teach the times to come,\nand at once he builds an altar consecrated to God,\ncalling the holy place by faithful words:\n“My sure hope is God, whose protection alone\nhas always given me help, who with hidden strength\nand concealed hand drove off the warring Amalekites\nand kills them, their cohorts and all their youth.”\nMeanwhile Jethro learns of his son-in-law’s deeds\nand comes in haste, rejoicing to see with his own eyes\nwhat he had been told; and he finds him hedged in\nby immoderate labour, as he hears all the cases\nof a crowd past numbering; and, having prayed to the great God,\nhe sacrifices cattle before him; then by his advice\nhe brings it about that tribunes are chosen from the people\nand further ranks, which the soldiers receive in order,\nso that the legions may be ruled by sure law\nand settle small disputes, while great quarrels\nare to be judged by the leader alone. When this was duly done,\nJethro goes back to his own home and left his son-in-law.\nMeanwhile the third month had hastened by\nin its varied course, when the Lord’s column is led\nthrough lonely fields to Mount Sinai.\nThe prophet quickly climbs it, prompted by a voice\nand by God’s warnings; soon, prostrate, he hears:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.687 (CSEL 23:80lines 687–711–81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-687)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.712":{"o":"Haec. (quae) dicta tibi. cunctis narrare memento:\nuidistis. quae monstra. uiri. tolerarit Aegyptus.\ndum uestri me cura tenet et congrego cunctos\natque ueho, tamquam pinnarum tramite ductos.\nquas pandit uolucrum princeps. dum nubila sulcat.\net nunc, si uestras ueniant mea dicta per aures,\nut, quae sunt mandata, fiant et consona iustae\ncorda haereant legi, plebem uos semper habebo\nditibus insignem rebus cunctisque praeponam\ngentibus, ut toto fortes regnetis in orbe.\nhaec omnis nam terra mea est; et quidquid ubique\ngignitur, id iuri subiectum semper aeterno est.\nuos captiuosque regnum. mea ut quod dextera clarum,\net gens sancta mihi, longum quae prorogat aeuum.\"\nille memor iussi, fuerant quae dicta reuoluit\nprincipibus plebis populusque insignibus orsis\ncredidit et magno submisit corda tonanti.\nfacturum sese mandata inlustria dicens.\nhis aliud maius dominus de sedibus altis\ninstituturus agit uatemque ad munia mittit\nsueta sibi cunctosque iubet liquentibus undis\neluere infectas sordes uel ueste uel artu.\nabnoctare uiros, ut mente et corpore puris\ntertia luce deus celsis uideatur ab astris\nmonte procul positis, nullus quem comminus adstans\ntanget agetque; pecus longa in deserta minare\npraecipitur, ne poena foret coniuncta nocenti.","t":"“Remember to tell all these words spoken to you:\nyou have seen, men, what wonders Egypt suffered,\nwhile care for you holds me and I gather you all\nand carry you as if led on the track of the wings\nthat the prince of birds spreads as it ploughs the clouds.\nAnd now, if my words come through your ears,\nso that what is commanded is done and your hearts\ncling in harmony to the just law, I will always have you as a people\ndistinguished by rich possessions and will set you before all\nnations, so that you may reign in strength in the whole world.\nFor all this earth is mine, and whatever anywhere\nis born is always subject to eternal right.\nYou shall be a kingdom of priests, which my right hand makes famous,\nand a nation holy to me, which prolongs a long age.”\nHe, mindful of the command, repeated what had been said\nto the chiefs of the people, and the people believed the notable words\nand submitted their hearts to the great Thunderer,\nsaying that they would do the illustrious commands.\nThe Lord, about to establish another, greater thing\nfrom his lofty seats, sends the prophet to his accustomed duties\nand orders all to wash away in flowing water\nthe stains from their clothing or their limbs,\nand the men to spend the nights apart, so that, pure in mind and body,\nthey may see God from the lofty stars on the third day,\nset far off from the mountain, which no one standing near\nshall touch or approach; the cattle are ordered to be driven\ninto the far desert, lest punishment fall on them with the guilty.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.712 (CSEL 23:81lines 712–738–82; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-712)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.72":{"o":"adcreuit raptimque puer prorepsit ad annos,\nprimaeuo qui flore uirent, et deditus aulae\npignore pro uero natae Pharaonis habetur,\naccipit et nomen Musseos, quod foret undis\nexemptus querulis, modico fluitante faselo.\nille autem ingenii monitus cordisque secutus\ncognatam lustrare parat circum oppida gentem,\nquae duro praesente iugo se maesta coquebat.\nforte uiae medio Pharia de plebe tuetur\nclamosa cum uoce uirum multare gementem\nHebraeum quendam, sortemque exosus iniquam.\nomnia conlustrat nullumque hic adfore cernens,\nqui testis conperta loco depromere possit.\ncalce ferit fusumque ingesta condit harena.\ninde alios Iudaea uidet de gente minantes\nexpletus uiros ac, dum se sedulus offert\ninfirmamque iuuat partem pacemque reducit,\nexcipit irato missas de pectore uoces:\n\"Quid celsa ceruice tumes, ceu principis alti\nsceptra regas scriptaeque fremant, te praesule, leges?\naut fortasse paras subito me perdere leto,\nut Pharium hesterna iuuenem sub luce necasti?\"\nhaec fuerant ut dicta, ducis deportat ad aures\nfama loquax, uatemque fugat rex iuuenem ira.","t":"The boy grew and quickly reached the years\nthat flourish with the first flower and, given to the court,\nis held as a true child of Pharaoh’s daughter,\nand receives the name Moses, because he had been\ntaken from the plaintive waves, floating in a small boat.\nBut he, prompted by his nature and following his heart,\nprepares to visit his kindred people around the towns,\nwho, in sorrow, were being worn down under the present harsh yoke.\nBy chance in the middle of the road he sees a man of the Egyptian people\npunishing with loud voice a groaning man,\na certain Hebrew; and, hating the unjust lot,\nhe looks all around and, seeing no one present\nwho could later bring out as a witness what he found there,\nhe strikes him with his heel and buries him, laid low, under heaped sand.\nThen he sees men of the Jewish race threatening one another\nand, while he eagerly offers himself\nand helps the weaker side and restores peace,\nhe receives words sent from an angry breast:\n“Why do you swell with lofty neck, as though you wielded the sceptre\nof a high prince, and written laws resounded under your presidency?\nOr perhaps you are preparing to destroy me with sudden death,\nas you killed the Egyptian youth in yesterday’s light?”\nWhen this had been said, talkative rumour carries it to the leader’s ears,\nand the king in anger puts the young prophet to flight.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.72 (CSEL 23:59lines 72–95–60; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-72)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.739":{"o":"quae saxis ferro(ue) uenit, cum missile telum\ntorquet adacta manus aut cautem uerbera uibrant.\nhis actis, nullo maculatus corpora naeuo,\nprospectat collem populus, cum prima ruborem\ntertia luce dedit stellis aurora remotis.\nfulmina iamque micant, iam celsis magnus ab astris\nauditur fremitus uocum nimbosaque nubes\nlibrata se mole tenet crepituque uerendo\nterribiles sonitus iterat tuba saeptaque uallo\nin castris plebs maesta tremit montisque sacrati\ncaelesti testata dei latera ardua fumant.\net quicumque fuit electa ex plebe sacerdos,\nmonte procul degit. solis quem scandere ius est\nAroni Moysique piis. tum perpete fatu\nmansura dat iussa deus hoc ordine legis:\n\"Ille ego sum dominus. qui te discrimine priuans\nAegypti de terra tuli durumque laborem.\nseruilis quem cura dabat. desistere iussi.\nme tantum tua corda colant, neque idola pangas\nulla tibi fictumque deum subnixus adores;\nnumina nec credas, quae sunt inlustria caelo\nsidera, uel quidquam in terris mirere perinde,\nuel quod glauca tegunt fluitantis marmora ponti.\nsum dominus zelans, peccatis criminibus reddens\nin patres prolemque dehinc quae quarta creatur;","t":"that comes by stone or iron, when the hand drives\nand hurls the missile weapon or blows shake the rock.\nThese things done, the people, their bodies stained by no blemish,\nlook toward the hill, when dawn on the third day\nfirst gave its redness, the stars withdrawn.\nAnd now lightnings flash, now from the lofty stars\na great roar of voices is heard, and the stormy cloud\nholds itself poised in its mass, and with awful crash\nthe trumpet repeats terrible sounds, and, fenced by a rampart\nin the camp, the sad people tremble, and the steep sides\nof the sacred mountain smoke, bearing witness to God from heaven.\nAnd whoever was a priest from the chosen people\nstays far from the mountain, which only the pious\nAaron and Moses may climb. Then in everlasting utterance\nGod gives commands to endure, in this order of the law:\n“I am the Lord, who, freeing you from peril,\nbrought you out of the land of Egypt and ordered the hard labour\nthat servile care imposed to cease.\nLet your hearts worship me alone, and do not fashion\nany idols for yourself or, relying on a made god, worship it;\nnor believe to be divinities the stars that shine\nin heaven, nor marvel likewise at anything on earth\nor what the grey-green waters of the flowing sea cover.\nI am a jealous Lord, repaying sins and crimes\non the fathers and then on the offspring born in the fourth generation;","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.739 (CSEL 23:82lines 739–763–83; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-739)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.764":{"o":"misericors multum, maiora et grandia reddens\nquae iusti meruere uiri. qui corde sub imo\namplexi mea iussa tenent et mente sequuntur.\ntu nomen uenerare dei. tu sabbata festa\ncum natis seruisque cole totumque laborem\npone libens, quotiens mundo lux illa recursat.\nbis ternis dominus fecit quaecumque diebus\nin terris caeloque uegent pontoque tumenti:\nseptima perfecto uirtutum fine quieuit;\nhinc festus uiget ille dies, hinc semper acerbus,\nsemper honoratus domino indulgente sacratur.\nhonorem da, nate, tuis genitoribus, ut sis\nperpetuae in terris uitae, quam prorogat ingens\ningenti de sede deus. ne dilige moechas.\nneue hominem perime, nec sacramenta sinistre\nperiurans perhibe; furtum ne feceris ullum,\nneue malus testis iurgantem fraude tuere.\nconiuge ab alterius animum uultumque coherce\net quidquid non esse tuum mens admonet, horre.\naggere de terrae congesta altaria surgant,\nhic ubi deuotas fas sit mactare bidentes.\nquae si forte sedet saxorum adtollere mole,\nferrum linque procul, quoniam sordentia fiunt\nartifici leuigata manu; quae scandere gressu\nnon sineris prompto, ne forte obscena renudes.","t":"very merciful, repaying greater and great rewards\nthat just men have deserved, who in the depth of their heart\nembrace my commands, keep them and follow them in mind.\nRevere the name of God. Keep the festal sabbaths\nwith your sons and servants, and gladly lay aside\nall labour whenever that day returns to the world.\nIn twice three days the Lord made whatever\nflourishes on land and in heaven and in the swelling sea;\non the seventh, the end of his mighty works complete, he rested;\nhence that festal day flourishes, hence it is ever\nhallowed, ever honoured by the Lord’s indulgence.\nGive honour, son, to your parents, so that you may\nhave lasting life on earth, which mighty God prolongs\nfrom his mighty seat. Do not love adulteresses,\nnor kill a man, nor bear witness to oaths\nperjuring yourself wickedly; commit no theft at all,\nnor as an evil witness defend a litigant by fraud.\nKeep your mind and your eyes from another’s wife,\nand shudder at whatever your mind warns is not yours.\nLet altars rise built from a heap of earth,\nwhere it is right to sacrifice devoted sheep.\nBut if perhaps you choose to raise them with a mass of stones,\nleave iron far away, since things smoothed by a craftsman’s hand\nbecome defiled; and you shall not climb them\nwith ready step, lest perhaps you uncover your nakedness.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.764 (CSEL 23:83lines 764–788–84; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-764)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.789":{"o":"seruus erit quisquis cognata in gente creatus,\nbis ternis seruile iugum patiatur in annis;\npost abeat liber, secum sua praemia portans,\nconiuge missa simul, si nondum feta uidetur.\nac si iam natis paterno et nomine gaudet.\nuxorem et prolem domino dimittere debet.\nipse sui compos nodoque exutus erili.\nquod si non dubie mauult persistere uerna,\nante fores domino sanctas sistente locetur\nuulnera passurus, tenuis quae subula pungit,\naure tenus molli, numquam cameris in aeuum.\nuendere progenitam discreta in gente parenti\nnon licitum sociaque manet cum plebe potestas;\nquam tamen ut seruam nequaquam emittere ius est.\nquae si displiceat domino, cui uendita cessit,\nreddentur nummi, fuerat taxatio quorum.\nut reuocare queat paterna ad limina sese.\nquae si forte datur nato, sic conuenit ipsum\nut natam tractare suam. qui sumere iuste\nsi mauult, permissa sibi, quis membra teguntur,\nindumenta palam faciet, nec deinde negabit,\nsi coitu sit nota sibi; uel, si rata non sunt\nhaec conmissa uiro, poterit laxare uadentem,\nnec pretium reuocare datum. qui uulnere duro\naequora(uatem sternitque uirum, decumbat eodem,\nquo perimet, leto; at si discrimina casu\nsunt inlata magis, domino tradente nocentem\nictibus alterius, locus est qui condere possit\ndonandum uenia, domino indulgente salutem.","t":"Whoever is a slave born of the kindred nation,\nlet him bear the servile yoke for twice three years;\nthen let him go free, carrying his rewards with him,\nhis wife sent away with him if she is not yet seen to be pregnant.\nBut if he already rejoices in children and the name of father,\nhe must leave his wife and offspring to his master,\nhimself his own man and released from his master’s bond.\nBut if he decidedly prefers to remain a slave,\nlet him be placed before the holy doors, his master setting him there,\nto suffer the wound that a thin awl pierces\nthrough the soft ear, never free for all time.\nIt is not lawful for a parent to sell a daughter to a foreign nation;\nthe power to sell remains with the allied people;\nyet it is in no way right to send her away as a slave.\nIf she displeases the master to whom she passed when sold,\nthe coins at which she was valued shall be returned,\nso that he may send her back to her father’s threshold.\nBut if perhaps she is given to his son, it is fitting that he\ntreat her as his own daughter. And if the son prefers to take another lawfully,\nhe shall openly provide the garments allowed her, with which her limbs are covered,\nand shall not then deny her what is hers\nif she is known to him by intercourse; or, if these things entrusted\nto the man are not kept, he may release her to go\nand not reclaim the price given. He who with a hard wound\nstrikes down a man, let him lie in the same death\nwith which he kills; but if the harm came rather by chance,\nthe Lord delivering the guilty man to another’s blows,\nthere is a place that can shelter him,\nto be granted pardon, the Lord indulgently granting safety.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.789 (CSEL 23:84lines 789–817–85; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-789)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.818":{"o":"at uero qui membra dolo uiuentia ferro\ndisicit et studio gratatur sanguine fuso,\ncrimen habet mortis, nequiquam tecta requirens\nsublimi sacrata deo; nam demitur inde\nseiunctusque procul rigido truncabitur ense.\net qui conpellat tumide pulsatue parentes.\nin crimen noxale ruit. quod morte piatur.\nnec minus ad poenam petitur, qui forte doloso\nperfidus ingenio paterna in plebe creatum.\ncleptat et acceptis gaudet transcribere nummis.\nquod si litigium fuerit per uerba paratum\npulsatusque aliquis pugno saxoque recusso\nreciperet solitas uires, nil fraudis haerebit:\nsoluendum tamen est. sumpsit quod cura medentis.\nancillam seruumque suum qui uerbere uirgae\nconfestim perimit, poenam non uitat haerentem.\nquod si post aliam morietur uernula lucem,\nnil noxale subest, pretium quia perdidit eius.\nat si forte uiris feruebit rixa duobus,\nconmoto dum felle calent. nuptamque tumentem\ngermine concepto alius pulsarit eorum,\nin plagam porrecta manu, partumque futurum\nfecerit ante diem materno ex pectore trudi,\nrestituet pretio partum, taxante marito,\nsi nondum perfecta fuit expressaque forma.","t":"But he who by guile severs living limbs with iron\nand rejoices zealously in the blood he has shed\nhas a capital charge and seeks in vain the shelter\nholy to God on high; for he is taken from there\nand, led far off, will be cut down with the stiff sword.\nAnd he who insolently abuses or strikes his parents\nrushes into a guilty crime that is atoned by death.\nNo less is he sought for punishment who, with deceitful\nand faithless mind, steals one born of his fathers’ people\nand rejoices to transfer him for coins received.\nBut if a quarrel has arisen in words\nand someone struck with a fist or a stone thrown\nrecovers his usual strength, no guilt will cling to the striker;\nyet he must pay what the physician’s care has cost.\nHe who at once kills his maidservant or his servant\nwith the blow of a rod does not escape the penalty that clings to him.\nBut if the slave dies after another day,\nthere is no guilt, because he has lost his price.\nBut if perhaps a quarrel boils up between two men,\nwhile they grow hot with stirred gall, and one of them\nstrikes a wife swelling with conceived offspring,\nhis hand stretched out to strike, and causes the child to come\nto be thrust from the mother’s womb before its day,\nhe shall make good the child with a price, as the husband assesses it,\nif its form was not yet complete and shaped.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.818 (CSEL 23:85lines 818–842–86; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-818)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.843":{"o":"si uero explicitis decessit uultibus infans,\nmorte cadet merita. lumen pro lumine rapto\nreddet quisque nocens, dentem pro dente resignans,\nproque manu dabit ille manum pedemque uicissim,\ndetruncat quicumque pedem; conbustaque flammis\nexpiat ignis edax; dabitur pro uulnere uulnus;\nliuida liuenti sedantur corpore membra.\nquod si quis rapto famulum de lumine priuat\nancillamue suam, missos patiatur abire,\nlibertas quocumque uocat: uel fragmina dentis\nsi fuerint decussa manu, solacia sumat\ndebilitas, ut dona suo pro uulnere penset.\nat si praeualida gaudens ceruice his,\nexpers ruris adhuc curuique inmunis aratri,\ncornu ferit quemquam, saxorum mole prematur,\nobrutus et. nullo carpendus dente uirorum,\nmembra dabit terrae liquidos soluenda per artus.\ninsonti nulla domino discrimina linquens.\nquod si consuetum lunata fronte ferire\nuicinos. dudum monitus non arca excors.\ndecumbat pro caede bouis taurusque necetur.\nsi uero extincti pretium sententia mitis\nexigit. et soluat, quidquid taxatio poscit.","t":"But if the infant has died with its features formed,\nhe shall fall by a deserved death. Eye for eye taken\neach guilty man shall give back, giving up tooth for tooth,\nand for hand he shall give hand, and foot in turn,\nwhoever cuts off a foot; burning by flames\ndevouring fire expiates; wound shall be given for wound;\nbruised limbs are atoned by a bruised body.\nBut if anyone robs his servant or his maidservant\nof an eye, let him let them go free\nwherever freedom calls; or if fragments of a tooth\nare struck out by his hand, let the injured one receive consolation,\nso that gifts may make up for the wound.\nBut if a bull, rejoicing in its very strong neck,\nstill unused to the field and free from the curved plough,\nstrikes anyone with its horn, let it be crushed with a mass of stones,\nand, buried, not to be eaten by any tooth of men,\nit shall give its limbs to the earth, to be dissolved in its liquid joints,\nleaving no danger to its innocent owner.\nBut if, used to strike its neighbours with crescent brow,\nits owner, long warned, has heedlessly not shut it in,\nlet him die for the slaying by the ox, and let the bull be killed.\nBut if a milder sentence demands the price of the dead,\nlet him pay whatever the assessment requires.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.843 (CSEL 23:86lines 843–865; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-843)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.866":{"o":"hoc etiam pro caede sui fas poscere nati\nuel natae quemcumque uirum. si seruulus ictu\ndecubuit tauri, ter denos pendere nummos\ncura tenet dominum saeuo pereunte iuuenco.\nat si quis multa puteum demittere fossa\negesto uult usque solo, mox tegmine claudat,\nne, si forte pecus fuerit per prona uolutum,\ndamna luat, domino pretium poscente, ruentum\nempturus pecudum tenui solamine carnes.\nquod si forte bouem bos cornu occiderit unco,\nuendatur; pretium fiat commune duorum\ndiuiduaque legant mactati uiscera tauri.\nquod si iam uitium fuerat testatius eius,\npro pecude pecudem dominus redhibebit amissa\ninnocuus, strati praesumens membra iuuenci.\nqui uitulum cleptat, cogatur reddere quinque;\nbis binas soluat quicumque auerterit agnam.\nnocturnum furem licitum prosternere ferro.\ndum penetrat postes obsaeptaque limina rumpit.\nsi uero exorto fuerit flumine sole prehensus.\ndupliciter redhibere nocens sublata iubetur.\nquae si non fuerint in censu et uiribus eius,\nuendetur, manuum pensurus furta labore.","t":"Any man may also demand this for the killing of his son\nor daughter. If a slave has fallen by the blow\nof a bull, it is the master’s duty to pay thirty coins,\nand the savage bullock is killed.\nBut if anyone wishes to sink a well by deep digging,\nremoving the soil to the bottom, let him close it soon with a cover,\nlest, if perhaps a beast has rolled down the slope,\nhe pay the damages, the owner demanding the price of those that fell,\nand buy the carcasses of the cattle as slight consolation.\nBut if perhaps an ox kills an ox with its hooked horn,\nlet it be sold; let the price be shared by the two,\nand let them take the divided flesh of the slain bull.\nBut if its fault had been clearly attested before,\nthe owner shall give back beast for beast for the one lost,\nthe innocent man taking the limbs of the slain bullock.\nWhoever steals a calf shall be compelled to return five;\nwhoever carries off a lamb shall pay twice two.\nIt is lawful to lay low a night thief with iron\nwhile he breaks through the doorposts and the barred thresholds.\nBut if he is caught after the sun has risen,\nthe guilty man is ordered to return twofold what was taken.\nAnd if this is beyond his property and means,\nhe shall be sold, to pay for his thefts by the labour of his hands.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.866 (CSEL 23:87lines 866–888; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-866)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.889":{"o":"cuius forte pecus segetem uitemue uirentem\nnudatis aut patulo carptim arca ore,\niugera fecundi mensuret protinus agri\nprouentu spatioque pari: sic damna resoluet,\nquae fuerint inlata prius. haec formula nectit\nhos etiam, qui tota simul noualia uerrunt\npampineasque metunt consumpto palmite uites.\nut quae magnifica proprios habuere per agros.\namittant ratione pari. nam stridulus ignis.\nfomite de modico solitus conprendere uepres.\narentem stipulam et truncos cortice nudos.\nsi segetem alterius uitemue absumpserit aestu.\ncrimen ad auctoris merita per damna recurrit.\nut reddat quidquid noxalis flamma peredit.\ndepositum redhibere decet: quod perfida furum\nsi fuerit populata manus, auctore reperto\nduplex summa datur: si uero est abditus ille.\nauersas qui dempsit opes. hostia sola\nexortem culpae faciet, quia fraude carebit.\nat si mendoso fallax nudatur in astu.\ndepositi reddat geminum sub iudice pondus.\nhaec etiam in pecudum causis mensura tenenda est:\npropterea ut, furto quae sunt direpta sinistro.\nrestituat, cuius fuerit custodia segnis.","t":"If anyone’s beast has stripped another’s crop or green vine,\ncropping it bit by bit with wide mouth,\nlet him at once measure out acres of fertile field\nof equal yield and extent; so he will repay the damage\nthat was done before. This rule binds\nthose too who sweep all the fallow lands together\nand reap the leafy vines, consuming the shoots,\nso that they lose, by the same reckoning, what they had in plenty\nin their own fields. For the crackling fire,\nused to catching thorns from a little kindling,\ndry stubble and trunks stripped of bark,\nif it has consumed another’s crop or vine with its heat,\nthe guilt returns on its author through the damages he owes,\nso that he repays whatever the guilty flame devoured.\nIt is right to return a deposit: if the faithless hand of thieves\nhas plundered it, when the thief is found\na double sum is paid; but if he who took the stolen wealth\nremains hidden, a sacrifice alone\nwill make the keeper free of guilt, because he is free of fraud.\nBut if, deceitful, he is exposed in lying cunning,\nlet him return twice the weight of the deposit before a judge.\nThis measure too must be kept in cases of cattle:\nthat he whose guarding was slack\nrestores what was carried off by wicked theft.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.889 (CSEL 23:87lines 889–912–88; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-889)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.913":{"o":"at si molle pecus rabies uesana luporum\nlancinat, ostensa mitescunt iurgia carne.\nquod si quis geminos ducenda ad plaustra iuuencos\ncommodat, enormi non dicat pondere functos\nidem. si fuerit praesens, stimulator euntum.\nhoc etiam in reliquis, quos pressant pondera iussa.\nsed si festinos accepta animalia perdit.\nquisquis agit. ius est, ut damnum sentiat omne.\nquae si perdiderit posita mercede locatus,\nilla operae in pretio promptim taxanda locabit.\nuirginis haut sponsae si quis sibi sumpserit usum,\nuxorem cum dote sibi sociabit eandem.\nquod si coniugio mens est non consona raptae,\nmunera det, thalamis quae sunt accommoda, patri.\nmaleficum celare nefas. mors dura necabit\npermixtum pecudi coitus deformis in actu.\nlinquat uita uiros demonum sacella uerentes.\nquandoquidem soli domino fas subdere colla.\nnemo peregrinum uiolet uerboue manuue:\nidcirco quoniam uosmet suscepit Aegyptus\nlinquentes genitale solum sedemque priorem.\nfemina defuncto ne sit temnenda marito,\nsed palpanda magis puerique parentibus orbi.\nne paribus poenis subeant fidus nocentes\ndestituantque suos celeri exterritus funere rapti:","t":"But if the mad rage of wolves tears the soft flock,\nthe quarrel is calmed when the flesh is shown.\nBut if anyone lends a pair of bullocks to draw wagons,\nlet him not claim they died under an enormous load\nif he himself was present as driver as they went.\nThis holds also for other beasts pressed by loads put on them.\nBut if he who drives them loses the animals received in haste,\nit is right that he bear the whole loss.\nBut if a man hired for an agreed wage loses them,\nhe shall promptly reckon them in the price of the work.\nIf anyone takes for himself a maiden not betrothed,\nhe shall join her to himself as wife with a dowry.\nBut if there is no agreement to marriage with the girl he has taken,\nlet him give her father the gifts that befit a marriage.\nIt is wrong to hide a sorcerer. Hard death shall kill\none who mingles with a beast in the act of shameful intercourse.\nLet life leave men who revere the shrines of demons,\nsince it is right to bow the neck to the Lord alone.\nLet no one wrong a stranger by word or hand,\nbecause Egypt received you\nwhen you left your native soil and former seat.\nLet a woman whose husband has died not be despised,\nbut rather cherished, and boys bereft of parents,\nlest the guilty suffer the same penalties\nand, terrified by swift death, leave their own bereft:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.913 (CSEL 23:88lines 913–937–89; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-913)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.938":{"o":"acta nam corda deus auditque iuuatque.\ncredito poscenti nummorum quos rogat usum.\nseposita mercede procul usuraque turpi;\nnec festinus age trepidantem. ut sumpta reformet.\nac si forte sui uelamen corporis idem\ncommittit traditque tibi pro pignore nummi.\nrestitue. sol ante caput quam condat olympo.\nmisericors ego sum dominus: hos audio promptim.\nexternis cessate deis maledicere cuncti\npraecipuisque uiris. populi qui frena tenebunt.\nfructibus e primis domino pia dona referto\net quemcumque creas primo de germine nuptae,\nsacrabis domino, sol postquam septimus altum\nest permensus iter. ut sitis sancta propago.\nextinctam pecudem raptorum dente luporum\nnullus edat: mensis quae non sunt digna refutet.\nnon credes narrata tibi, quae nulla fidei\nfirmamenta iuuant. neu falsum dicere testis\niniqua cum mente uelis. nec pluribus unum\nadditus in coetum certes superare nocentem,\nut tenuem et modicum quaesito ex crimine damnes.\nquin potius si forte pecus errare uidebis,\ncum quo corda tibi non sunt coniuncta, reforma.\net si mole graui iumenta obnoxia sunt,\nerige et alternis conitens subleua palmis.","t":"for God hears and helps afflicted hearts.\nGrant on credit to one who asks the use of the coins he requests,\nputting far away interest and shameful usury;\nand do not hastily press the trembling man to repay what he took.\nAnd if perhaps he entrusts and hands over to you the covering of his body\nas a pledge for the money,\nreturn it before the sun hides its head from heaven.\nI am the merciful Lord: I hear these at once.\nCease, all of you, to curse foreign gods,\nand especially the men who will hold the reins of the people.\nBring pious gifts to the Lord from the first fruits,\nand whatever you beget as the firstborn of a bride\nyou shall consecrate to the Lord after the seventh sun has measured\nits high journey, so that you may be a holy race.\nLet no one eat a beast killed by the tooth of ravening wolves;\nlet him refuse what is unworthy of tables.\nYou shall not believe reports made to you that no support\nof good faith upholds; nor wish to speak falsely as a witness\nwith unjust mind; nor, joined as one to the many\nin a crowd, strive to overpower the innocent\nso as to condemn the weak and humble on a trumped-up charge.\nRather, if perhaps you see wandering the beast\nof one whose heart is not joined to yours, bring it back.\nAnd if beasts of burden are borne down by heavy weight,\nraise them, and, straining, lift them with both hands.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.938 (CSEL 23:89lines 938–962–90; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-938)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.96":{"o":"ille solum uertens puteum peruenit ad altum,\nMadia quem tellus habet, qua sede sacerdos\nIothorus degens natarum germina septem\nediderat densaque domum de stirpe replerat.\nhaec molles commissa sibi cum cura bidentes\nseruabant quiuit cauo de fonte trahebant;\ninfirmam sed forte manum sexumque pauentem\npastores trusere procul, quas sistere contra\nnequaquam audentes promptasue opponere palmas\nuindicat et riguas Moses adiungit ad undas\nexpletasque fouet pecudes tectisque remittit.\npuellae genitore satis mirante reuersae\nanterius solito promptimque ad iussa locutae\naccitum iuuenem paterna ad limina ducunt.\nqui procera praegelido metitus lumine membra\nmaioremque animum forma coniungere natae\ngaudet et eximia cernit de stirpe nepotes.\nSephora nam propero Gersamum sedula partu\nprogenerat fratremque dehinc Eleazaron edit.\nGersamus externa signat regione creatum\nereptumque ducis rigidi Eleazarus irae.\nhaec inter dux morte cadit captiuaque pubes\npressa malis dominum multis plangoribus egit\nintuitus conferre pios plebemque tueri:","t":"He, fleeing the land, came to a deep well\nin the land of Midian, where the priest\nJethro lived, who had begotten seven daughters\nand filled his house with a dense stock.\nThey kept with care the soft sheep entrusted to them\nand were drawing what they could from the hollow spring;\nbut by chance shepherds drove off their weak hands\nand fearful sex; Moses defends them, who did not dare\nto stand against them or oppose them with ready hands,\nbrings the flocks to the watering streams,\ncares for them when they have drunk, and sends them home.\nThe girls, returning earlier than usual to their father’s great wonder,\nand answering at once when he asked,\nbring the young man, summoned, to their father’s threshold.\nHe, weighing the tall limbs with a cool eye,\nrejoices to join a great soul with beauty in marriage to his daughter\nand foresees grandsons of outstanding stock.\nFor Zipporah, diligent, in a quick birth bears Gershom\nand then brings forth his brother Eliezer.\nGershom signifies one born in a foreign land,\nEliezer one rescued from the anger of the harsh leader.\nMeanwhile the leader falls by death, and the captive youth,\npressed by many evils, moved the Lord with many laments\nto look on, to bring his kindness and protect the people,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.96 (CSEL 23:60lines 96–119–61; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-96)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.963":{"o":"innocuum ne sterne uirum, nam pectore iusto est.\nmunera non sumes trepidi pro cura nocentis\nsollicitique rei, quoniam mox lumina caecant\nsermonesque uirum cunctaque examina frangunt.\nuberibus glebis bis ternos cultor in annos\nimmineat uegetus, debet quia septimus esse\notia lenta ferens, quo pauper quisque capessat\nquae fuerant generata palam. laetusque relinquat\nquae superant mandenda feris, dum saltibus errant.\ncircite perpetua uolucris dum uoluitur annus,\ndiuisos in trina modos sollemnia uobis\nsepteno seruanda die, quo mollia ius est\nazyma triticeo gaudentes sumere farre,\nut monui dudum, primo uos mense nouorum,\nlibertas cum plena fuit discedere Aegypto.\nante meos uultus uacuus ne prodeat ullus.\nprimitias operum messisque exordia nosce\nfesta tibi, quotiens sementem sparseris agro.\nuel cum decurso requies coniungitur anno,\nomnibus explicitis, generat quae cura laborum.\nomnis homo trinum distinguat tempus in anno.\nante meos possit quo sese ostendere uultus.\nnam cum laeta tibi fuerit possessio terrae\ngentibus edomitis commissa et credita, nosce\nazyma sola meis ponenda altaribus esse;","t":"Do not lay low an innocent man, for he is of a just heart.\nYou shall not take gifts to favour a trembling guilty man\nand an anxious defendant, since they soon blind the eyes\nand break the words of men and every judgment.\nOn rich clods let the vigorous farmer labour for twice three years,\nbecause the seventh must be one\nthat brings slow leisure, in which every poor man may take\nwhat has grown openly, and gladly leave\nwhat remains to be eaten by wild beasts as they roam the glades.\nIn the perpetual circle, as the winged year revolves,\nfestivals of three kinds are to be kept by you,\nand on the seventh day it is right, rejoicing,\nto take soft azyma of wheaten meal,\nas I warned you long ago, in the first month of the new season,\nwhen you had full freedom to depart from Egypt.\nLet no one come empty-handed before my face.\nKnow that the first fruits of your works and the beginnings of the harvest\nare festivals for you, whenever you scatter seed in the field,\nor when rest is joined to the year’s completed course,\nall things being finished that the care of labour produces.\nLet every man mark three times in the year\nat which he may show himself before my face.\nFor when the glad possession of the land\nhas been committed and entrusted to you, the nations subdued, know\nthat only unleavened bread is to be set on my altars;","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.963 (CSEL 23:90lines 963–987–91; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-963)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2.988":{"o":"multimodas pecudes et rubram sanguinis undam\nnil festis prodesse tuis adipemque Gomorra,\nperuigilem et noctem durare in tempora lucis.\nquae redeunt, quotiens sacrorum cura recursat.\nagnus neue tener materno in lacte coquatur.\necce ego sidereum caelesti ex arce ministrum\nad curam dimitto tuam, qui robore multo\nuadentem ad terram foueat. quae pinguibus aruis\nlaeta uiret dulcesque euoluit nectaris undas.\nhunc audire parans sacratis crede loquellis.\nconiunctus est ille tibi fidusque manebit.\nperpetuum retinens caelesti in uertice nomen.\nheia agite sanctisque auditum iungite dictis.\nmandatumque meum sincera adsumite mente;\nut sitis plebs cara mihi populusque beatus\net regnum sublime dei. gens ardua semper,\nomnibus in terris, quas sol utrumque recurrens\nadspicit et calido mundum conplectitur axe.\nconcordes palpabo tuos cunctisque resistam,\nqui tecum bellare parant; tibi cedet Amorreus\nCethaeusque ferox et quos nunc optima tellus\nsustinet, in saeclum te mox uertenda colono.\nprouide, ne uetitis adclines colla sacellis\nhostilesque deos trepide subnixus adores.","t":"that manifold cattle and the red stream of blood\navail nothing for your feasts, and that the fat\nshall not last through the wakeful night into the hours of light\nthat return whenever the care of the rites recurs.\nAnd let not a tender lamb be cooked in its mother’s milk.\nSee, I send a starry minister from the heavenly citadel\nto take care of you, to cherish you with much strength\nas you go to the land that flourishes gladly with rich fields\nand pours out sweet waves of nectar.\nPrepare to hear him and trust his holy words.\nHe is joined to you and will remain faithful,\nkeeping an everlasting name at heaven’s summit.\nCome now, join your hearing to the holy words\nand take up my command with sincere mind,\nthat you may be a people dear to me and a blessed nation\nand a lofty kingdom of God, a race always exalted\nin all lands that the sun, returning on either side,\nbeholds as it embraces the world with its hot axle.\nI will cherish those who agree with you and resist all\nwho prepare to war with you; the Amorite will yield to you,\nand the fierce Hittite and those whom now the best of lands\nsustains, soon to be turned over to you as its tiller for ever.\nTake care not to bend your necks to forbidden shrines\nor, relying on them in fear, worship hostile gods.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 2.988 (CSEL 23:91lines 988–1011–92; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/2-988)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3.1":{"o":"Postquam conspicuo longinqua in deuia templo\nponeret et geminus quae ferret commoda turtur:\nquaeue columba pari sociata et iuncta columbae\nsed mirum, pecudum caesarum uiscera raptim\nignis edax celso rapiebat sidere missus.\nInterea iuuenes uegeti iam fortibus annis.\nesse sibi licitum stolido dum pectore credunt.\nNabdus et Abiudus, Aronis nota prophetae.\npignora, sacrilegis accendunt ritibus ignem.\nhaut multum dilata nece: nam fulgur ab axe\nemicuit supero atque inter uota necauit\nnon sincera uiros. multum genitore maerente.\nfrigentumque dehinc tumulantur membra sepulchro.\nmox tamen abstinuit genitor lugere sepultos\ngermanique omnes, fletum prohibente propheta.\nqui populo permissus erat: namque igneus ardor.\ncaelesti de sede uolans. concusserat omnes\ninserto terrore uiros palamque uidebant\ntemnendum non esse deum. qui non foret absens.\nHaec inter domini cognoscit uoce sacerdos\nuina negata sibi mellitaque sicera natis.\nne. quando dominum positas uenerentur ad aras.\nhalitus offendat uinoso ex pectore missus.\ncommunis populo distinguit regula uictus :\net quid uel liceat uel fas adsumere non sit.","t":"After he had set up the conspicuous temple in the far wilderness,\nand what benefits the twin turtledove would bring,\nor the dove joined and paired with a dove …\nBut, a marvel, fire sent from a lofty star\nswiftly seized the flesh of the slaughtered cattle.\nMeanwhile young men, vigorous now in their strong years,\nbelieving in their foolish hearts that it was allowed them,\nNadab and Abihu, the known children of the prophet Aaron,\nkindle fire with sacrilegious rites.\nTheir death was not long delayed: for lightning flashed\nfrom the sky above and killed the men amid their insincere offerings,\nwhile their father mourned greatly.\nAnd then their cold limbs are buried in a tomb.\nSoon, however, the father refrained from mourning the buried,\nand all their brothers too, the prophet forbidding the weeping\nthat was permitted to the people; for the fiery heat,\nflying from its heavenly seat, had shaken all\nthe men with the terror it brought, and they saw openly\nthat God, who was not absent, was not to be scorned.\nMeanwhile the priest learns from the Lord’s voice\nthat wine and honeyed strong drink are denied to him and his sons,\nlest, when they worship the Lord at the altars set up,\nbreath sent from a wine-filled breast should offend.\nA common rule of food distinguishes for the people\nwhat is allowed and what it is not right to take.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 3.1 (CSEL 23:105lines 1–29; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3-1)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3.102":{"o":"sic tamen ut uitulum proprio pro crimine mactet.\nproque synagoga similes mox immolet hircos.\nsorte sub oblata, unus qua deuius erret.\npeccantum delicta ferens secumque recondens.\nast alius placidam ut domino mactetur ad aram.\noptima siderei laturus commoda doni.\nBestia uel uolucris, nullo quae sanguine fuso\nfuncta fuit, nullis prandentum est congrua mensis:\nidcirco, quoniam multorum in sanguine mens est.\natque etiam si forte pecus mucrone peremptum\nlaxant croceam sectis de faucibus undam.\ndebet terra tegi. ne sit non condita fraudi.\nInstruit hinc dominus, quae sint consortia noxae\nquaeue iuuent parili concordia pectora nexu.\nquae certis digesta modis hic explicat ordo:\ninprimis genetrix cubili accommoda non est.\nin quo nupta iacet. nullumque agnouerit usum\nexcepta pietate sui mens sedula nati.\nut quae paternis nonnumquam amplexibus haesit.\nhoc germana modo, eadem de matre creata.\naut neptis inspecta tibi natoue nataeue:\nnon amita affectu nec sit matertera foedo\niunctior inue nurum noxalis luxus oberret.\nuel nuptam. quam frater habet; non nouerit usum\nfilia, quem genetrix. lectoue incumbat eodem.","t":"yet so that he slaughters a calf for his own crime,\nand for the congregation soon sacrifices like he-goats,\nby a lot cast, so that one may wander off into the wild,\ncarrying the offences of the sinners and hiding them with itself,\nbut the other is slaughtered for the Lord at the peaceful altar,\nto bring the best benefits of the heavenly gift.\nA beast or bird that has died without its blood being shed\nis fit for the tables of no diners,\nbecause the life is in the blood of many creatures.\nAnd moreover, if perhaps a beast slain by the blade\nlets out a saffron stream from its cut throat,\nthe blood should be covered with earth, lest it lie unburied as an offence.\nNext the Lord instructs which unions are guilty\nand which hearts concord may join in an equal bond,\nwhich this order sets out arranged in fixed ways:\nfirst, a mother is not fit for the bed\nin which a bride lies, and let no mind acknowledge such use,\nbut only the dutiful devotion of her son,\nsince she once clung to his father’s embraces.\nLikewise a sister born of the same mother,\nor a granddaughter, born to you of son or daughter;\nlet not an aunt on the father’s side or the mother’s be joined to you\nin foul affection, nor guilty lust stray toward a daughter-in-law\nor the wife your brother has; let not a daughter know\nthe use her mother knew, nor lie in the same bed,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 3.102 (CSEL 23:107lines 102–126–108; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3-102)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3.127":{"o":"uni mixta uiro, coniunctaque nomina turpet.\nsi nouerca fiat canorum feta nepotum.\nut quae priuigno coniungitur. et duas uno\ngermanas cohibere sinu res absona iuri est.\nuel quam coniuncta uobis de plebe capessit\nproximus; haut natus detur seruire potenti.\nne uetito nomen domini uioletur in actu.\nmasculus obsceno ne sit permixtus amore.\nneu sexum deturpa tuum. nec quadrupes ulla\nnouerit informes coitus nuptaeue uiriue:\ncrimina quae propter dominum laesere potentem\ngentes multimodae, terraque his omnibus iras\nexhibet et sordes, quibus est infecta, refutat.\nat cum triticeas tondet iam messor aristas.\nuel cum flauentes resecat uindemitor uuas.\nnemo legat totum, ut pars linquatur egenti.\nquae suprema fuit. mendum ne dixerit ullus.\nneu furtis seruire uelit nec perdere fratrem\nnec super iniustum iurandi inponere iura.\nlaedere ne libeat quemquam uel rapta tenere.\nneue operi pretium demat mercede locati\nuel una sub nocte um: neu dicere surdo\nsurde uelis damnumue exprobres corporis ulli.","t":"mingled with one man, and defile the names of kin;\nnor take a stepmother, as one who is joined\nto her stepson; and to hold two sisters\nin one embrace is a thing at odds with the law;\nnor the wife whom your neighbour of the people joined to you has taken;\nlet no son be given to serve a mighty idol,\nlest the Lord’s name be profaned in a forbidden act.\nLet no male be mingled in obscene love,\nnor dishonour your own sex; nor let any four-footed beast\nknow shapeless intercourse with woman or man:\nfor these crimes many nations offended\nthe mighty Lord, and the land shows its anger at them all\nand rejects the filth with which it is stained.\nBut when the reaper is cutting the wheaten ears,\nor when the vintager cuts off the yellow grapes,\nlet no one gather everything, so that a part may be left for the needy,\nthe last part. Let no one tell a lie,\nnor be willing to serve theft or ruin his brother,\nnor bind himself by oath upon an unjust cause.\nLet no one be pleased to harm another or keep what is stolen,\nnor keep back the wage of the hired man for his work\neven for one night; nor wish to curse the deaf\nor reproach anyone for a bodily defect.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 3.127 (CSEL 23:108lines 127–149–109; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3-127)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3.150":{"o":"iudicis arbitrium ne sit propensius umquam\nin laeuum dextrumue latus. quia pauperis una\neximiique uiri debet persona uideri\nillis. qui posita rectum discernere lance\nmente queunt docili. mox turgida pectora frena,\ninuisus ne forte fias. dum despicis omnes.\noderis aut fratrem. tacita si cogeris ira,\nsed castiga magis coramque euolue locato,\nut uitet commissa prius mentemque reformet.\net cum iura tibi fuerint commissa nocendi,\nmotus pone libens iramque emitiga totam,\npectore quae tacito dudum contracta uigebat;\nne dominus sis ipse tui uindexque doloris.\nutque tuis cupies iucunda et commoda rebus.\nsic fratri deposce tuo. ne dissona mens sit.\nhoc seruate uiri sanctoque insistite iuri.\nSint iumenta tuis subnixa et subdita plaustris\ncorpore consimili, nec taurum iunge caballo.\nfrena regens; uirides inter nec spargito uites\nfarra serens: uestisque tibi nec discolor ulla\ndiuerso sit texta modo filoue biformi.\ndiligit ancillam si quis mercede seorsa.\nnondum iure dato, quod seruis missio praestat\net data libertas, mortali crimine caret.","t":"Let the judge’s decision never lean\nto the left or the right side, because the person of the poor man\nand of the eminent man must be seen as one\nby those who, with the scale set, can discern what is right\nwith teachable mind. Next, rein in a swollen heart,\nlest perhaps you become hateful while you despise all.\nNor hate your brother if silent anger drives you,\nbut rather rebuke him and set it out before him openly,\nso that he may avoid what he did before and reform his mind.\nAnd when the right to do harm has been entrusted to you,\nwillingly lay aside your emotions and soften all your anger,\nwhich, long gathered in a silent breast, was strong,\nlest you yourself be lord and avenger of your own pain.\nAnd as you wish pleasant and profitable things for your own affairs,\nso ask them for your brother, lest your mind be divided.\nKeep this, men, and stand firm in the holy law.\nLet the beasts that draw your wagons be yoked\nof like body; do not join a bull with a horse\nin harness; nor scatter grain among green vines\nwhen you sow; nor have any garment of different colours\nwoven in a mixed way or with twofold thread.\nIf anyone loves a slave woman bound to another for a price,\nthe right not yet given her that release grants to slaves\nand freedom bestowed, he is free of mortal crime.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 3.150 (CSEL 23:109lines 150–173–110; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3-150)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3.174":{"o":"[puella] si non iuncta uiro sensum coniunxerit unum,\nsi facilis nullo coitus luctamine praestat.\nlenitur per uota deus. si de grege molli\nuotiuus aries domini mactetur ad aram.\ninsita siluestri quotiens sunt germina trunco.\ncarpite post ternos nequaquam poma decembres.\nsed summo sacrate deo; quia quintus edendi\niura dabit uobis licitis cum uictibus annus.\nauguriis seruire nega atque auspicia orsa\npro ueris audire fuge; rectumque capillum\ncrispanti rutilare coma. uel carpere barbam.\naut ferro signare cutem, uel stigmata membris\nindere corporeis haut umquam mitia membris.\nfilia blandiloquis ne sit te mancipe moechis\naut turpi transcripta toro; cantuque medentes\neuitate uiros; dignaque accersite noxa.\nsi iuuenis uetulo non adsurrexerit, et si\nbarbato cuicumque puer, quia grandior aeuo\npostulat officium, paternis quod datur annis.\nsit modio mensura tuo non debilis umquam:\nnec trutinam serues, cui sit semuncia fraudis.\niustus iusta deus quocumque exquirit in actu.\net qui uentriloquos poscunt responsa. refuta.\ndefunctum propter nullus deponere barbam\naut nudare caput studeat frontemue serenam\npolluat aut quidquam, quo sit deformior, optet.","t":"if, not joined to a husband, she has shared his mind,\nif she grants easy intercourse without struggle,\nGod is appeased by vows, if a votive ram\nfrom the soft flock is slaughtered at the Lord’s altar.\nWhenever shoots are grafted on a wild trunk,\ndo not pluck fruit until three Decembers have passed,\nbut consecrate it to the highest God; for the fifth year\nwill give you the right to eat it with lawful food.\nRefuse to serve auguries, and shun hearing\nomens begun as though true; and do not make straight hair\nglow red with curling locks, or pluck the beard,\nor mark the skin with iron, or put brands\non the body’s limbs, never gentle to limbs.\nLet not your daughter be sold by you to smooth-talking adulterers\nor transferred to a shameful bed; and shun men\nwho heal by chants, and bring them to the penalty they deserve.\nIf a young man does not rise for an old man, and if\na boy for anyone bearded, he sins, because one greater in age\ndemands the courtesy that is given to a father’s years.\nLet the measure of your peck never be short,\nnor keep a balance with a half-ounce of fraud.\nGod, being just, requires what is just in every act.\nAnd reject those who seek answers from ventriloquists.\nLet no one take care to shave his beard for the dead,\nor bare his head, or defile his serene brow,\nor wish for anything that makes him more disfigured.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 3.174 (CSEL 23:110lines 174–199–111; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3-174)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3.200":{"o":"femina, noctiuagus si quam possedit adulter.\nconiugio est indigna uiri, quem postea sumat.\net quae de sensu, quo sunt diuortia, missa est.\nnesciat alterius thalamos; purusque sacerdos\nomnibus in rebus nitidum praestabit oliuum.\nquo perfusa prius sacrati uerticis arx est.\nhuic coniunx de gente sua conpertaque soli\nhaereat et uiduam uitet luxuue nocentem.\nne maculosa fiat uetita de matre propago.\net si quis uitium quodcumque in corpore gestat.\n(ille) haud dignus erit, qui (munia) sancta capessat.\ncorpora pura placent, maculis haut inlita foedis.\nfemineus quae luxus habet, cum uota sacrantur.\nquae captu pro quisque suo deuouit ad altar.\nquin et uela simul nequaquam iungere fas est;\nnam maculis sordent. purus est rector in altis.\nfilia sanctifici fuerit si tradita uatis\nexterni sub iura uiri, libamina prima\nnequaquam contingat edens: si coniuge functo\naedibus in patriis coepit consistere, sumat\nquem genitor, secura cibum panemque uicissim.\nquod si sancta manu quicumque admouerit olli\nnescius, ob culpam quintas deportet ad altar.\nPendeat ante tholum lychnus laquearibus altis,\nnoctibus ut praestet flammatum lumen oliuum.","t":"A woman whom a night-wandering adulterer has possessed\nis unworthy of marriage with a man who would take her afterward;\nand she who has been sent away by the decision that makes divorces,\nlet her not know another’s bridal chamber; and the pure priest\nwill in all things provide shining oil,\nwith which the summit of his consecrated head was first anointed.\nLet a wife of his own race, known to him alone, cling to him,\nand let him avoid a widow or one guilty of lust,\nlest his offspring be stained by a forbidden mother.\nAnd if anyone bears any defect in his body,\nhe will not be worthy to take up the holy duties.\nPure bodies please, not smeared with foul blemishes,\n…\nwhich each, according to his means, has vowed to the altar.\nMoreover it is by no means right to offer blemished animals,\nfor they are foul with blemishes; the Ruler on high is pure.\nIf the daughter of a holy priest has been given\nunder the law of a stranger, let her by no means touch\nand eat the first offerings; if, her husband dead,\nshe has come back to live in her father’s house, let her take\nwithout care the food and bread her father takes, in her turn.\nBut if anyone has unknowingly put his hand to holy things,\nfor the fault let him bring a fifth more to the altar.\nLet a lamp hang before the dome from the lofty ceiling,\nso that the oil may give flaming light by night,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 3.200 (CSEL 23:111lines 200–224–112; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3-200)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3.225":{"o":"ne decursa dies pallentes misceat umbras\naedibus in domini sanctaque altaria condat.\nHaec inter calido iuuenes duo felle mouentur:\nhic Hebraeus erat. alius generatus Aegypto.\ndumque alterna sibi dicunt maledicta frementes.\ninmensum domini nomen fuscare querella\nnon timuit Iudaeus iners. dum ducitur ira.\nquod facinus propter castrorum ex aggere tractus\net positus campi medio. mandante loquella\nsublimis domini. saxorum concidit ictu.\npercurrit pia iura deus atque omnia pandit.\nIndigus alterius quotiens uult sumere nummos\npignore deposito. si rus addixerit illi,\ncuius poscit opem, reddat sibi credita promptim,\ncum fuerit ditata manus. atque illa receptet,\nquae fuerant transcripta prius; in perpete uita\nindigus extiterit. illo fit liber in anno.\nquo cunctis est missa quies et dulce leuamen.\nquod si forte domum media quis mancipet urbe,\nrestituat hic aera sibi commissa per annum.\nne post emissum dimittat praedia tempus.\nsic tamen orantum danda est pecunia dextris,\nexigat inplicitum ne post usura lucellum.","t":"lest the day, run out, should mingle pale shadows\nin the Lord’s house and hide the holy altars.\nMeanwhile two young men are stirred with hot gall:\none was a Hebrew, the other born of Egypt.\nAnd while, raging, they hurled curses at each other,\nthe worthless Jew did not fear to darken the immense name\nof the Lord with his complaint, as he is carried away by anger.\nFor this deed, dragged outside the rampart of the camp\nand placed in the middle of the field, at the command\nof the Lord on high he fell under a blow of stones.\nGod goes through his pious laws and sets them all out.\nWhenever a needy man wishes to take another’s money,\nleaving a pledge, if he has made over his land to him\nwhose help he asks, let him promptly repay what was lent him\nwhen his hand has grown rich, and receive back\nwhat had been transferred before; if he remains needy\nall his life, the land becomes free in that year\nin which rest and sweet relief are granted to all.\nBut if perhaps someone sells a house in the middle of a city,\nlet him repay within a year the money entrusted to him,\nlest he lose the property after the time has passed.\nYet money is to be given to the hands of those who ask\nin such a way that interest may not afterwards exact an entangling gain.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 3.225 (CSEL 23:112lines 225–247–113; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3-225)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3.248":{"o":"quisquis inops tenuem uitae non sustinet usum\nac duros perferre dies, meliusque putabit\nsubdere se domino iam libertate remota,\nnon ferat ille iugum ueluti de serua creatus,\nsed uelut adscitus positae mercedis ad actum,\ndonec decurso redeat iam tempore liber,\nquo cunctis concessa simul sunt otia rebus.\nac si ceu domini imperio distractus abibit,\nproximus hunc redimat, aut, si non adfuit ille,\ncontribulis quicumque sui commercia fratris\niussus agat iugumque uiro seruile sequestret.\nnam si legitimo fuerit diuenditus aere,\nseruiet, optato ueniat dum tempus in anno,\nquo cuncti sua iura simul dimissa resumunt.\naut, si parua fuit annorum summa, labore\nconpleat hanc proprio manuum quem praestitit actu.\nsic abeat, quocumque uolet, secumque reducat\nlibera securos pariter cum coniuge natos.\ntalia sincero condentem pectore iussa\npax tranquilla manet, nullo quam bella tumultu\nproturbare queunt; longos sed missa per annos\notia multimodo conplebunt horrea fructu.\nquin etiam si tela ferox destrinxerit hostis,\nexigua. bellante manu detrusus abibit,\nquam libet inmensas acies in proelia ducat.","t":"Whoever, being poor, cannot sustain the thin means of life\nand bear hard days, and thinks it better\nto submit himself to a master, his freedom given up,\nlet him not bear the yoke as one born of a slave woman,\nbut as one engaged for work at a set wage,\nuntil, his time having run, he goes back free\nin the year when leisure is granted to all things together.\nAnd if he goes off sold, as by a master’s command,\nlet his next of kin redeem him, or, if he is not there,\nlet anyone of his tribe be charged to transact his brother’s case\nand take the servile yoke off the man.\nFor if he was sold for lawful money,\nhe will serve until the time comes in the desired year\nin which all together take back their rights that were let go;\nor, if the sum of years was small, let him make it up\nby the labour of his hands that he has given.\nSo let him go wherever he will and take back with him\nhis children, free and safe, together with his wife.\nWhoever keeps such commands with sincere heart,\ntranquil peace remains for him, which wars can disturb\nwith no tumult; but leisure sent through long years\nwill fill the granaries with manifold fruit.\nMoreover, if a fierce enemy draws his weapons,\nhe will go away thrust back by a small fighting band,\nhowever immense the ranks he leads into battle.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 3.248 (CSEL 23:113lines 248–272; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3-248)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3.273":{"o":"ast illum, qui iussa dei sublimia uitat,\nmortis terror aget, ceu ferrum torqueat hostis,\npraecipitique fuga trepida condetur in urbe.\nhinc postrema fames morbis pallentibus illum\nambiet et saturus quamuis ieiuna putabit\nora sibi semperque metu redeunte timebit.\nac si conlibitum portis bipatentibus ire,\nquo sensus duxere sui, hunc maesta per agros\nundique desertos heremus confundet euntem,\nraptoresque lupos et quae sunt dente uel ungui\nterribiles per rura ferae, plus triste timebit:\net quamuis pingui generetur caespite terrae\nuerna seges, teneras culmis non promet aristas.\nnatorum tum membra pater ceu dulcia morsu\nadpetet atque fame genetrix demittet ad aluum.\nquod genuit fecunda prius. tum uincula captis\ninponet iam uictor ouans flammaeque micantes\nadtollent rutilos per tecta ingentia crines,\nurbibus in cinerem uersis, quae foeda gerentes\nambierant ualido quondam tutamine muri.\ndeficient tituli, uariarum insignia laudum;\net quae pulchra prius fuerant, destructa peribunt,\nut deus in celsis semper uenerandus ametur,\nidola quem nequeunt mentito adtingere cultu.","t":"But him who shuns the lofty commands of God\nthe terror of death will drive, as though an enemy were whirling a sword,\nand in headlong flight he will hide trembling in a city.\nThen extreme famine with pale diseases will surround him,\nand though full he will think his mouth fasting\nand will always fear, his fear ever returning.\nAnd if he wishes to go out through the double gates\nwhere his mind has led him, the sad wilderness will confound him\nas he goes through fields deserted on every side,\nand he will fear yet more sadly ravening wolves and the beasts\nthat are terrible through the countryside with tooth or claw;\nand though the spring crop springs from the rich turf of the land,\nit will put forth no tender ears on its stalks.\nThen the father will seek the limbs of his children\nas sweet to bite, and the mother in hunger will send down into her belly\nwhat she once fruitfully bore. Then the victor, rejoicing,\nwill put chains on the captives, and flashing flames\nwill raise their ruddy hair through the great houses,\nthe cities turned to ash, which, harbouring foul things,\nstrong walls once surrounded with protection.\nThe inscriptions will fail, the emblems of varied praises,\nand what was beautiful before will perish, destroyed,\nso that God may be loved, ever to be revered on high,\nwhom idols cannot touch with their lying worship.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 3.273 (CSEL 23:113lines 273–296–114; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3-273)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3.297":{"o":"Quae deinde in uotis maneat taxatio dragmae,\nfemina si fuerit seu mas donatus ad altar,\nperscripsit rubrica dei, seu grandior aeuo,\nseu puer aut uirgo nondum pubentibus annis,\nseu domus aut fundus, seu quidquid mente dicatur,\ncum secura deo gaudet mens credere summo,\nseu cum sollicitis agitur permota periclis,\nni quibus inplicitus ne sese inuolueret error,\npars expressa manet, pars est concredita uati,\nut decimos etiam taxet sententia fructus.\nsi libitum retinere pecus agrumue domumue,\ndonantis sub iure fuit: mox pendat ad altar\ncommoda quae pretiis indunt concordia nummi.","t":"Then what valuation in drachmas holds in vows,\nwhether a woman or a male has been given to the altar,\nthe rubric of God has written out, whether one older in age,\nor a boy or girl of years not yet grown,\nor a house or a farm, or whatever is dedicated in the mind,\nwhen the untroubled mind rejoices to trust the highest God,\nor when it is driven and disturbed by anxious dangers,\nlest error entangle those caught up in it;\npart remains set out, part is entrusted to the priest,\nso that the ruling also values the tithes of the fruits.\nIf one wishes to keep the beast or field or house,\nit was under the right of the giver; let him soon pay at the altar\nthe sum that coins in agreement assign to the prices.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 3.297 (CSEL 23:114lines 297–309–115; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3-297)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3.30":{"o":"eloquitur. quem nostra etiam conuiuia morem\ncaelesti sub lege tenent: ne uultur in escis\naut coruus picaue fiant. neu buteo fumus\naccipiterue sagax aut miluus ore obunco.\net quae difficile est metato edicere uersu:\nne quae munda parum congesta in pectore sidunt.\ninnocuas tactu faciant sordescere fibras.\nfemina. quae licito uacuatur uiscera partu.\nsi puerum generat, septeno in lumine sordet\ncorpore cum toto; sed cum se uerterit axis\noctauus. quo sollemne est truncare pudenda.\npelliculum demet ueretri. atque inde sedebit\nter denis tribusque dehinc iam feta diebus.\nne. quae sanctificis adolentur cultibus, audax\npolluat aut uisu aut foedo altaria tactu.\nquodsi concepta laxant membra puellae,\nobseruans geminum tempus nil fraudis habebit,\nquo deinde expleto confestim dona uouebit\nturtures aut geminos. similes aut terga columbas.\naut grege de molli candentis uelleris agnum,\nut saniem precibus ualeat cohibere sacerdos.","t":"he declares; a custom that our own banquets also keep\nunder heaven’s law: that the vulture not be among our foods,\nnor the raven or magpie, nor the buzzard,\nnor the keen hawk, nor the kite with hooked beak,\nand other things it is hard to tell in measured verse,\nlest things not clean enough, gathered and settling in the breast,\nmake the innocent organs foul by their touch.\nA woman who empties her womb in lawful childbirth,\nif she bears a boy, is unclean for seven days\nin her whole body; but when the eighth day turns,\non which it is the custom to cut the private parts,\nhe will remove the foreskin of the member, and then she will sit\nfor thirty and three days after giving birth,\nlest she boldly pollute, by sight or foul touch,\nthe altars that are honoured with holy rites.\nBut if the child that she brings forth is a girl,\nshe will keep twice the time and so incur no guilt;\nthen, when that is completed, she will at once offer gifts,\ntwin turtledoves or doves like them,\nor a lamb of white fleece from the soft flock,\nso that the priest may by his prayers stop the flow.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 3.30 (CSEL 23:105lines 30–50–106; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3-30)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3.51":{"o":"Morborum quoque effigies et signa docentur,\ndumtaxat quos lepra creat, quae corpore toto\nlutea pallenti perfundit uiscera tabo\nalbentemque cutem maculis feralibus implet,\nut, quia per domini nonnumquam exaestuat iram,\nhoc medicante fugam capiat corpusque relinquat\norantis pro noxa uiri munusque ferentis,\npaupertas quod paupertas, ouans quae uincere dites\nsaepe solet; dominus uotum quia simplicis haurit.\nnec grandis inpensa tamen praestanda medendi:\nnam pullos offerre duos agnosque gemellos,\nut uitulo coniungat ouem, ius praecipit omne,\npolline cum tenui, quam sparsit riuus oliui.\nhaec diues offerre potest: sed munera paruum\nparua manent; namque aut uitulum mactabit ad aram,\nqui uiget explicito bis senis mensibus anno,\net quiddam de farre pio, quod miscit oliuo,\nturtures aut geminos, similes aut forte columbas.\nQuin etiam somnos hominum quia saepe uoluptas\nper noctem deludit iners, si forte ueretro\nsemina destillant, fit corpus turpe iacentum\ninmundumque manet, donec iam uesper ab aethra\nconspicuus laeto praecedat lumine noctem;\nnec solum foedo deturpant corpora naeuo,\nsed quidquid contingit agens, quem somnia fuscant:","t":"The forms and signs of diseases are also taught,\nat least those that leprosy causes, which floods\nthe flesh of the whole body with yellowish pale corruption\nand fills the white skin with deadly spots,\nso that, since it sometimes boils up through the Lord’s anger,\nit may take flight by this remedy and leave the body\nof the man who prays for his guilt and brings a gift.\nPoverty, which, rejoicing, often overcomes the rich …\nbecause the Lord drinks in the vow of the simple.\nYet no great expense need be provided for the healing:\nfor every law prescribes the offering of two young birds and twin lambs,\nso that a sheep is joined to a calf,\nwith fine flour sprinkled with a stream of olive oil.\nThese a rich man can offer; but small gifts remain\nfor the poor; for either he will sacrifice at the altar a calf\nthat thrives, a year of twelve months complete,\nand some sacred meal that he mixes with oil,\nor twin turtledoves, or perhaps doves like them.\nMoreover, because sluggish pleasure often mocks men’s sleep\nin the night, if perhaps seed drips from the member,\nthe body of the sleeper becomes foul\nand remains unclean until the evening star,\nconspicuous in the sky, goes before the night with glad light;\nnor do such dreams disfigure only the bodies with foul stain,\nbut whatever he touches in his acts whom dreams have darkened.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 3.51 (CSEL 23:106lines 51–75; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3-51)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3.76":{"o":"id propter fluuio fas est perfundere membra,\npuritas ut redeat propere cessante reatu.\ntestea quin etiam fas est perfringere uasa\ncontactu maculata uiri, at facta metallo\ndiluere ac uitreo sordes diducere riuo.\nHac etiam liciti coitus sub lege piantur.\nilicet exutis membrorum labe molesta\nantistes praestabit opem, cum sole reuerso\nseptima puniceis aurora eluxerit astris,\nturture si gemino ueniat subnixus ad aram\npeccati uotique reus paribusque columbis\nFemina, decurso quae fit iam menstrua mense.\nfoedatur sanie madida, quae promitur aluo.\net quidquid tangit, maculat, dum septimus exit\nlucifero redeunte dies; sin auctius urget\nunda nocens certique abscedit temporis ordo.\nindiscreta mali facies idemque reati\nfinis erit, sanctam si promat munus ad aram\nex his, quas domino constat placuisse uolucres.\nInterea extinctis mento sub crimine natis\nAaronis proceris dominus haec intimat ingens.\nut, quia praetentis dimissa umbracula uelis\naltar habet sacraque simul praenubitur arca,\ntemporibus certis sese referatque locetque\nsacerdos pia uota ferens, quia sanctus ibidem\nconsistat dominus albenti in nube uidendus.","t":"For this reason it is right to bathe the limbs in a river,\nso that purity may return quickly as the guilt ceases.\nMoreover it is right to break earthen vessels\nstained by the man’s touch, but to wash those made of metal\nand draw off the dirt with a glassy stream.\nUnder this law lawful intercourse too is purified.\nThen, the troublesome stain of the limbs removed,\nthe priest will give help, when, the sun returned,\nthe seventh dawn has shone with purple stars,\nif the man comes to the altar relying on twin turtledoves,\nguilty of sin and of a vow, and on paired doves.\nA woman, when the month has run its course and her period comes,\nis defiled by the moist discharge that comes from the womb,\nand whatever she touches she stains, until the seventh day\ngoes out with the return of the morning star; but if the guilty flow\npresses more abundantly and departs from the order of its fixed time,\nthe form of the evil will be the same and the same the end\nof the guilt, if she brings to the holy altar a gift\nof those birds that are known to have pleased the Lord.\nMeanwhile, after the sons of the chief Aaron had been destroyed\nfor their crime, the mighty Lord makes this known:\nthat, because the altar has shade let down from veils stretched before it\nand the sacred ark is likewise covered in cloud,\nthe priest should go and stand there at fixed times,\nbringing pious vows, because the holy Lord\nstands there, to be seen in a white cloud.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 3.76 (CSEL 23:106lines 76–101–107; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/3-76)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.1":{"o":"Verterat interea solitis recursibus annus,\nmensibus explicitis sua per uestigia currens,\npostquam lecta deo pubes Nilotica liquit\nlitora et e Pharia tandem migrarat harena;\ncum deus astrigera fulgens de sede locutus\nimperat, ut uates tribuum mandata tribunis\ncerta ferat plebemque dehinc percenseat omnem,\nsepositis pueris et quos iam grandior aetas\nexhibet inmunes trepidi sub cura duelli,\nut, quae summa fiat, bis denis noscat ab annis.\nilli alacres relegunt numero currente per omnes\nturmas quisque suas cursimque inspecta locuntur\nnomina, bissenis tribubus quae condita perstant.\nhaec sexcenta simul conplerunt et tria iunctim\nmilia, quingentos pariter si iungere cures\nquinquies et denos, domuum cum deinde uiritim\nnotio perdocuit procerum bis milia sena.\nLeuitas uero, domini quos cura sacrorum\nsola manet, uetuit plebis coniungere summae.\nhinc adlecta deo Getsonum milia septem,\nquingentis pariter positis; Gaada seorsum\nbis quaterna facit sexcentis comminus auctis;\ntertia bis ternis sed milibus atque ducentis\nexhibuit patrio dicta sermone Merara.","t":"Meanwhile the year had turned in its accustomed course,\nrunning in its own tracks as its months unrolled,\nsince the youth chosen by God had left the shores\nof the Nile and at last migrated from the Egyptian sand,\nwhen God, shining from his starry seat, spoke\nand commands the prophet to bring sure commands to the tribunes\nof the tribes and then to number all the people,\nsetting aside the boys and those whom a greater age\nnow shows exempt from the care of anxious war,\nso that he might know what the sum is from twenty years up.\nThey eagerly go over the number running through all,\neach his own squadrons, and quickly report the names inspected,\nwhich stand set down in twelve tribes.\nThese together made six hundred and three\nthousand, if you take care to add five hundred\nand five times ten, while then the knowledge of the houses,\nman by man, showed the chiefs to be twice six.\nBut the Levites, whom the care of the Lord’s sacred things\nalone awaits, he forbade to be joined to the people’s total.\nHence seven thousand of the Gershonites were chosen for God,\nwith five hundred added; Kohath separately\nmakes twice four thousand, with six hundred added to them;\nbut the third, called Merari in their native speech,\nshowed twice three thousand and two hundred.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.1 (CSEL 23:117lines 1–24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-1)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.102":{"o":"ille etiam niueos panes conspargat oliuo,\net quidquid sacri ueteris sollemnia poscunt,\nut ualeat rursum desueta adsumere pocla.\nergo agite, et plebem quotiens sacrare precatu\norantem cupitis, hoc Christum poscite fatu:\n\"Dextera uerticibus hominum dum prona recumbit,\ncandidus aetheria uobis benedicat ab aula\nomnipotens, custosque fiat per saecula uester,\nfulgentemque deus faciem super omnia uestrum\nattollat capita, et sit miserator in aeuum;\neleuet et uultus, ut uos de sede reuisat\ninclita et ingenti dominus det munere pacem.\"\nnec minus interea uates circum omnia promptus\niussa dei primam castris socialibus aedem\nexornat domini pinguique inrorat oliuo.\net quaecumque nitent argento effecta uel auro\nuasa domus sanctae, simili de flumine lauit.\nplaustra dehinc, tribuum dederant quae iuncta tribuni,\ncornigeris bobus parilem diuisit ad usum\nLeuitisque dedit; geminis bis ducta iuuencis\ncarra duo primae Getsonum tradita turmae;\nat Merara cohors quaterno bis boue iuncta\nquattuor accepit rebus carpenta ferendis,\nquae sacris sunt facta dei; nam sola Gaada\ninmunis donis gestauit pondera collo.","t":"He also sprinkles snowy loaves with oil,\nand whatever the solemnities of the ancient rite require,\nso that he may again take the cups he had given up.\nCome then, and whenever you wish to consecrate the people\nas they pray, ask Christ in these words:\n“While the right hand rests bent over the heads of men,\nmay the shining Almighty bless you from the heavenly hall,\nand may he become your guardian through the ages,\nand may God lift his shining face over all\nyour heads, and be merciful for ever;\nand may he lift up his countenance, so that he may look on you again\nfrom his glorious seat, and may the Lord give peace as his immense gift.”\nMeanwhile the prophet, ready in all God’s commands,\nadorns the first house of the Lord in the allied camp\nand sprinkles it with rich oil,\nand whatever vessels of the holy house gleam, made of silver or gold,\nhe washed with the same stream.\nThen the wagons, which the tribunes of the tribes had given yoked,\nhe divided with horned oxen for equal use\nand gave to the Levites; two carts drawn by twice two bullocks\nwere handed to the first band, the Gershonites;\nbut the Merari cohort received four carriages,\nyoked with twice four oxen, to carry the things\nmade for the rites of God; for Kohath alone,\nexempt from the gift, carried its loads on the neck.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.102 (CSEL 23:119lines 102–126–120; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-102)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.127":{"o":"Interea tribuum proceres pia dona ferentes\ndiscretos habuere dies; namque agmina plebis\nsunt quingenta, simul uiginti et milia bina,\nbis senis ducenda uiris, quorum ordine primo\nuouit Iuda tribus donum Nassone tribuno;\nin quo uasa dedit argento insignia fuluo,\nquae simul expletis faciunt bis pondera centum\natque decem, niuea prorsum siligine plena,\nsacrorum ex more riuo uiridantis oliui\npraemadida uitulumque dehinc agnumque nitentem\narietemque simul, haedus cui iungitur albens,\nqui peccata leuat, simili cum fronte iuuencas\nuna duas, quae sacra iuuant coniuncta saluti,\narietes quinque hircosque agnasque sequentes\nconsimili numero: primi sunt muneris ista.\nPost haec quaeque tribus discretis laeta diebus\ndona dedit nusquam fraterno in munere discors,\nomnibus in uasis pariter si summa locetur.\nat uero in gabatis caelato ardentibus auro\nuiginti centumque fiunt per pondera librae.\nHaec ubi deuouit sacrorum insignia uates,\neffantem dominum sacrata audiuit in aede,\ndum super eximia rutilans fastigia candet\natque (Cherubinos inter dat dogmata. legis.","t":"Meanwhile the chiefs of the tribes, bringing pious gifts,\nhad separate days; for the columns of the people\nare five hundred and twenty and two thousand,\nto be led by twice six men; of whom in first order\nthe tribe of Judah vowed its gift through its tribune Nahshon,\nin which he gave vessels outstanding with tawny silver,\nwhich together, when filled, make weights of twice a hundred\nand ten, full indeed of snowy fine flour,\nsoaked, according to the custom of sacrifices, in a stream\nof green olive oil; and then a calf and a shining lamb\nand a ram together, with which is joined a white kid\nthat lightens sins; two bullocks of like brow together,\nwhich, joined, help the sacred rites for salvation;\nfive rams and he-goats and lambs following\nin like number: these were the first gift.\nAfter this each tribe on separate days gladly\ngave gifts, nowhere differing in the brotherly gift,\nif the sum of all the vessels is set out alike.\nBut in the dishes gleaming with engraved gold\nthe weight comes to a hundred and twenty pounds.\nWhen the prophet had dedicated these emblems of the sacred rites,\nhe heard the Lord speaking in the sacred house,\nwhile, glowing, he shines above the outstanding summit\nand gives the teachings of the law between the Cherubim.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.127 (CSEL 23:120lines 127–150–121; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-127)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.151":{"o":"nec minus et positae diuersa in parte lucernae\nbis senas uomuere faces, quas candidus ordo\ndistinctim rutilare dedit, dum brachia pandit\naurea ceriforum, discreta et lumina fulcit.\nInterea Leuita manus donaria tractans\na bis uicenis et quinque adsumitur annis,\net qui seruitium iam denis quinquies annis\nexplerit domini, uacuus sit cura parendi\ninque locum uetuli iuuenis succedat et adsit.\nquorum rore leui redduntur corpora pura\nfluminis aut fontis, et acuti lammina ferri\ncaesariem comit, si crinis sorduit ingens.\nindumenta dehinc studio curaque lauantur,\nne quando occultum maculent contagia corpus.\nHaec inter de plebe uiri, quos criminis atrox\ncura sequebatur, animo dum teste fatentur,\nexorant procerem, si possent pascha sacratum\nconsueto celebrare die; quos ille parumper\nsustinet ac domini subnixus iussa precatur\nmandatumque refert, quod tinctis crimine ius est\ninsignem sacrare diem cultumque referre.\nquem nox laeta monet, decurso cum uenit anno.\nAt uero innocuus populi si festa retractet,\nnec procul a templo teneat hunc cura uiandi.\ncrimen habet mortis: lex est haec omnibus aequa.","t":"And the lamps placed on the other side\nput forth twice six flames, which the bright row\nwas set to shine separately, while the golden lampstand\nspreads its arms and holds up its separate lights.\nMeanwhile the Levite band handling the offerings\nis taken from the age of twice twenty and five years,\nand he who has completed the Lord’s service for five times ten years,\nlet him be free of the duty of serving,\nand let the young man succeed to the old man’s place and be present.\nTheir bodies are made pure with a light sprinkling\nfrom river or spring, and a blade of sharp iron\ntrims their hair if their thick locks are dirty.\nThen their garments are washed with zeal and care,\nlest contagion ever stain the hidden body.\nMeanwhile men of the people who were troubled\nby fierce care for a defilement, confessing it with conscience as witness,\nask the chief whether they might celebrate the sacred Passover\non the accustomed day; he holds them back a little\nand, relying on the Lord’s commands, prays,\nand reports the command that those stained with defilement may\nhallow the notable day and renew the worship\nthat the glad night recalls when it comes at the year’s end.\nBut if an innocent man of the people turns away from the festival,\nand no need of travel keeps him far from the temple,\nhe incurs a capital charge: this law is the same for all.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.151 (CSEL 23:121lines 151–175–122; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-151)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.176":{"o":"Postquam cuncta pius perfecit munia uates.\nquae templo sunt digna dei, mox agmina mouit\nterrificasque tubas ualidis clangoribus implet.\nquas prius argento domini per iussa pararat.\nlammina dum tenuis teretem sinuatur in orbem.\nexiguum[que] signum uentosa ad murmura pandit\nordinibus positis, ut primo bucina cantu\nsollicitas acies ad sancta oracula sistat.\nhaec properat prima castrorum portio, quae se\nporrigit aurorae primaque ad lumina solis.\ncumque alios sonitus iteret tuba, prodeat agmen,\nquod leuis obuerso de cardine respicit auster.\ntertius at crepitus litui legionibus illis\ndat signum, quae castra tenent contermina ponto,\npost quas uasa. legit aquiloni obiecta iuuentus.\nat cum Leuitae diuina ad munia lecti\nagmina. conmorant, Aronis pignora uatis,\niam tum pontifices, lituos inflare manebat\ncura decens cunctaque deo transcripta ciere.\ndeueniunt primis longa in deserta uadentes\nad Pharana locum castris; hic uates amico\nexorat generum fatu Raguele creatum\nObabum iuuenem, terrae Madanitis alumnum.\nut pariter gradiens promissa ad regna ueniret,\nin quibus ubertim manarent dulcia plenis\nmella fauis niuei multo cum flumine lactis.","t":"After the pious prophet had completed all the duties\nworthy of the temple of God, he soon moved the columns\nand fills the terrifying trumpets with strong blasts,\nwhich he had earlier made of silver at the Lord’s command,\nwhile a thin sheet is curved into a round tube.\nIt gives a small signal to the windy murmurs,\nthe ranks being set, so that at the first call the trumpet\nmay halt the anxious ranks before the holy oracles.\nThe first part of the camp hastens at this, the part that\nstretches toward the dawn and the first light of the sun.\nAnd when the trumpet repeats other sounds, let the column go forth\nthat the light south wind looks upon from the opposite quarter.\nBut the third blast of the clarion gives the signal\nto those legions that hold the camp bordering the sea,\nafter which the youth facing the north gathers its gear.\nBut while the Levites chosen for divine duties\nhold back the columns, the children of the prophet Aaron,\nalready priests, had the fitting duty of blowing\nthe trumpets and of summoning all that was assigned to God.\nGoing into the long desert, they come with their first camp\nto the place Paran; here the prophet with friendly speech\nentreats his kinsman Hobab, the young man born of Reuel,\na son of the land of Midian,\nto go with them and come to the promised realms,\nin which sweet honey flows abundantly from full combs\nwith a great river of snowy milk.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.176 (CSEL 23:122lines 176–201–123; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-176)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.202":{"o":"sed piger et dubia paulisper mente moratus\nad patrias mauult cursum conuertere sedes,\nnequaquam edomitus soceri sermone rogantis:\n\"Cur, inquit, diuersus abis? huc dirige mentem:\nquo domini nos regna uocant, quae ditia semper.\nsemper honorata nulla sub labe uacillant.\net quae causa tamen tam dura et nescia nobis\nte mouet, ut fines repetas gentemque paternam ?\nquam procul et dudum, sensu meliora petente,\ndimissam mediis heremus disiungit harenis:\nin quo nulla tuos mouit sententia sensus.\net potuit tum causa fore, quia iustius ista\npercuperes, cum nulla uagis currentia riuis\npocla forent calidoque arderent sidere solis,\ncumque iter ambiguum et spes incerta futuri\nignaros quateret. at nunc iam fine sub ipsa\nlaboris modici, cum se felicia regna\nexhibeant iungantque dei, sic mente uacillas,\nceu suadeam peiora tibi, quam sensibus opto.\nquin potius, iuuenis, caro te redde parenti,\net coeptam percurre uiam munusque receptum\nperfice, ut optatis cum primum sedibus omnes\ncondiderit dominus, quae sunt meliora capessas,\net proceres inter positus sis grandior actu.\"\nInde abeunt montemque dei posterga relinquunt:","t":"But he, sluggish and lingering a while with doubtful mind,\nprefers to turn his course back to his native home,\nnot at all won over by the words of his kinsman, who asks:\n“Why do you go off another way? Turn your mind here,\nwhere the Lord’s realms call us, which, ever rich,\never honoured, waver under no fall.\nAnd yet what cause, so hard and unknown to us,\nmoves you to seek again the borders of your father’s people,\nwhich long ago, far off, when your mind sought better things,\nyou left, and which the wilderness separates by its sands?\nIn that wilderness no thought moved your mind.\nAnd then there might have been a cause, because you would\nmore justly have longed for home, when there were no drinks\nrunning in wandering streams and the hot sun burned,\nand when an uncertain journey and uncertain hope of the future\nshook those who did not know. But now, at the very end\nof a modest labour, when happy realms\nshow themselves and God joins them to us, you waver so in mind,\nas though I were urging you to worse than I wish in my heart.\nRather, young man, give yourself back to your dear kinsman,\nfinish the road you began and complete the task you took up,\nso that, as soon as the Lord has settled all in their longed-for seats,\nyou may take up better things and, placed among the chiefs,\nbe greater in deed.”\nThen they depart and leave the mountain of God behind them:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.202 (CSEL 23:123lines 202–226–124; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-202)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.227":{"o":"nec minus aetherii custodem dogmatis arcam\ncastra sequebantur, postquam se tertius alto\nlucifer extulerat caelo, iam nocte relicta,\nut sanctis domini semper praeeuntibus esset\niusta quies populo, multo sub fasce uianti\ninde prius uates, dum signum sedulus offert\nagminibus primis, haec supplex uerba profatur\n\"Sublimis consurge, deus, atque hostica promptim\nmilia disperge; fugiant bellare parantes\naduersum tua castra, deus, quique inpete sensu\noderunt te, summe sator; tu robora contra\nquamuis firma uales uerbo sternenda perenni.\"\ndicentem nubs clara tegit agmenque refertum\ninmensasque acies obtentu uestis inumbrat.\nat populus truculenta ferox dum murmura uoluit,\nmisit et in dominum rabiosae obprobria linguae.\nquae propter sublimis apex delabitur ignis\naethere de supero plebemque et castra peredit\nparte tenus certa, sed flammas triste micantes\nin segetem poenae iucunda oratio sanctis\nauribus extinxit canoque in puluere soluit;\ndum pius obstipa uates ceruice laborat\ninmensumque deum tanto pro crimine poscit,\natque iterat solum populi tolerare tumultus\nadsiduos fesso nequiquam pectore uelle.","t":"and the ark, guardian of heaven’s teaching,\nwent before the camp, after the third morning star\nhad lifted itself in the high sky, the night left behind,\nso that, with the Lord’s holy things always going before,\nthe people travelling under heavy burdens might have fitting rest.\nThen first the prophet, as he diligently gives the signal\nto the first columns, speaks these words as a suppliant:\n“Rise up on high, O God, and swiftly scatter\nthe enemy thousands; let those flee who prepare to fight\nagainst your camp, O God, and those who with violent mind\nhave hated you, highest Sower; you are strong against\nforces however firm, to be laid low by your everlasting word.”\nAs he speaks, a bright cloud covers him, and overshadows the crowded column\nand the immense ranks with its covering like a garment.\nBut the people, fierce, while they rolled out savage murmurs,\nalso hurled the reproaches of a raging tongue against the Lord.\nFor this the lofty point of fire glides down\nfrom the sky above and devours the people and the camp\nin a certain part; but the flames flashing grimly\nover their harvest of punishment a pleasing prayer quenched\nin the holy ears and dissolved them into grey dust,\nwhile the pious prophet labours with bowed neck\nand entreats the immense God for so great a crime,\nand repeats that he cannot, with his weary breast,\nbear alone the constant tumults of the people.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.227 (CSEL 23:124lines 227–251–125; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-227)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.25":{"o":"has diuersa manet quoniam custodia summas\nsacrorum templique dei, sic castra sequestrant.\nprima legit pelagus; alia se porgit ad austrum;\ntertia praegelidas aquilonis respicit auras.\nat qua prima rubet uenientis flamma diei,\nmaxima conspicui ponunt tentoria uatis.\nhinc genitos primo pueros dinoscere partu\net domino sacrare parat, qui milia conplet\nbis undena, simul bis centum si superaddas\nsepties et denos, pro quis adsumere dragmam\nuatibus est licitum sacrisque addicere templi,\nemptos cum ueluti diuina eliminet ara.\nilicet adplicitos sacrarum ad munera rerum\nex Getsona manu Gadaque et dicta Merara\nbis quaterna legunt quingentis milia iunctis,\nquinquaginta super positis, quos ferre seorsum\nornamenta domus domini uel promere iussit.\nsic ibi iam positis sumebant otia castris;\nex quibus excludi placuit trans limina portae,\nmorborum quis dira tabes corruperat artus,\nne ualidos inter positi contagia ferrent,\nabdita dum calidis errant discrimina uenis.\nilicet uxori tacito qui pectore zelat,\nnec testem, qui prodat, habet, si serus adulter\npolluerit casti quondam cubilia fulchri,\nad uatem festinus eat coramque praesentet.","t":"Since a different guard over the holy things and the temple of God\nawaits these numbers, so they divide the camps.\nThe first takes the side toward the sea; another stretches to the south;\nthe third looks toward the icy breezes of the north.\nBut where the first flame of coming day reddens,\nthe conspicuous prophet’s men pitch the greatest tents.\nNext he prepares to single out the boys born first\nand consecrate them to the Lord, which make twice eleven\nthousand, if you add on top two hundred\nand seven times ten; for these the priests may take\na drachma and assign it to the sacred things of the temple,\nsince the divine altar releases them as though bought.\nAt once they choose those assigned to the service of sacred things\nfrom the band of Gershon and of Kohath and that called Merari,\ntwice four thousand, with five hundred joined\nand fifty more on top, whom he ordered to carry separately\nor bring out the ornaments of the Lord’s house.\nSo there they took their leisure in the camp now pitched;\nfrom it he chose to shut out beyond the threshold of the gate\nthose whose limbs the dire wasting of disease had corrupted,\nlest, placed among the healthy, they bring contagion,\nwhile hidden dangers run through their hot veins.\nAt once, he who is jealous of his wife in a silent breast\nand has no witness to betray her, if a secret adulterer\nhas polluted the bed of a once-chaste couch,\nlet him go in haste to the priest and present before him","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.25 (CSEL 23:117lines 25–50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-25)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.252":{"o":"sed dominus consueta deus solacia uati\nexhibet atque senes fraterno ex agmine poscit\nseptuaginta simul, quorum sententia iuncta\net numero facile iurgantum frangeret iras,\ncum prophetarum pariter tot consona corda\nuno uelut sensu diuina oracula ferrent:\nhi tamen ut pariles cunctis dixere loquellas,\nse remouent suetoque prius sermone loquuntur.\nnec minus et iuuenes, castrorum in parte manentes,\ndiuina cum mente duo certissima fantur\natque prophetali pariter sermone praesagant\nModus et Eldadus; quod postquam nuntius aures\ndetulit ad proceres, Iesus instantius urget,\nut uelut inlicito narrantes uera relatu\nfrenet et obiurget; sed uates protinus almo\narguit adfatu mentemque ex aethere missam\ninuidia cohibere docet non esse fidei.\nilicet Aserotum ueniunt atque aggere uasto\ncastra locant, ceu bella forent nocturna timori.\nhic germana pii uatis fraterque tumescunt\ninuidiaque fremunt: \"Cur coniunx iuncta prophetae\nAethiopissa foret, et cur praesumeret unus\ngermanis commune decus? nam se quoque summi\npercipere monumenta dei atque inclita. iussa. \"\nsedulus haec uates et cunctis mitior audit\ninnocua cum mente silens seque abdicat irae.","t":"But the Lord God gives the prophet his accustomed comfort\nand calls for seventy elders from the brotherly host\ntogether, whose joint judgment\nand number might easily break the anger of the quarrelsome,\nwhen so many prophets’ hearts in harmony together\nshould utter divine oracles as with one mind.\nYet when they had spoken words like the others,\nthey withdraw and speak in their former accustomed way.\nAnd two young men too, remaining in a part of the camp,\nspeak most certain things with a divine mind\nand prophesy together in prophetic speech,\nMedad and Eldad; after a messenger brought this\nto the chief’s ears, Joshua presses urgently\nthat he restrain and rebuke them, as though they spoke true things\nunlawfully; but the prophet at once with kindly words\nrebukes him and teaches that to restrain through envy\na mind sent from heaven is no part of faith.\nAt once they come to Hazeroth and pitch the camp\nwith a vast rampart, as though they feared war by night.\nHere the pious prophet’s sister and brother swell\nand roar with envy: “Why should the wife joined to the prophet\nbe an Ethiopian woman, and why should one man presume\nto the honour common to his kin? For we too\nreceive the memorials and glorious commands of the highest God.”\nThe prophet, attentive and milder than all, hears this,\nsilent, with innocent mind, and renounces anger.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.252 (CSEL 23:125lines 252–277–126; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-252)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.278":{"o":"non tamen indomitos dominus procedere motus\nsublimi de sede sinit coramque locatos\nincrepat et liquida uallatus nube profatur:\n\"Quisquis erit uobis cognata e gente propheta,\nsomnia uera magis sensu spectante uidebit\nnocte super media, cum se sopita relaxant\nsensa uirum sanctique deus dat gaudia uerbi;\ndum loquor et paribus sermonem accommodo dictis.\nqua me perspiciat, oraque et lumina cernat\niuncta sibi, quae nemo ualet dinoscere uiuens?\nat non hic mos est, mea cum sententia uerax\ndonatur uati, tota, qui sede fidelis\nest, mea dum licitis adnectit pectora sacris.\nille meos coram potis est consistere uultus\nperspicuoque deum lustrare et cernere uisu.\nambiguum nihil est nullaque aenigmata uerbis\nsunt inserta meis: confesso me fero uultu:\nille igitur potuit domini regnantis honorem\ncernere et inuisum mortali aduertere lumen.\net uestros inter non quiuit ponere motus\nmitificam pacem tristesque abolere susurros?\"\nuix haec ediderat, cum raptim nube remota\nira uenit domini Mariamque amplexa. trementem\nperculit et toto perfundit corpore lepram.\nhaec exempla uidens Aaron conterritus iniit:","t":"Yet the Lord does not let their untamed passions go further\nfrom his lofty seat, but rebukes them as they stand before him,\nand, walled in a clear cloud, he speaks:\n“Whoever among you of the kindred race is a prophet\nwill rather see true dreams with watchful sense\nat midnight, when the lulled senses of men\nrelax, and God gives the joys of the holy word,\nwhile I speak and fit my discourse to like words;\nbut who could see me and discern my mouth and eyes\njoined to his own, which no one living can make out?\nBut this is not the custom when my true judgment\nis given to the prophet who is faithful in all my house,\nwhile he joins my heart to lawful rites.\nHe is able to stand before my face\nand survey and see God with clear sight.\nNothing is ambiguous and no riddles are set\nin my words: I show myself with open face.\nHe, then, who could see the honour of the reigning Lord\nand turn his mortal eyes to the invisible,\ncould he not set gentle peace among your passions\nand do away with sad whispers?”\nScarcely had he said this, when suddenly, the cloud removed,\nthe anger of the Lord came and, enfolding Miriam,\nstruck her as she trembled and spreads leprosy over her whole body.\nSeeing this example, Aaron, terrified, began:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.278 (CSEL 23:126lines 278–302–127; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-278)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.303":{"o":"Parce, precor, domine, iramque auerte nocentem\npeccatumque meum nostraeque omitte sororis.\nfecimus ignari: nostros quod percutit artus,\nuerberat et sensus, id mors ne missa sequatur,\nultrix nequitiae, custodi et consule nobis!\nnec mora, cum uates precibus dat corda fraternis,\nsupplicibus uotis domini medicamina poscens\nletiferam ob pestem, totos quae sparsa per artus\ngermanae tristi torquebat uiscera. morsu.\ntalia dum clamat: Excedit poena reatum\ntanta! deus, dimitte metum. morboque medere.*\nilicet adnuitur; sed castris femina trusa\nexulat atque tabem septenis passa diebus\ninlaesos recipit laetis cum uultibus artus\nconsuetoque dehinc plebis celebratur honore.\nAt Iudaea phalanx promissa ad praemia tendens\nsigna mouet castraque dehinc Pharanis in aruis\nconlocat et tuto conponit moenia uallo.\nillic sidereo conpulsus mittere fatu\nbissenos iuuenes, tribuum quos esse tribunos\ndiximus anterius. qui terram urbesque Chanannas\nocius inspicerent sociisque exacta referrent.\nilli abeunt saltumque petunt Ematha uocatum\npermensi[que] deserta heremi Chebronaque lustrant,\nquam populi tenuere feri Sesique Thalique.","t":"“Spare, I pray, Lord, and turn away your harmful anger,\nand pass over my sin and our sister’s.\nWe did it unknowing: what strikes our limbs\nand lashes our senses, let not death, sent as\nthe avenger of wickedness, follow; guard us and take thought for us!”\nWithout delay the prophet gives his heart to his brother’s prayers,\nasking with suppliant vows for the Lord’s remedies\nfor the deadly plague that, spread through all her limbs,\nwas torturing his sister’s flesh with its sad bite,\nwhile he cries thus: “The punishment exceeds the guilt,\nso great is it! God, take away the fear and heal the disease.”\nAt once it is granted; but the woman, thrust from the camp,\nlives in exile, and, having suffered the wasting for seven days,\nreceives back her limbs unharmed with glad looks,\nand from then on is held in the accustomed honour of the people.\nBut the Jewish host, making for the promised rewards,\nmoves its standards and then pitches camp in the fields of Paran\nand builds its walls with a safe rampart.\nThere, urged by a word from the stars, Moses sends\ntwice six young men, whom we have said earlier\nwere the tribunes of the tribes, to spy out quickly\nthe Canaanite land and cities and report the results to their companions.\nThey go and make for the glade called Hamath,\nand, having crossed the deserts of the wilderness, survey Hebron,\nwhich fierce peoples held, Sheshai and Talmai.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.303 (CSEL 23:127lines 303–327; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-303)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.328":{"o":"ut uentum ad uallem, iam tum quae consita ficis,\ndulcibus et malis, sed quae lapidosa uocantur\nseu granata magis, laeta cum uite uirebat.\nex hac poma ferunt signum latura fidei\natque etiam ex aliis. diues quae prompserat aruum.\ningentem lenti detondent palmitis uuam\ntransuersoque dehinc nitentes fuste reportant:\natque quaterdenis trepida cum cura diebus\npraeteritis tandem, fuerant quae uisa, reportant,\nterrorem addentes, dum dicunt moenia uasto\nedita suspectu gentesque inmensa. leuantes\nad caelum capita, ueluti cum plurima quercus\nstipitis annosi stellatis iungitur astris.\nFrangitur his populus, sensuque adfectus amaro\ntriste gemit largoque umectat flumine uultus.\ntalia dum memorat: \"O semper laude ferendi\ndigna uiri, quos nulla mali tam grandis imago\nterruit et solita functos tellure locauit!\nquos nec triste solum calidis ambussit harenis,\net multum tolerata sitis mannaeque minutal:\ndulce quidem. sed felle madens. quia non iuuat artus,\nadfecit grauiore fame. cui sola coturnix\niungitur. et tenui consumit corpora uictu.","t":"When they came to the valley, which was then planted with figs,\nwith sweet apples and those called stony,\nor rather pomegranates, it was green with flourishing vines.\nFrom it they bring fruits to give a sign of their faithfulness,\nand also from other things the rich field had produced.\nThey cut a huge cluster from the pliant vine\nand then, straining, carry it back on a pole across their shoulders.\nAnd when forty days had passed in anxious care,\nat last they report what they had seen,\nadding terror, as they say that the walls are raised\nto a vast height and the nations are immense, lifting\ntheir heads to heaven, as when a very great oak\nof aged trunk is joined to the starry heavens.\nThe people are broken by this and, stricken with bitter feeling,\ngroan sadly and wet their faces with a flood of tears,\nwhile they say: “O men ever worthy\nto be praised, whom no image of evil so great\nfrightened, and whom death laid in their accustomed land!\nWhom neither the sad soil scorched with hot sands,\nnor thirst long endured, nor the crumbs of manna —\nsweet indeed, but soaked in gall, because it does not strengthen the limbs —\nafflicted with heavier hunger, manna to which only quail\nis added, and which wastes the body with thin food.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.328 (CSEL 23:127lines 328–350–128; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-328)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.351":{"o":"at non in Pharia quondam regione manentes\ntam tristes torsere cibi, cum uerrere pisces\nludus erat totumque in mensis ponere Nilum\nuel mare uentosum uaria de plebe natantum\nexuere et laeta uentres laxare sagina.\nnos dites gregibus. cunctis nos pinguibus hortis\ninemptos pepones aluumque inflare solentes\ncucumeres auido mordaces carpsimus haustu.\nnos alia et caepe. nos illic sectile porrum\npauit et expletos somno marcente refouit.\nquin agite et finem iam duris ponite rebus.\nuertite signa citi Niloque has reddite turmas\nconspicuumque ducem cognata ex plebe create.\nqui nostrae anterius ponat momenta salutis.\nquam suae uel trepidi proceris. qui dicta secutus.\nut dicit. metuenda dei. deserta per arua\ndestituit miseros hostique obponit enormi,\nut mortis grauiora metu patiamur inertes,\ndum coniunx dilecta cadit. dum filia uirgo\nducitur et tumido seruit captiua tyranno.\"\nHis dictis grauiora parant; namque incita turba\nsaxa capit totoque insurgens corpore librat.\nsed dum praetrepidant. dum sese ad crimina firmant,\ndiscindunt habitus proceres pronique ruentes\nad terram fluxere metu cunctosque precantur.","t":"But when we lived once in the land of Egypt,\nno such sad foods tormented us, when to sweep up fish\nwas sport, and to set the whole Nile on our tables,\nor strip the windy sea of its varied swimming people\nand ease our bellies with glad fattening.\nWe, rich in flocks, we, in all the rich gardens,\nplucked unbought melons and the biting cucumbers\nthat swell the belly, with greedy mouths.\nGarlic and onions, and the cut leek there,\nfed us, and refreshed us, full, in drowsy sleep.\nCome then, and put an end at last to hardships;\nturn the standards quickly and give these companies back to the Nile,\nand appoint a conspicuous leader from the kindred people\nwho will put our safety before\nhis own, or before that of the trembling chief, who, following the words\nof God — to be feared, as he says — through desert fields\nhas abandoned us wretches and set us against an enormous enemy,\nso that we, helpless, suffer things heavier than the fear of death,\nwhile a beloved wife falls, while a virgin daughter\nis led away and serves a proud tyrant as a captive.”\nAfter these words they prepare worse things; for the roused crowd\ntakes stones and, rising with all their body, poise them.\nBut while they hesitate in fear and steel themselves for the crime,\nthe chiefs tear their clothes and, falling prone,\nsank to the ground in fear and begged them all","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.351 (CSEL 23:128lines 351–375–129; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-351)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.376":{"o":"ne stolida in dubiis mittant conuicia rebus\nin caelum sedemque dei, neue ardua credant\ndecretis promissa dei; cum deinde Chalebus,\nIesutis comitante fide, sic procubus orat:\n\"Tempore quo placuit terras temptare repostas\nhostilesque domos uisaque expromere uobis.\nomnibus e tribubus primi placuere tribuni.\nquorum nota fides nequaquam dissona posset\ndicere, uel ciues mendaci eludere fatu.\net nunc si parilis perstat reuerentia nostri\nnominis et nullis uentosa emittimus orsa.\ncredite conpertis; nam quae fiducia ciues\nfallere nos faciat, domini responsa sequentes\nuobiscum parilique modo per cuncta uadentes?\nquae quidam metuenda putant, dum uultibus albus\npallor inest sensusque labant formidine capti\nuana quidem. quia iussa dei nos maxima firmant\nnec uinci pelliue sinunt, licet alta gigantes\ncolla leuent densoque obponant milite turmas.\nnobis terra patet, post quam perditibus aruis\nfelicem lustrasse iuuat, quae flumine multo\nactis opima fluit et dulcis gurgite mellis.\nuos tantum ne corda deo disiungite sancto.","t":"not to hurl foolish reproaches, in uncertain matters,\nagainst heaven and the seat of God, nor to think the promises\nhard for God’s decrees; then Caleb,\nwith Joshua joining him in faith, prays thus, prostrate:\n“When it was decided to explore the distant lands\nand the enemy’s homes and set out to you what we saw,\nthe first tribunes of all the tribes were chosen,\nwhose known faithfulness could by no means speak discordantly\nor deceive the citizens with lying speech.\nAnd now, if the same reverence for our name remains\nand we utter no windy speeches,\nbelieve what has been found; for what confidence would make us\ndeceive our fellow citizens, when we follow the Lord’s answers\nwith you and go through all things in the same way?\nWhat some think fearful, while a white pallor\nis on their faces and their senses waver, seized by fear,\nis vain indeed; for God’s mighty commands make us firm\nand do not let us be defeated or driven out, though giants\nraise their high necks and set their companies against us with dense soldiery.\nThe land lies open to us, which, after the barren fields,\nit is a joy to have surveyed as happy, which flows rich\nwith a great river of milk and a flood of sweet honey.\nOnly do not separate your hearts from the holy God,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.376 (CSEL 23:129lines 376–398–130; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-376)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.399":{"o":"neu timidas cohibete manus; quia signa sequentes\nnumquam uicta dei famulans uictoria ditat.*\nHaec ubi dicta, dei confestim sedibus altis\nmaiestas ueneranda uenit populumque patresque\natque synagogam miro perfudit honore.\nHaec inter dominus tristes denuntiat iras\nextremamque luem, qua gens inmensa necetur.\nsqualentes inter saltus terramque relictam,\nexceptis tantum metuenda a peste duobus.\nquos socium robur parili firmauerat usu,\nuidentes nil posse dei confligere iussis.\nquamlibet. id uates orando auertere temptans\nmollibus adloquiis timida inter uerba rogaret,\nne stolida incassum mittentes uerba Chananni\nperstreperent nulla populum uirtute iuuari.\nqui foret optatus dominique ad praemia lectus:\nnec tamen eualuit metuenda inflectere dicta,\nquae firma sub lege uolant; nam uisere nulli\narua fuit licitum soli concessa fidei;\nnamque quaterdenis populus bellator in annis\noccidit et natis sublimia regna reliquit.\nHaec inter stolidis armata et incita curis,\nconsurgit legio summoque in uertice collis\nsigna locat praecepsque obliquum fertur in hostem.","t":"and do not hold back timid hands; for victory, as a servant,\nenriches those who follow God’s standards, never conquered.”\nWhen this was said, the venerable majesty of God\ncame at once from its lofty seat and flooded the people and the fathers\nand the congregation with wondrous honour.\nMeanwhile the Lord announces sad anger\nand an extreme plague, by which the immense nation is to be killed\namid barren glades and a land left behind,\nexcept only two from the fearful plague,\nwhom a shared strength had made firm by like conduct,\nseeing that nothing can contend with God’s commands.\nHowever much the prophet, trying to avert it by praying,\nasked with gentle speeches amid timid words,\nlest the Canaanites, hurling foolish words in vain,\nshould clamour that the people was helped by no power,\nthe people who were desired and chosen for the Lord’s rewards,\nyet he could not bend the fearful words\nthat fly under firm law; for no one\nwas allowed to see the fields granted only to faith;\nfor within forty years the warrior people\nfell and left the lofty realms to their sons.\nMeanwhile, armed and roused by foolish cares,\nthe legion rises, sets its standards on the very top of the hill,\nand is carried headlong against the enemy on the slope.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.399 (CSEL 23:130lines 399–422–131; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-399)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.423":{"o":"et quia pugnaces dominus non terruit alas,\nuincitur et fuso conuertit milite terga.\npraescius id uates castrorum in sede remansit,\nsacratam cohibens uallis tutantibus arcam.\nInterea e populo quidam sub lumine festo\ndum sarmenta legit, legis contemptor aeternae,\ncorripitur sanctaque dei per iussa necatur\nmissilibus saxis, uetitum ne serperet ausum.\nquin etiam quo saepe uiros mens cauta moneret\naeternos domini ad monitus conuertere mentes,\nfimbria conserto cunctis hyacinthina nodo\nnectitur et noto distinguit limite uestes.\nexim causa mali uetito consurgit ab actu:\nnamque Coras Leuita tribu pariterque Dathamus\natque Abirus, licitum cunctis offerre tonanti\nincensum cum ture pio dementibus ausis\ncredentes. tumida uates petiere querella.\nnec longum dilata nece; nam cardine rupto\nterra patens cunctos inferna ad tartara misit\ncum quibus extincti pariter sua funera cernunt\nbis centum, qui sacra deo non iussa ferebant,\nquinquies et deni cunctorum congrege turba,\net pecora et quidquid fuerat sub iure nocentum;\nac uelut in totos pariter nex una ueniret,\ndispersi trepidare metu ignemque supernum\nnequiquam fugere ac sese abscondere temptant.","t":"And because the Lord did not shield the fighting wings,\nit is defeated and, its soldiers routed, turns its back.\nForeknowing this, the prophet stayed in the camp,\nkeeping the sacred ark within protecting ramparts.\nMeanwhile a man of the people, on the festal day,\nwhile gathering sticks, a despiser of the eternal law,\nis seized and by God’s holy command is killed\nwith thrown stones, lest the forbidden daring spread.\nMoreover, so that a cautious mind might often warn men\nto turn their minds to the Lord’s eternal admonitions,\na hyacinth fringe with a knotted cord is fastened for all\nand marks their garments with a known border.\nThen a cause of evil arises from a forbidden act:\nfor Korah of the tribe of Levi, and with him Dathan\nand Abiram, believing with mad daring that anyone might\noffer incense with pious frankincense to the Thunderer,\nattacked the prophet with swollen complaint.\nNor was death long delayed; for, its hinge broken,\nthe earth opened and sent them all to infernal Tartarus,\nand with them, destroyed likewise, two hundred\nand fifty, who brought rites to God that were not commanded,\nsee their death, from the whole gathered crowd,\nand the cattle and whatever had belonged to the guilty;\nand, as though one death were coming on all alike,\nscattered, they tremble with fear and try in vain\nto flee the fire from above and hide themselves.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.423 (CSEL 23:131lines 423–448–132; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-423)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.449":{"o":"quin etiam reuoluta die feruere tumultu\nnon ueriti magna confestim clade premuntur.\natque eadem sub morte ruunt bis milia septem\nsexcentique uiri : et ni discrimina uates\ntanta uidens dominum blanda inter uota rogasset.\ngrandior infandum punisset poena reatum.\nVerum ubi post trepidos redierunt otia motus,\nauratas pateras, iuuenes quibus ante sinistri\nobtulerant insueta deo libamina caeli,\ndissipat et tenui sollerter lammina cunctas\ndeuouet ac domini Moyses altaribus indit;\nidcirco quia sacra fiunt, quaecumque feruntur\nad dominum celsaque dei ante ora locantur.\nnec minus ut uates inter discretio summos\natque tribus fieret, uirgam deposcit ab omni\nprincipe, bissenas donec iam summa repleret;\nsepositamque dehinc Aaronis nomine uates\nexhibet et domini media intra tecta relinquit.\ncumque reuertenti micuissent sidera sole,\nres haut nota prius, populo mirante coacto,\ncernitur et magnum domini patefecit honorem.\nenodis nam uirga prius truncataque ferro\nAaronis proceris nullo de fomite terrae\nfloruit atque nuces sicco iam stipite prompsit.","t":"Moreover, on the next day, those who were not afraid to seethe in tumult\nare at once overwhelmed by a great slaughter,\nand in the same death fall twice seven thousand\nand six hundred men; and unless the prophet, seeing\nsuch danger, had entreated the Lord with gentle vows,\na greater penalty would have punished the unspeakable guilt.\nBut when quiet returned after the fearful upheaval,\nthe gilded censers, with which the wicked young men had earlier\noffered to God unaccustomed offerings of heaven,\nMoses breaks up, and skilfully devotes them all as a thin sheet\nand sets it on the altars of the Lord;\nbecause whatever is brought to the Lord\nand placed before the lofty face of God becomes holy.\nMoreover, so that a distinction might be made between the highest priests\nand the tribes, the prophet asks for a rod from every\nchief, until the total reached twelve;\nand the prophet then shows one set apart with Aaron’s name\nand leaves it in the midst of the Lord’s dwelling.\nAnd when the stars had faded as the sun returned,\na thing not known before is seen by the gathered people,\nto their wonder, and revealed the great honour of the Lord.\nFor the rod of the chief Aaron, once knotless and cut off with iron,\nwith no nourishment from the earth\nflowered and put forth nuts on the dry stick.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.449 (CSEL 23:132lines 449–472–133; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-449)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.473":{"o":"additur ad legis monumenta et iussa sacratae,\nut uitula. cui flaua cutis per membra nitebit,\noccidat ante fores domini corpusque cremetur\nignibus, utque cinis conbusto e uiscere natus\ncorpora purificet foedo sordentia tactu,\nconspersus per membra uirum, cui gramen hysopi\niungitur. ut tenui diffundat uerbere rores\nflumineos mundaque infectos diluat unda.\nnam quicunque manu contingit corpora functa,\nuel iacet exanimum cuius sub tecta cadauer,\nsordibus afficitur templumque infuscat aeternum.\nuascula quin etiam patulis sordentia. rostris\ncuncta sunt, uulnusque dehinc quicumque cruentum\ncontingit ossaque uirum bustumue sepulti,\ntertia luce potest sese uel septima. purum\nreddere, si dominum tacito sub corde precatus\ndona ferat medici purgatus flumine rami.\nHaec inter Iudaea phalanx deserta per arua\ndum graditur, Cadessa uenit procerisque sororem\nextinctam tumulat multaque accenditur ira,\nquod deserta siti regio non promeret ullos\nfontibus e gelidis riuos; quodque arida cunctis\nora forent tostoque arderent corpora sole.\nid dominus meditans uati depromere uirgam\nimperat et gemino rupem contingere tactu.","t":"It is added to the records and commands of the sacred law\nthat a heifer, whose tawny hide shines over her limbs,\nshould be slain before the doors of the Lord and her body burned\nin the fire, and that the ash from the burnt flesh\nshould purify bodies soiled by foul touch,\nsprinkled on the limbs of men, with a sprig of hyssop\njoined to it, so that with a light stroke it may scatter\nriver water and wash the defiled with clean water.\nFor whoever touches dead bodies with his hand,\nor under whose roof a lifeless corpse lies,\nis stained with uncleanness and defiles the eternal temple.\nMoreover all vessels with open mouths are unclean,\nand whoever then touches a bloody wound,\nor the bones of men, or the tomb of one buried,\ncan on the third and seventh day make himself\npure, if, having prayed to the Lord in a silent heart,\nhe brings his gifts, purified by the stream from the healing branch.\nMeanwhile, while the Jewish host walks through desert fields,\nit comes to Kadesh and buries the chief’s sister,\nwho had died, and is inflamed with great anger,\nbecause the region, deserted through thirst, gave no streams\nfrom cool springs, and because the mouths of all\nwere dry and their bodies burned in the scorching sun.\nThe Lord, considering this, commands the prophet to bring out the rod\nand touch the rock with a double touch.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.473 (CSEL 23:133lines 473–497–134; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-473)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.498":{"o":"quam tamen incutiens dubio cum pectore Moyses\nobiurgat populum dicens: Heu! mente feroces\nsensibus et duri, numquidnam saxa madere\nulla queunt riuis uiuosque emittere fontes?\"\nhaec dum motus ait, lenta dat uerbera uirga.\n.......... rumpuntur cotibus amnes. —\nattamen omnipotens cunctantum pectora uatum\nincrepat obiurgans: \"Quoniam sententia uobis\nancipiti sub corde fuit meque omnia posse\nmens haut firma uidet paruumque inpertit honorem\nsublimis domini imperio, cui credere coram \"\nIudaeas acies decuit fidemque referre\nnil non posse deum: id propter, ducere plebem\nad sedes dudum sponsas terramque feracem\nhaut licitum uobis magnaque adsumere dona.\"\nInterea populus Edomum adiungitur aruis,\nper quae pacificas acies deducere Moyses\npercupiens placido regem sermone poposcit\npraetumida uirtute ferum pugnamque parantem.\nquem tamen euitans monti coniungitur Oro,\nin quo decursae post tempora plurima uitae\nconditur Aronus notaque insignia liquit\nfesta sacerdoti, celsis qui altaribus addit\nmaiorem cunctis Eleazaron, ut deus ingens\niusserat et placitis ministrum adlegerat aris.","t":"Yet Moses, striking it with a doubtful heart,\nrebukes the people, saying: “Alas, you fierce in mind\nand hard in sense! Can any rocks be wet\nwith streams and send forth living springs?”\nWhile, moved, he says this, he strikes with the pliant rod.\n… rivers burst from the rocks.\nYet the Almighty rebukes the hesitant hearts of the prophets,\nchiding: “Since your judgment was in a divided heart,\nand your mind, not firm, does not see that I can do all things\nand gives small honour to the command of the lofty Lord,\nwhom it befitted the Jewish ranks to believe openly\nand to bear witness that God can do anything: for this reason\nit is not permitted you to lead the people\nto the seats long promised and the fertile land\nand to take up the great gifts.”\nMeanwhile the people reach the fields of Edom,\nthrough which Moses, longing to lead his peaceful ranks,\nasked with calm speech the king, wild in his swollen courage\nand preparing for battle.\nAvoiding him, however, the people reach Mount Hor,\non which, after very long years of a life run out,\nAaron is buried and left his well-known festal insignia\nto the priest, who adds to the lofty altars\nEleazar, greater than all, as mighty God\nhad commanded and chosen him as minister for the altars that please him.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.498 (CSEL 23:134lines 498–522–135; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-498)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.51":{"o":"quam credit peccasse sibi. canamque farinam,\nhordea quam faciunt, sacratum promat ad altar.\nquam nec ture linat, nec pingui inroret oliuo.\npraeuidus hic uates undam de fonte capessat\nfictilibus labris, modico quam puluere tinguat\nquem capit e media pronus testudine templi.\nmox illam nudare caput palmisque tenere\nconpellet geminis memoris libamina sacri.\nutque bibat latices secum maledicta tenentes.\nconpellet senior. quae si criminis exsors,\ninlaesa cum mente manet uultuque sereno.\nat si sub tacitis celantur crimina fibris,\nturgebit subita mulier tentigine morbi,\nobscenumque femur putri cum carne liquescet.\ninsuper et plebis acuit maledicta iocantis.\ndum facili exprobat commissa piacula risu.\nHaec inter casto uitam si ducere ritu\nmente parat quisquam uotique implere reatum\nperuigili exoptat sensu, ne luxus in ipso\ncorporeus certo possit sub fine uigere:\nuina neget sibi nata libens et cuncta refutet\npocula, quae calidis in uinum uertere lymphis\naut melle aut pomis consueuit cura bibentum,\ncum liquidos puris renouant de fontibus haustus.\nhorreat hic uuas, acinum nec mordeat ullum.","t":"the woman he believes has sinned against him, and bring white flour,\nmade from barley, to the sacred altar,\nwhich he neither smears with incense nor moistens with rich oil.\nHere the foreseeing priest takes water from a spring\nin an earthen vessel and tinges it with a little dust\nthat he takes, bending down, from the middle of the temple floor.\nSoon he will make her bare her head and hold in both palms\nthe offering of the sacred memorial.\nAnd the elder will make her drink the water\nthat holds curses within it. If she is free of crime,\nshe remains unharmed in mind and serene in face.\nBut if crimes are hidden in her silent heart,\nthe woman will swell with the sudden distension of disease,\nand her shameful thigh will melt with rotting flesh.\nMoreover she provokes the curses of the jesting people,\nas they reproach her sins with easy laughter.\nMeanwhile, if anyone resolves to lead his life in a chaste rite\nand desires with watchful mind to fulfil the obligation of a vow,\nlest bodily luxury thrive in him within the fixed term,\nlet him gladly deny himself wine and refuse all\ndrinks that the care of drinkers is used to turning into wine\nwith warm water or with honey or fruits,\nwhen they renew liquid draughts from pure springs.\nLet him shudder at grapes and bite no grape,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.51 (CSEL 23:118lines 51–75; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-51)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.523":{"o":"illic multimoda fidentes pube Chananni\nterrorem inmodicum ualida cum clade dedere\nIudaeis, cum terga darent nudata per agros.\nsed tamen adsumunt animos dominoque fauente\nhostiles sternunt cuneos atque urbibus ignem\nsubiciunt ualidis inmensa et laude triumphant.\nSed quamuis fluerent optatis commoda rebus,\nnon tamen obliqui fremitus nec murmura desunt\nin uatem coniecta pium; dum quisque feroci\nuoce gemit multa terrarum dote refertam\nAegyptum post terga datam Nilumque feracem\nfrugum et securo semper cultore colorum.\nid deus omnipotens aequato examine plectens\nuipereas acies uiroso ex fomite prompsit:\nquae multos strauere uiros. dum tenuia quamquam\nuulnera letali distendunt corpora suco.\nAt populus lugubre gemens, dum procubus orat\nante pedes uatis et publica funera narrat.\nagnitione probri cunctorum in corde reposta\naccipit optatam domino saluante medellam.\nnamque probus princeps tumidum formare draconem\naere flauo iussus malo suspendit ab alto.\nut, quemcumque uago fixissent, dente cerastae.\nexueret letum pendentem uersus ad anguem.","t":"There the Canaanites, trusting in their numerous youth,\ngave immoderate terror with a heavy defeat\nto the Jews, as they turned their bare backs through the fields.\nBut yet they take heart and, with the Lord’s favour,\nlay low the enemy’s companies and set fire\nto the strong cities and triumph with immense praise.\nBut though benefits flowed with all they desired,\nsullen roars and murmurs were not lacking,\ncast against the pious prophet, while each groans with fierce\nvoice that Egypt, full of the rich dowry of its lands,\nhad been left behind, and the Nile, fertile in crops\nand with its ever-secure tiller.\nAlmighty God, punishing this with level scale,\nbrought forth ranks of vipers from a poisonous source,\nwhich laid many men low, since, though the wounds were slight,\nthey swell the bodies with deadly venom.\nBut the people, groaning mournfully, while they pray prostrate\nbefore the prophet’s feet and tell of the public deaths,\nwith the recognition of their disgrace laid up in the hearts of all,\nreceive the longed-for remedy, the Lord saving them.\nFor the upright chief, ordered to fashion a swollen serpent\nof yellow bronze, hung it from a high pole,\nso that whoever had been pierced by the wandering tooth of the horned snake\nmight escape death by turning toward the hanging serpent.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.523 (CSEL 23:135lines 523–546–136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-523)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.547":{"o":"Hinc populus Obetha uenit. Achina deinde\narua petit; Zaredina dehinc; mox transit ad Adar.\niam uiridi in campo, sedis ubi cultor amoenae\nAmorreus agit et opimo pascitur aruo.\nillic est puteus uitrea perlucidus unda.\nquem iuxta dominus sancto sermone locutus\nMoysetem iussit populum densare refertum.\nduceret ut riguos latices undamque nitentem.\nconsona tunc penitus diuina in cantica cunctis\nlingua fuit. domino dum laudes hoc canit hymno:\n\"Inmensus dominus fluenta misit\net totum populi remouit aestum.\npleno dum puteus patet profundo\net multum gelidis scatet fluentis:\nquem quondam ualidi fecere reges.\ngentes dum ualidas regunt habenis\net sceptris pauidos premunt clientes:\nusus ceu proprius pateret ipsis.\nexternis procul omnibus remotis.\nhic nostrae a domino datus saluti\nuiuis inriguos repleuit undis.\"\nHaec ubi sidereo dixere cantica regi\ncastra mouent. uariosque locos post terga relinquunt.\nSeonem ad regem decurso limite ducti.","t":"From there the people come to Oboth, then seek the fields\nof Iye-abarim, then Zered; soon they pass on to Arnon.\nNow in a green plain, where the Amorite lives\nas tiller of a pleasant seat and feeds on rich fields,\nthere is a well, clear with glassy water,\nnear which the Lord, speaking with holy speech,\ncommanded Moses to gather the crowded people,\nso that he might draw the watering streams and the shining water.\nThen the tongue of all was wholly in harmony in divine songs,\nas it sings praises to the Lord in this hymn:\n“The immeasurable Lord has sent streams\nand taken away all the heat of the people,\nwhile the well lies open in its full depth\nand gushes abundantly with cool streams;\nwhich once mighty kings made,\nwhile they ruled mighty nations with the reins\nand pressed their fearful dependants with sceptres,\nas though its use lay open to themselves alone,\nall strangers kept far away.\nThis well, given by the Lord for our salvation,\nhas filled the thirsty with living waters.”\nWhen they had sung these songs to the starry King,\nthey move the camp and leave various places behind,\nled to King Sihon when the border was crossed.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.547 (CSEL 23:136lines 547–570–137; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-547)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.571":{"o":"obpositas acies ualido certamine fundunt,\nquas ille, innocui deridens dicta prophetae,\nstruxerat. et uana nequiquam laude ferebat\ngentis Amorreae; duro quae subdita bello\ndecubuit ualidas iam dudum saepta per urbes.\nIazera quin etiam. simili uastata duello.\nsuscepit protrita iugum atque oppida multa\ndedidit. optatae deposcens otia pacis.\nHaec ubi sollicito dictauit fama Balaci.\nqui Moabitarum populos urbesque regebat.\nconcutitur grauiore metu Balamque prophetam\nambit honoratis precibus. ut tanta gerentem\nimpediat dictis populum cursumque refrenet\nbellantum penitus; quoniam. quae procubus oret,\naudiat omnipotens et tristia quaeque secundet.\nille negat fas esse sibi maledicta referre\nin plebem domino semper ductore uadentem\nad sedem regnumque suum. longeque uideri\niustius, ut meritis accommoda quaeque precetur.\nquandoquidem dominus nocturno in tempore uisus\ninhibeat reserare senem responsa Balaci.\ntalia sed postquam dimissus nuntius iniit,\net regem sua cura tenet, perquirit anhelus\nelectos proceres rursusque ad limina uatis\nmittit oratores dudum iam dicta rogantes\nnequiquam, quia dicta dei contraria pugnant.","t":"They rout in strong combat the opposing ranks,\nwhich Sihon, mocking the words of the innocent prophet,\nhad drawn up, and he boasted in vain with empty praise\nof the Amorite nation; which, subdued in hard war,\nlay prostrate, though long hedged in by strong cities.\nMoreover Jazer, laid waste by a like war,\ncrushed, accepted the yoke and surrendered many towns,\nasking for the leisure of the peace it longed for.\nWhen report told these things to anxious Balak,\nwho ruled the peoples and cities of the Moabites,\nhe is shaken with heavier fear and courts the prophet Balaam\nwith honouring prayers, that by his words he might hinder\nthe people doing such deeds and wholly curb\nthe course of the warriors, since whatever he prays prostrate\nthe Almighty hears and fulfils, however grim.\nHe says that it is not right for him to bring curses\non a people going with the Lord always as their leader\nto their seat and kingdom, and that it seems far\njuster to pray for what befits their merits,\nsince the Lord, seen in the night,\nforbids the old man to unlock answers for Balak.\nBut after the dismissed messenger brought back such things,\nand his care holds the king, breathless he seeks out\nchosen chiefs and sends envoys again to the prophet’s threshold,\nasking for what was already denied, in vain,\nbecause the words of God fight against it.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.571 (CSEL 23:137lines 571–596–138; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-571)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.597":{"o":"sed tamen emersus uates conscendit asellam\natque praecedentes conlatis passibus aequat.\necce uiae medio domini mox angelus offert\nstrinctam aciem contra pronamque obuersus et instans\ncornipedem terret, celeri quae concita saltu\nin partem conisa fugit campoque pererrat.\nquam dum praecipiti temnentem frena timore\ncircumagit uates ac pressis pugnat habenis,\ncalcibus et fodicat uirgaque euerberat acri,\npampineas inter uites iam tegmine lapso\nsemirutus paries cunctanti obiectus asellae\nprocursum inpediit; pedem quae ad saxa recussit\noblisitque senis sensuque adfecit acerbo.\nnuntius inde citus diuersa in parte resistit\ncalle perangusto, tenuis quo semita duxit,\ncircumitus nullos quacumque in parte relinquens.\nquadrupes hunc strincto uidit mucrone micantem\net multum pauefacta ruit. quam surgere iussam\nuerberat et multa uector uibice cohercet.\nilla ubi perdoluit, subito sermone locuta est,\ndum deus eloquium desueta in uerba relaxat:","t":"But yet the prophet sets out and mounts his she-ass\nand keeps pace with those going before him.\nSee, in the middle of the road the angel of the Lord soon holds out\na drawn blade against him, and, facing him and pressing on,\nterrifies the beast, which, roused with a swift leap,\nstriving to one side, flees and wanders over the plain.\nWhile the prophet turns her round as she scorns the reins\nin headlong fear and fights her with tight reins,\ndigs his heels in and beats her with the sharp rod,\namid leafy vines, their covering now fallen,\na half-ruined wall set in the hesitating ass’s way\nstopped her advance; she struck his foot against the stones\nand crushed the old man’s foot and caused him bitter pain.\nThen the messenger quickly stands in another place,\nin a very narrow path where a thin track led,\nleaving no way round on any side.\nThe four-footed beast saw him flashing with drawn sword\nand, in great terror, sinks down. Ordered to rise,\nshe is beaten by her rider and checked with many weals.\nWhen she felt great pain, she spoke with sudden speech,\nwhile God loosens her speech into unaccustomed words:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.597 (CSEL 23:138lines 597–617–139; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-597)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.618":{"o":"\"Quid feci meruiue tibi. quod uerbere multo\nlabentem conixus agis? num terga negaui\nsueta tibi? umquamue pauens mea pondera fugi,\npraecipitemue dedi, prono dum cernuus armo\nlaberis et prona fusus ceruice rotaris?*\ntalia dicenti commotus dicta sacerdos\ntristia saepe refert multaque exaestuat ira,\ndumque fremens saeuit, claro mox angelus ore\nemicat et sancta conpellat uoce prophetam:\n\"Inmeritam pecudem trino iam uerbere pulsas,\nquae me prona fugit terraeque inlisa recumbit\nidcirco, quoniam non est tua semita summo\ngrata deo longeque uagis nunc gressibus erras.\net nisi cornipedem diuersa in parte uadentem\nterror abegisset. duro te uulnere ferri\nstrauerat ista manus crudumque exegerat ensem,\nut te deposito mihimet possessa fuisset.\"\ndesilit hic uates sanctumque inflexus adorat\ndelictumque dolens reditum uitamque precatur.\ndimissus celerat suscepta et munia conplet,\nuerba locuturus domini dictanda relatu.\niamque uiam uincens Moabae adiungitur urbi\nconspicuumque uidet condenso in milite regem\nauxiliumque sibi timida cum uoce rogantem\ninspicit et domino septenis supplicat aris;","t":"“What have I done or deserved of you, that with many blows\nyou drive me on, straining as I fall? Have I refused\nmy back, so used to you? Or have I ever, in fear, fled my burdens,\nor thrown you headlong, while you, head down over my bent shoulder,\nslipped and were rolled, thrown over my bent neck?”\nAs she speaks thus, the priest, moved, often returns\nharsh words and boils with great anger;\nand while, roaring, he rages, soon the angel shines forth\nwith bright face and addresses the prophet with holy voice:\n“You beat the undeserving beast now with a third blow,\nwho, bowing low, flees me and lies down, struck to the earth,\nbecause your path is not pleasing to the highest God\nand you now wander far with straying steps.\nAnd unless terror had turned the beast aside\nin another direction, this hand would have laid you low\nwith a hard wound of iron and driven home the cruel sword,\nso that, with you struck down, she would have been spared by me.”\nHere the prophet leaps down and, bowing, worships the holy one,\nand, grieving for his offence, asks to return and for his life.\nDismissed, he hastens and fulfils the task he had undertaken,\nto speak the words of the Lord that were to be given him.\nAnd now, completing the road, he reaches the city of Moab\nand sees the conspicuous king amid dense soldiery,\nsees him asking help for himself with timid voice,\nand makes supplication to the Lord on seven altars;","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.618 (CSEL 23:139lines 618–642–140; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-618)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.643":{"o":"conspicuosque simul uitulos lectasque bidentes\ninmolat et cuncta conmittit munera regi\niudiciumque dei tacita sub nocte meretur.\nquod deinde euoluens his regem terruit orsis:\n\"Montibus e patriis Moabo a principe iussus.\nunde rubet uentura dies lumenque serenum,\nquaque iacet tellus geminis inclusa fluentis\nTigris et Euphratis, ut dictis saeuus acerbis\nexoptem non digna uiris, quos sanctus ab alto\nprotegit omnipotens terraeque indicit opimae.\nhos igitur de colle procul mox uisere ius est\noptatosque mihi iamiam dinoscere uultus\nfelicis populi. quem solum magna secuntur\ndona dei. gentesque procul seiunctus et exsors\npercipit optatas placido de numine sedes.\nquisnam igitur prisci quaesiuit clara Iacobi\npignora uel plebem numeris percurrere quiuit?\noccidat hos inter potius mea uita relinquens\ncorpoream sedem iustisque adiuncta quiescat\nprogeniesque mea tali cum germine uiuat!\"\nHaec ubi disseruit sensu torpente Balacus\nconcidit et uatem diuersa et dissona fantem\nincrepitat. tumidum iussus conscendere collem.\nut partem exiguam populi subiecta per arua\ncerneret. haec iterum digestis uocibus addit:","t":"and at once he sacrifices conspicuous calves and chosen sheep\nand commits all the gifts to the king,\nand receives the judgment of God in the silent night.\nThen, unfolding it, he terrified the king with these words:\n“I was summoned by Moab’s prince from my native mountains,\nwhere the coming day and the serene light grow red,\nwhere the land lies enclosed by the twin streams\nof Tigris and Euphrates, that, savage with bitter words,\nI should wish unworthy things on men whom the holy\nAlmighty protects from on high and assigns to a rich land.\nIt is right, then, to see them soon from the hill far off\nand now to make out the faces I long to see\nof the happy people, whom alone the great gifts of God\nfollow, and who, set apart from the nations and sharing nothing with them,\nreceive the seats they long for from a gracious divinity.\nWho, then, has numbered the famous offspring of ancient Jacob,\nor could run through the people in numbers?\nRather let my life die among these, leaving\nits bodily seat, and rest joined to the righteous,\nand may my offspring live with such a progeny!”\nWhen he had said this, Balak, his senses numbed,\ncollapsed, and rebukes the prophet for speaking contrary\nand discordant words; he is told to climb a swollen hill\nto see a small part of the people over the fields below.\nAgain Balaam adds these things in ordered words:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.643 (CSEL 23:140lines 643–667; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-643)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.668":{"o":"\"Confestim mea dicta tuas demitte per aures.\nMoabi rector populi, testisque uenito!\ndissimilis hominum deus est nec uera locutus\ninrita uerba facit quidquamue inpune minatur.\nqui me magna monet subnixus dona precari.\nut facio; plebemque dei per uota sacrabo.\nquam dolor effugiet totus operumque labores.\nparticipi iunctoque deo, qui dura repellit\nomnia. ditificae condonans munera pacis.\nhuius tu procerem sacro de sidere, rector\ncaelorum terraeque, uide: nam dignus honore est\nille tuo, qui pressa diu ceruice gementem\neduxit populum regno Pharaonis acerbi,\nsignifer et nulli uirtutum laude secundus\nunica regna fouet nulloque in augure fidit.\ncarmina nulla canit nec quidquam captat inane.\ntempore sub certo felicia dicta superni\naccipiet secura dei perfectaque uirtus\nIebusaea fiet domini de robore summi.\nemicat hic populus, ueluti cum sola per arua\ncrinigera ceruice leo sese arduus infert,\nnon ante adsuetae repetens cubilia siluae.\nquam crassa toruus sanie praedaque refertus\nterruerit uirides minaci ex murmure montes.\"","t":"“Send my words at once through your ears,\nruler of the people of Moab, and come as a witness!\nGod is not like men, and when he has spoken truth\nhe does not make his words void or threaten anything without effect.\nHe warns me, as I rely on him, to pray for great gifts,\nas I do; and I will consecrate God’s people with vows,\nwhich all pain and toil of labour will escape,\nwith God as its partner joined to it, who repels\nall hardships, granting the gifts of enriching peace.\nLook, Ruler of heaven and earth, from your holy star\non this people’s chief: for he is worthy of your honour,\nwho led out the people groaning with neck long pressed\nfrom the realm of bitter Pharaoh,\na standard-bearer, second to none in praise of virtues;\nhe cherishes a single kingdom and trusts in no augur,\nchants no spells and grasps at nothing vain.\nAt a fixed time he will receive, secure, the happy words\nof God above, and perfected power\nwill be accomplished from the strength of the highest Lord.\nThis people springs forth as when through lonely fields\nthe lion with maned neck advances on high,\nnot returning to the lairs of his accustomed wood\nuntil, grim, full of thick gore and prey,\nhe has terrified the green mountains with his threatening roar.”","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.668 (CSEL 23:140lines 668–691–141; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-668)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.692":{"o":"Haec etiam renuit multa rex saucius ira\ntertia dicta rogans diuerso in colle prophetam;\nuertice de cuius populum per castra locatum\nut uidit, docili deprompsit pectore uerba:\n\"Sublimes magnaeque domus, quascumque Iacobi\nsemen habet, paribusque attollunt culmina tectis,\nut cedrus siluaque nitens. quae frondis honorem\nuentilat et querulis modulatur sibila ramis.\nuel quae laeta uiret sub ripis fluminis acta.\nhas dominus struxit celsaque erexit ad astra.\nsemine de cuius quondam nascetur in omnes\niura ferens populos regnoque insignis aeterno.\nquem deus e Pharia clemens arcessit Aegypto\nconspicuum nullique parem socioque carentem.\ndiriget hic gentes diuersa in parte rebelles.\nplurima letali contorquens spicula dextra.\nadclinis cum deinde cubat similisque leoni.\nse coram somno lapso explicat, inde soporem\ndimouet, ad uigiles confestim redditus actus.\net quis hunc tactu faciet consistere rursum?\nqui tua sanctifico laudat praeconia fatu.\nfelix ille fiet; at qui contraria dicit.\nis male dicta sibi uentoso ex ore facessit.\nhaec sunt quae nostra dominus te uoce moneri\nimperat, eloquio quod fas infringere nulli est\nnec mutare uiro quidquamue adiungere praeter.","t":"The king, wounded with great anger, refused this too,\nasking the prophet for a third utterance on a different hill;\nfrom its summit, when he saw the people encamped,\nhe brought forth words from a teachable breast:\n“Lofty and great are the houses that the seed of Jacob\nhas, and they raise their roofs with buildings alike,\nlike the cedar and the shining wood that fans\nthe glory of its leaves and plays whistling tunes on plaintive branches,\nor the tree that flourishes gladly, planted on the banks of a river.\nThese the Lord built and raised to the lofty stars.\nFrom their seed one day will be born one\nwho brings laws to all peoples, notable for an eternal kingdom,\nwhom God, merciful, calls out of Egypt,\nconspicuous, equal to none and without peer.\nHe will rule the nations rebellious in various lands,\nhurling very many darts with his deadly right hand.\nWhen he then lies down, reclining like a lion,\nhe stretches himself out, sleep slipping away, then\nshakes off his slumber, at once restored to waking deeds.\nAnd who will make him rise again by touching him?\nWhoever praises your glories with holy utterance\nwill be blessed; but whoever speaks against you\nbrings curses on himself from his windy mouth.\nThese are the things the Lord commands you to be warned of by my voice,\nwhich no one may break by eloquence,\nnor may any man change or add anything besides.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.692 (CSEL 23:141lines 692–717–142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-692)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.718":{"o":"quamlibet argenti magnum des ferre talentum\natque tuos census inmensi pondus et auri:\nmunera nil prosunt; fixum quod dicitur hoc est.\"\nHis actis sua tecta petit regemque relinquit\nattonitum duraque inmensum dicta gementem.\nat manus interea bellis Iudaea secundis\nluxuriat sanctasque putat quas uicerat aras:\nidolaque inlicito celebrat gentilia cultu\nBeseli deuota prius mutoque Phegoro.\nhinc ingens mox ira dei consurgit et exim\npatentem ad campum proceres procedere mandat.\nconuersusque iubet redeuntis lumina solis\ncernere et attentos factum noxale piare.\nid uates festinus agit ferrumque renudat\ninnocuos sontesque uago mucrone secutus.\nHaec inter quidam fraterna obprobria prodens,\nquod sibi non licitum Madia ex gente parasset\nconubium. coram cunctos uatemque praesentat\nZambrium Chasbumque pari sub fraude nocentes.\nquos Phinea citus arrepta euerberat hasta\ninmensamque plagam per iusta piacula sedat,\nquae bis dena uirum consumpsit milia leto\natque tria. domini dum telum currit in omnes.\nhoc facinus propter sacrata altaria uates\naccipit et domini sublimem sumpsit honorem.","t":"though you give a great talent of silver to carry\nand all your wealth and a weight of immense gold:\ngifts avail nothing; what is spoken is fixed.”\nThese things done, he goes home and leaves the king\nastonished and groaning greatly at the hard words.\nBut meanwhile the Jewish band, after successful wars,\nruns riot and thinks the altars it had conquered holy,\nand celebrates gentile idols with unlawful worship,\ndevoted to Baal and to dumb Peor.\nHence soon the great anger of God rises, and then\nhe commands the chiefs to go out to an open plain\nand, turned, orders them to face the light of the returning sun\nand atone attentively for the guilty deed.\nThe prophet does this in haste and bares the sword,\npursuing innocent and guilty with roving blade.\nMeanwhile a man, betraying the shame of his kin,\nbecause he had made for himself an unlawful marriage\nfrom the Midianite race, displays before all and before the prophet\nZimri and Cozbi, guilty in the same sin.\nPhinehas quickly seizes a spear and strikes them\nand stays the immense plague by just atonement,\nwhich consumed in death twice ten thousand men\nand three, while the Lord’s weapon runs against all.\nFor this deed the priest receives the sacred altars\nand took up the lofty honour of the Lord.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.718 (CSEL 23:142lines 718–742–143; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-718)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.743":{"o":"Interea generata nouo de germine pubes\nadlegitur numerisque dehinc subducta notatur.\nprimaeuo quae flore uirens iam germine molli\nuestibat uultus uicenos laeta per annos.\nquae deinde summa sexcenta ad milia uenit\natque bis octona. tercentum insuper auctis.\nhaec meruit sedes domino donante beatas;\nilicet omnipotens obliquum uertere in hostem\nsigna iubet uati coeptoque insistere bello.\nad quos bis senis hominum cum milibus itur.\nquo se cuncta tribus miserat. dum milia quaeque\nsingula de propriis numerant pugnacia turmis.\nPhineus haec ductor agit. dum uascula sancta\nterrificasque tubas consueta in proelia portat;\natque alacris lecto confestim milite caedit\nMoabas acies regesque interficit omnes:\nfusorum dum terga premit uatemque Balamum\nenecat et domita praedam de gente reportat.\nsed quia femineas acies post bella trahebat\nagmine captiuo, proceris per iussa monetur\nuirginibus tantum meritam non demere uitam,\ncorporeasque uirum maculas purgare fluentis.\nnec minus et praedam populum partitur in omnem.\nLeuitisque dedit merito de munere partem.\nquos domini in templo semper pia cura tenebat.","t":"Meanwhile the youth born of the new stock\nis enrolled and then, counted, is entered by numbers,\nwhich, flourishing in its first flower, already with soft down\nclothing its cheeks, was glad in its twenty years.\nIts total then came to six hundred thousand\nand twice eight, with three hundred more added.\nThis deserved blessed seats by the Lord’s gift.\nAt once the Almighty commands the prophet to turn\nthe standards against the hostile enemy and press on with the war begun.\nAgainst them they go with twice six thousand men,\nto which each tribe had sent its own, while each counts\nits single thousand of fighters from its own companies.\nPhinehas leads this as commander, while he carries the holy vessels\nand the terrifying trumpets into the accustomed battles;\nand eagerly, with chosen soldiers, he at once cuts down\nthe Moabite ranks and kills all the kings,\nwhile he presses on the backs of the routed and kills\nthe prophet Balaam and brings back plunder from the conquered nation.\nBut because after the wars he was dragging the women\nin a captive column, by the chief’s command he is told\nto spare their life only to the virgins, as they deserved,\nand to cleanse the bodily stains of the men with water.\nHe also divides the plunder among all the people\nand gave the Levites a part as a deserved gift,\nwhom pious care always kept in the Lord’s temple.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.743 (CSEL 23:143lines 743–767–144; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-743)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.76":{"o":"qui uini uel rore madet, uel solibus aret\nin passum crispo concretus margine rimae;\nquin etiam laticem mordacis uitet aceti.\nsobria mobilibus delibans pocula riuis;\nconcretamque gerat toto cum tempore barbam,\nqui uoto perscriptus erit; crinemque fluentem\nintonsus conseruet apex; lustrare sepulchra\nnesciat et patrum tumulos bustumque sororis,\nut sanctus persistat honor. si forte sub isdem\nconpositus tectis aliquis laxauerit artus,\nmorte obita, infectum ueluti sordescere coget.\nis igitur ueniam curis mordacibus oret,\ntondeat et crinem squalenti in uertice pastum;\net cum clara dies septeno eluxerit ortu,\nturtures aut simili candentes pluma columbas\nofferat, ut uitium uatis per uerba leuetur\natque precem; iactura tamen sit temporis eius,\nquo prius abstemius fuerat, rursusque capessat\nprincipia optatis iterum currentia uotis,\nquaesitam ut meritis ualeat contingere metam.\nomnibus his gestis, postquam sua praemia conpos\ncerta tenet, similes albentis uelleris agnos\nofferat, expliciti bidentes cursibus anni;\nunus ut occumbat quaesitae ad praemia mercis\npeccatumque leuet; nitidi iam corporis alter\natque salutiferos aries decumbat ad actus.","t":"whether it is moist with the dew of wine or dries in the sun\ninto a raisin, shrunken with wrinkled, cracked edge;\nmoreover let him avoid the liquid of biting vinegar,\nsipping sober cups from running streams;\nand let him wear a grown beard the whole time\nwho is enrolled by the vow, and let his unshorn crown\nkeep its flowing hair; let him not visit tombs,\nthe graves of his fathers or his sister’s pyre,\nso that his holy honour may remain. If perhaps someone\nunder the same roof has loosed his limbs\nin death, it will make him unclean as if infected.\nLet him therefore pray for pardon with biting cares\nand cut the hair grown on his squalid head;\nand when the bright day has shone at its seventh rising,\nlet him offer turtledoves or doves white with like plumage,\nso that the fault may be lightened by the priest’s words\nand prayer; yet let the time be lost\nin which he had abstained before, and let him take up again\na beginning, running anew with the vows he desires,\nso that he may reach the goal sought by his merits.\nAll this done, when, having gained it, he holds\nhis sure rewards, let him offer like lambs of white fleece,\nyearlings, a year’s course complete,\nso that one may fall for the reward sought\nand lighten sin; the other, now of clean body,\nand a ram, lie down for the acts that bring salvation.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.76 (CSEL 23:118lines 76–101–119; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-76)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4.768":{"o":"primitiaeque deo nec non redduntur aeterno.\nomnibus ex rebus domita de gente relatis.\nHis actis Rubena tribus mediaque Manasses\natque Gada sedes laetae Galaditis orant.\npecudibus facilis tellus: nam gramine multo\nherbida Iordani fluuio coniuncta uirebat.\nquos licet intrepido ductor sermone negarit.\ndum mutare putat futura ob proelia mentes,\nconcedit praestatque tamen, si milite toto\narma gerant sociasque iuuent in bella cohortes.","t":"and first fruits too are given back to the eternal God\nfrom all the things brought back from the conquered nation.\nThese things done, the tribe of Reuben and half Manasseh\nand Gad ask for the happy seats of Gilead,\na land easy for cattle; for, joined to the river Jordan,\nit was green and grassy with abundant pasture.\nThough the leader refused them with fearless speech,\nthinking they were changing their minds to avoid battles to come,\nhe grants it nevertheless and provides it, if with their whole army\nthey bear arms and help the allied cohorts in war.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 4.768 (CSEL 23:144lines 768–777–145; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/4-768)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5.1":{"o":"Hactenus informis heremi uexatus harenis\nIordanem ad fluuium populus promouerat arma;\nqui uirides inter saltus dum lubricus errat.\neximiam Hiericho fluctu labente reliquit\net sequitur pontoque dehinc miscetur aperto.\nillic sanctificus uates, dum funera cernit\naduentare sibi summamque instare dierum.\nquae mundo perscripta fuit: dum degitur istic,\ncollectum in turmas populum numerosque frequentes\ncongregat et tali uerborum munere ditat:\n\"Si placet hostiles penitus prosternere gentes\net placidam pacem uentura in saecla tenere.\nformidate deum totoque in pectora sensu\ncondite, ut inlaeso semper sit iunctus amore;\nqui uos oppressa dudum ceruice maerentes\nsustulit e uinclis et carcere soluit Aegypti;\nqui nebulas inter uosmet hostemque locauit\ninstantem trepidis nudataque terga prementem;\nqui dedit et nubem securi ad signa diei,\net piceam claro detersit lumine noctem:\nut uos ignoto terrarum in tramite positos\nfirmarent elementa dei, mutantia sese,\nquo nox fusca uenit, quo candent sidera cursu;\nille et alterno solitum procurrere motu\noceanum semperque uagum, quo flamina uenti\nindeprensa ferunt, sicca nudauit harena.","t":"So far, harassed by the sands of the formless wilderness,\nthe people had advanced their arms to the river Jordan,\nwhich, gliding slippery among green glades,\nleft outstanding Jericho with its flowing stream\nand follows on, and then is mingled with the open sea.\nThere the holy prophet, while he sees death\ncoming to him and the end of his days at hand,\nwhich had been written for the world, while he lives there\ngathers the people assembled in companies and crowded numbers\nand enriches them with such a gift of words:\n“If you wish to lay the hostile nations wholly low\nand hold calm peace for ages to come,\nfear God and store him in your hearts with all your mind,\nso that he may always be joined to you in unharmed love;\nhe who, when you mourned long with oppressed neck,\nlifted you from your chains and freed you from the prison of Egypt;\nwho set himself in the clouds between you and the enemy\npressing on you in your fear and on your bared backs;\nwho also gave a cloud as a sign of secure day\nand wiped away pitch-black night with clear light,\nso that the elements of God, changing themselves,\nmight strengthen you, set on an unknown path through the lands,\nby which course the dark night comes and the stars shine;\nhe also laid bare with dry sand the ocean,\nwont to run forward with alternating motion and ever wandering,\nwhere the blasts of the wind carry it uncaught,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 5.1 (CSEL 23:lines 1–26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5-1)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5.103":{"o":"nec tibi duplicibus carpatur messis aristis.\ngentiles uitate uiros; et quidquid abhorret\nmoribus aut cultu, longe lex sancta repellit.\ninmundas inhibite lupas, ne praemia noctis\nuenditae ad aeternam domini sacraria portent.\nfugacem ne reddat ero quicumque tenebit,\nne ferus adficiat duro sub uerbere captum.\nmessem nemo legat alieno in rure creatam;\nnec uinum pressare uelit, quod protulit uua\nuicini de parte sui; praecerpere sane\nracemos spicasque licet, non demere totum.\nconiunx pulsa domo alio si forte marito\nnupserit, amisso si post uiduetur eodem.\nne redeat spreti repetens consortia lecti.\nnemo nouam nuptam infecto eliminet anno.\nnec mola uendatur. gemino quae concaua saxo\nin goerum sinuata uolat frumentaque frangit.\nalter ob alterius ne pendat crimina. poenam.\nille quaterdena susceptet uerbera tergo,\nqui stolido sermone ferox conuicia iactat.\nora triturantis fuerint ne uincta iuuenci.\npignore non genito si fors decesserit ille.\ncui frater adstabit. dimissam ducat ad aedes,\nqui superest. natosque creet. ne semine nullo\nsit uacuata domus gentemque infuscet inanem;","t":"nor let your harvest be reaped with double ears.\nAvoid gentile men; and whatever is abhorrent\nin morals or worship, the holy law drives far away.\nKeep out unclean prostitutes, lest they bring the wages of the night\nthey sold to the eternal sanctuary of the Lord.\nWhoever shelters a fugitive slave, let him not return him to his master,\nlest the fierce master afflict the captive under a harsh lash.\nLet no one gather a harvest grown in another’s field,\nnor wish to press wine that the grape produced\nfrom his neighbour’s part; it is allowed, of course, to pluck\nclusters and ears, but not to take away the whole.\nIf a wife, driven from home, perhaps marries\nanother husband, if afterwards she is widowed by his death,\nlet her not return seeking the partnership of the bed that scorned her.\nLet no one send away a new bride before the year is out.\nNor let a mill be sold, which, hollowed in twin stones,\nflies round in a circle and breaks the grain.\nLet one not pay the penalty for another’s crimes.\nLet him receive forty lashes on his back\nwho fiercely hurls insults in foolish speech.\nLet not the mouth of the bullock that threshes be bound.\nIf perhaps a man has died with no child begotten,\nand a brother survives him, let the survivor take the widow\nto his house and beget children, lest the house be emptied\nof all seed and darken the name of the family, now empty;","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 5.103 (CSEL 23:149lines 103–127–150; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5-103)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5.128":{"o":"at si uir renuit, causam mox femina dicat\nad proceres legemque citet, quae cogit inertes.\niurgia se quotiens in rixam perfida uertunt\nfrendentesque uiros alterna in iurgia pulsant,\ninserat his mediam sese ne femina, neue\ninguina corripiat alieni obscena mariti.\nHaec quisquis deuotus agit. non tangitur ulla\npeste mali, nec bella timet morbosque calentes,\nnec sterilem sentit consumptis mensibus annum,\nsed placidus toto laetatur tempore uitae,\ndiuitias donante deo. qui crimina mundi\ndespectat mitis iraeque in tempore punit.\"\nTalibus orabat uates cunctosque monebat\nLeuitas, quos cura manet uenerabilis aulae\nsacrorumque dei. ut legis iussa perennis\nomnibus adsidue legerent; quo promptior esset\nsollicitudo dei cunctorum in corde uirorum;\nutque etiam tabulas gemina de caute politas.\nbis quina quae iussa tenent metuenda per orbem,\nsanctificae adseruent clausas penetralibus arcae.\nHis actis prodire iubet Nauete creatum\niudicioque dei plebis dat iura regendae,\nutque libens Iudaea manus subuerteret aras\nmentitosque deos, hymno dat uerba melodo.","t":"but if the man refuses, let the woman soon plead her cause\nbefore the chiefs and invoke the law that compels the reluctant.\nWhenever faithless quarrels turn into a brawl\nand drive gnashing men into strife with one another,\nlet no woman put herself between them,\nnor seize the private parts of another’s husband.\nWhoever devoutly does these things is touched by no\nplague of evil, nor fears wars and burning diseases,\nnor feels a barren year when the months are spent,\nbut, calm, rejoices all the time of his life,\nGod granting riches, who looks gently on the crimes\nof the world and punishes them in the time of anger.”\nWith such words the prophet prayed and warned all\nthe Levites, whom the care of the venerable hall\nand of God’s rites awaits, to read the commands\nof the everlasting law constantly to all, so that\nthe fear of God might be readier in the hearts of all men,\nand also to keep the tablets polished from twin stone,\nwhich hold twice five commands to be feared throughout the world,\nshut in the inner chamber of the holy ark.\nThese things done, he bids the son of Nun come forward\nand by God’s judgment gives him the right to rule the people;\nand so that the Jewish band might gladly overthrow the altars\nand the lying gods, he gives them words in a melodious hymn.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 5.128 (CSEL 23:150lines 128–151–151; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5-128)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5.152":{"o":"Auditum tribuat deumque laudet\ncaelum quodque supra praetexit astra;\net tellus tumido diuisa ponto\naures conmodet et sonos receptet.\nmentis nuntia quos ait loquella:\nut sueuit pluuios potare rores,\naestus cum rapidi calente flamma\nmessis puluereo tabescit aruo;\nrident gramina parturitque mundus\net multum patulis diuisa rimis\nnimbos frugiferos hiulca sorbet.\nnomen nam domini mei poposci.\ncuius gloriae conuenit honores\net laudes meritos referre seruos.\ncuius eloquiis uerum cohaeret,\nquae semper ualida uigent iuuenta.\nrectum iudicium uiaeque iustae\nnullis flexibus inplicant uiantes:\niniquum nihil est nihilque prauum.\nbeatae dominus fidelitatis\nnon reddit meritis pares reatus.\nquamuis progenies iniqua pactis\npernix supplicium sibi laboret.\nheu plebs tristificae dicanda morti.","t":"Let heaven grant a hearing and praise God,\nand what spreads above the stars;\nand let the earth, divided by the swelling sea,\nlend its ears and receive the sounds\nthat speech, messenger of the mind, utters:\nas it is wont to drink the rainy dews\nwhen, in the hot flame of the swift heat,\nthe harvest wastes away in the dusty field;\nthe grasses smile and the world gives birth,\nand, gaping, divided by many open cracks,\nit drinks in the fruitful clouds.\nFor I have called upon the name of my Lord,\nto whose glory it befits deserving servants\nto render honours and praises.\nTo his words truth clings,\nwhich ever flourish in strong youth.\nRight judgment and just ways\nentangle the traveller in no windings;\nnothing is unjust and nothing crooked.\nThe Lord of blessed faithfulness\ndoes not repay guilt in equal measure,\nthough a generation, wicked in its covenants,\nswiftly labours for its own punishment.\nAlas, a people to be given over to grief-bringing death!","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 5.152 (CSEL 23:151lines 152–175–152; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5-152)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5.176":{"o":"haec reddis domino deoque nostro,\nilli. qui genitor mauult uocari.\nseruis dum tribuit nomen natorum:\ncunctos numine cum regat perenni,\nac possit subito delere leto?\nhic te constituit. creauit ille.\nqui nunc obtinet et tenebit olim.\nmemento potius aeui perennis.\net quae post obitum funusque uiuant;\nannos quos series futura sumat\net quae sint iterum creanda, quaere.\naut si mens hebetat. patrem precare.\nqui te continuo totum docebit:\nuel de presbyteris unum rogato:\nnubem discutiet dabitque lucem.\ncum semper dominus in astra celsus\ndiuisos populos dedisset orbi.\nprimus quos genitor creans Adamus\nterrarum trepido dedit labori:\nuerbum iusserat ut dei perennis.\nfinem gentibus indiditque summam.\nqualem sidereae tenent cohortes.\ncohaesit domino plebes Iacobi.\ncuius cretio conrogatur ipsi:","t":"Is this how you repay the Lord our God,\nhim who prefers to be called Father\nwhile he gives his servants the name of sons,\nthough he rules all with everlasting divinity\nand could destroy them with sudden death?\nHe established you, he created you,\nhe who holds now and will hold hereafter.\nRemember rather the everlasting age\nand what lives after death and burial;\nask what years the series to come will take\nand what is to be created anew.\nOr if your mind grows dull, ask your father,\nwho will teach you everything at once;\nor ask one of the presbyters:\nhe will dispel the cloud and give light.\nWhen the Lord, ever lofty among the stars,\nhad given the divided peoples to the world,\nwhom the first father Adam begot\nand gave to the anxious labour of the lands,\nas the word of the everlasting God had commanded,\nhe set a limit and number for the nations\nsuch as the starry hosts hold.\nThe people of Jacob clung to the Lord,\nwhose inheritance is claimed for himself:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 5.176 (CSEL 23:152lines 176–199–153; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5-176)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5.200":{"o":"heres nam domini deique uiuit\nsola sufficiens sibique firma:\nqua tellus iacet abnegata tectis\net solis calidis anhela flammis\nnullis perpetuum rigatur undis.\nistic eliciens deus nocentes\nadfecit merita subinde plaga.\net mox sanctificae dedit medellae.\nsubdens dexterae. ceu laborat ales\npullos tegmine sub fouere pinnis.\nlumen ut medium solemus ipsi.\nper quod cernimus. abditum tenere.\nne sit fors aliqua molesta plagae.\nsolus quos dominus ademit hosti,\nqui caelum statuit fecitque terras,\nipsis multimodum cibum parauit,\nquem tellus parit inrigata nimbis;\nmellis et latices dedere saxa,\net pingui pariter fluente oliuo.\nlac uictum pecudum dedere mammae;\ntellus triticeas fecunda messes\net uinum madidis creauit uuis.\ncuius laticibus repleta pubes\ngestit ebria denegare numen,\ncuius muneribus ditata regnat!","t":"for the inheritance of the Lord God lives\nalone sufficient and firm in itself,\nwhere the land lies denied to houses\nand, panting in the hot flames of the sun,\nis watered by no lasting waters.\nThere God, drawing out the guilty,\nstruck them now and again with the blow they deserved,\nand soon gave them holy remedies,\nputting them under his right hand, as a bird labours\nto cherish its chicks under the cover of its wings;\nas we ourselves are used to keeping hidden\nthe central light through which we see,\nlest some chance blow harm it.\nThose whom the Lord alone took from the enemy,\nhe who set up the heavens and made the lands,\nfor them he prepared manifold food\nthat the land, watered by clouds, brings forth;\nand the rocks gave streams of honey,\nand likewise rich flowing olive oil.\nThe udders of cattle gave milk for food;\nthe fertile land created wheaten harvests\nand wine from moist grapes.\nFilled with its streams, the youth\nexults, drunk, to deny the divinity\nby whose gifts, enriched, it reigns!","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 5.200 (CSEL 23:153lines 200–224–154; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5-200)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5.225":{"o":"quin et pestiferos secuta ritus\npingues daemonibus parauit aras.\nuidit haec domini deique lumen\net iustam meritis necem parauit\nsontes dissocians proculque pellens,\ndum rectum potius uidetur ipsi\nignotam refugis praeferre gentem.\nignis e domini coruscat ore,\nqui, cum perpetuum pererret orbem,\nipsis emicat inferis timendus.\nsternit pabula diruitque messes\net quae seminibus uenere iactis.\nlucent sidera fulgurantque montes,\niusta cum dominus mouetur ira\net telo timidos petit calenti.\npallor corpora luridus necabit,\nieiunum solitus adire pectus.\nillos pennigerae ferent uolucres;\nillos bestiae mordicus uorabunt:\nillos uulnera duriora ferro\nconsumptis facient lugere natis;\ntandem desinat ut sibi uideri\ndiues ceu proprio Iudaea dono.\nillam uulnificus delebit hostis,\nunum dum fugiunt timentque mille.","t":"Moreover, following pestilent rites,\nit prepared rich altars for demons.\nThe light of the Lord God saw this\nand prepared a death just for their deserts,\nseparating the guilty and driving them far away,\nwhile it seems right to him\nto prefer an unknown nation to the deserters.\nFire flashes from the mouth of the Lord,\nwhich, as it wanders through the everlasting world,\nflashes out, fearful even to the underworld.\nIt lays low the pastures and destroys the harvests\nand all that came from the seed sown.\nThe stars shine and the mountains flash\nwhen the Lord is moved with just anger\nand attacks the fearful with his hot weapon.\nLurid pallor, wont to come upon\nthe fasting breast, will kill their bodies.\nSome the winged birds will carry off;\nsome the beasts will devour with their bites;\nsome wounds harder than iron\nwill make to mourn, their children consumed;\nso that at last Judea may cease to think itself\nrich as if by its own gift.\nThe wounding enemy will destroy it,\nwhile a thousand flee and fear one.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 5.225 (CSEL 23:154lines 225–249–155; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5-225)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5.250":{"o":"sed rursus dominus redit serenus,\nut totam protinus [placidus] sedauit iram;\nlonge dissimilis deis reorum;\nquorum uinea uitis est Gomorrae\nfellito nimium fecunda musto.\ncunctis dirior aspidum uenenis.\ntempus iam properat, uidete. leti.\nomnes quo dominus cohercet ultor.\net nunc pestiferos rogate diuos:\nadsint, subueniant leuentque poenas.\nut uotis redeat medella uestris.\nsolus sum dominus, uidete: solus\nuitae conditor arbiterque leti:\nius est parcere, ius mihi ferire!\nnullus fortior arbiter caelorum\nextat. qui ualeat leuare leto\nillum, quem domini manus cohercet.\nquam dum stelligera per astra tollo.\ndicam: \"Perpetuis mandabo saeclis\neducens gladium uagina nudum:\nqui dum per trepidos rotatur hostes.\nlucet fulgure candidus corusco.\nimis pestifer et timendus altis. \"\nsemper cum domino laetare, caelum!","t":"But again the Lord returns serene,\nas he at once calmed all his anger;\nfar unlike the gods of the guilty,\nwhose vine is the vine of Gomorrah,\nall too fruitful with gall-filled juice,\nmore deadly than all the venom of asps.\nThe time of death now hastens, see,\nby which the Lord as avenger restrains all.\nAnd now call on your pestilent gods:\nlet them be present, help, and lighten the penalties,\nso that healing may return through your vows.\nI alone am Lord, see: alone\nthe founder of life and judge of death;\nmine is the right to spare, mine to strike!\nNo stronger judge in the heavens\nexists, who could release from death\nhim whom the Lord’s hand restrains.\nAs I raise it through the starry heavens,\nI will say: ‘I will command for everlasting ages,\ndrawing the bare sword from its sheath,\nwhich, while it is whirled among trembling enemies,\nshines white with flashing lightning,\ndeadly to the lowest and fearful to the highest.’\nRejoice ever with the Lord, O heaven!","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 5.250 (CSEL 23:155lines 250–273–156; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5-250)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5.27":{"o":"sanguineam exsudans, rubrantia litora, terram;\nut uos ancipiti constrictos clade laborum\nduceret, erectis alterna ad bracchia muris,\naequore diuiduo, bifida dum pendet in unda.\nuidistis. quae cura foret tum numinis alti\nuos circum, dum pone uolans se concitat hostis\nconsimilemque uiam uentoso in marmore quaerit.\nat non ille potens tumidos transmittere fluctus\nconcidit et madidas inter uersatur harenas.\nuos, spoliis dites dederat quos mollis Aegyptus,\ninformes heremi terras domibusque negatas\nuicistis tutante deo, dum lumina saxis\nilicet et mannam nitido demittit olympo.\ngrandibus et nimbis per noctem lapsa coturnix\naequora conpleuit positis circum data castris.\nindumenta. pedum longus non discidit usus,\nnec uestes periere situ uel corpore tritae;\nomnia uos circum non perdit fessa uetustas.\nhostiles cedunt acies urbesque patescunt:\nsignifer est dominus, celeri formidine missa\ndebilitans omnes, uestris qui gressibus obstant.\net nunc aequorei quoniam Iordanis ad undas\nuenimus et tellus sese iam proxima iungit\nab summo transcripta deo, per sidera testor\net quidquid celsa domini praefulget in aula,\nut legem aetheriam, quam scripsit dextra tonantis.","t":"sweating a blood-red earth, the reddening shores,\nso that he might lead you, hemmed in by the double danger of your toils,\nwith walls raised on either arm,\nthe sea divided as it hung in a cloven wave.\nYou saw what care the high divinity then had\nfor you, while behind you the enemy, flying, rushes on\nand seeks a like way through the windy sea.\nBut he, unable to pass the swollen waves,\nfell and is rolled among the wet sands.\nYou, whom soft Egypt had made rich with spoils,\nconquered the formless lands of the wilderness, denied to houses,\nwith God protecting you, while at once he brings streams from rocks\nand sends down manna from shining heaven.\nAnd quail, falling in great clouds through the night,\nfilled the plains around the pitched camp.\nLong use did not tear the coverings of your feet,\nnor did your clothes perish by decay or wear;\nweary age destroys nothing around you.\nEnemy ranks yield and cities lie open;\nthe Lord is your standard-bearer, sending swift fear\nto weaken all who stand in your way.\nAnd now, since we have come to the waters of the Jordan\nand the land assigned by the highest God now lies nearest,\nI call to witness the stars and whatever shines\nin the lofty hall of the Lord,\nthat the heavenly law which the Thunderer’s right hand wrote","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 5.27 (CSEL 23:147lines 27–52; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5-27)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5.274":{"o":"quem cunctus polus angelique laudent\net gentes socia parique plebe.\nlonga nam dominus erumpit ira\net, dum percutit inprobos superne,\nparcit subditis et pios reseruat.\nPostquam digna deo cecinit modulamina uates,\nuisurus terram Nabali e uertice montis\ndonatam populo, cuius moderamen agebat.\nconscendit sublime iugum functusque deinde\noccubuit. nullo contectus membra sepulchro.\ncuius uita fuit bis sexaginta per annos\nomnibus in rebus felici interrita cursu.\nnullis fracta malis nullique obnoxia morbo:\nquin etiam occiduo sub tempore lumina flammas\nseruauere suas. uisu sincera sereno.","t":"whom the whole sky and the angels praise,\nand the nations with a people allied and equal.\nFor the Lord breaks forth in long anger\nand, while he strikes the wicked from above,\nspares the submissive and preserves the pious.\nAfter the prophet had sung strains worthy of God,\nabout to see from the top of Mount Nebo the land\ngiven to the people whom he had ruled,\nhe climbs the lofty ridge and then, his life done,\nlay down, his limbs covered by no tomb.\nHis life lasted twice sixty years,\nfearless in all things in its happy course,\nbroken by no evils and liable to no disease;\nmoreover, in the time of his setting, his eyes kept\ntheir fire, undimmed in serene sight.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 5.274 (CSEL 23:156lines 274–288; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5-274)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5.53":{"o":"sensibus et toto uelitis corde tenere.\nnil durum rigidumue iubet. sunt omnia iusta,\nmollia, iocunda longaeque accommoda uitae,\nutpote quae iubeant. ut, quidquid non placet ulli\nconmissum in sese. id nulli inferre laboret.\nsabbata diligite. sincero et corde fouete,\nquos lex una tenet. dominus quos exhibet unus.\nnil uetitum fecisse uolet. qui diligit omnes\nnascendi sub lege pares. sit pascha quotannis\nperuigili cum nocte potens septemque diebus\notia lenta ferat nullique obnoxia curae.\nsit pater et genetrix cari semperque uerendi.\nconiugium uetitum externa in gente cauete.\nidola disicite n.tumque auertite laeuum,\nquem gentes peperere ferae, dum mortua curant\nnumina. et umbrosis statuunt donaria lucis.\nquin etiam quotiens dat signum rauca cruentum\nbucina et aeratas educunt classica turmas,\nconstructas sacrate domus uinetaque laeta\nconiugium et licitum consuetis iungito festis:\nnam dubios semper faciunt instantia casus\nbella uiris nullusque sibi dat tempora uitae.\ninbelles cohibete domi: mens saucia turbat\nsaepe uiros fortes. omnique in tempore belli\nparcite supplicibus et debellate superbos.","t":"you will be willing to hold with your senses and whole heart.\nIt commands nothing hard or rigid; all is just,\ngentle, pleasant and fitting for a long life,\nsince it commands that whatever no one likes\ndone against himself, he should not labour to inflict on anyone.\nLove the sabbaths and cherish with sincere heart\nthose whom one law holds and one Lord sets before you;\nhe who loves all, as equal under the law of birth,\nwill wish to have done nothing forbidden. Let the Passover be kept each year,\nmighty with its night of watching, and for seven days\nlet it bring slow leisure, bound to no care.\nLet father and mother be dear and ever revered.\nBeware of forbidden marriage with a foreign nation.\nScatter the idols and turn away the sinister rite\nthat wild nations brought forth, while they care for dead\ndivinities and set up offerings in shady groves.\nMoreover, whenever the hoarse trumpet gives the bloody signal\nand the clarions lead out the bronze squadrons,\nlet a man dedicate the house he has built and his glad vineyards\nand join a lawful marriage with the customary feasts;\nfor wars at hand always make the chances doubtful\nfor men, and no one gives himself the years of his life.\nKeep the unwarlike at home: a wounded mind often unsettles\nbrave men. And at every time of war\nspare the suppliant and war down the proud.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 5.53 (CSEL 23:148lines 53–77; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5-53)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5.78":{"o":"euitete. uiri. fecundam euertere siluam\nnobilibus pomis; steriles succidite saltus\ntempore bellorum. corpus si forte perempti\ncernitur intectum, Leuitas cura tenebit\niuuencae truncare pedem. ne maximus ultor\nsit deus innocui. captiuam iungere lecto\nsi placuit, ius omne sinet sub tecta tenere.\ncrinigerum tondere caput unguesque secare\nterdenosque dies lacrimis praestare maerentis\nextinctos caesosque senes. quis illa creata est.\nconiugioque sibi tum demum adnectere iusto.\nac si displicuit post damnum capta pudoris,\ndeponat seruile iugum dominumque relinquat.\nuxores si forte duas uir duxerit unus\net non aequali seruat consortia cura,\npignora contemptae bissem cum iure tenebunt\nomnibus ex rebus, peperit quas cura parentis.\ndamnatos tumulate uiros cunctosque sepulchris\ncondite percussos: nulli nam terra negatur.\nuestimenta uiri nequaquam femina sumat\nmulierumue mares; uetito fit noxia cultu.\ninplumes auium si quis uult prendere fetus.\nne matrem cum prole ferat. qui culmina pangit.\nprouideat. ne forte faber uoluatur ab alto.\nuinea ne grauidos pariat bis feta racemos:","t":"Avoid, men, overturning a wood fertile\nwith noble fruits; cut down the barren glades\nin time of war. If perhaps the body of one slain\nis seen uncovered, the Levites will be charged\nto cut off the foot of a heifer, lest God be the great avenger\nof the innocent. If it pleases a man to take a captive to his bed,\nthe whole law will let him keep her under his roof,\nshear her long-haired head and cut her nails,\nand grant her thirty days for tears, mourning\nher elders, dead and slain, from whom she was born,\nand then at last bind her to himself in lawful marriage.\nAnd if, after the loss of her chastity, the captive displeases him,\nlet her lay down the servile yoke and leave her master.\nIf perhaps one man has married two wives\nand does not keep the partnerships with equal care,\nthe children of the despised one shall by right hold a double portion\nof all the things that the parent’s care has produced.\nBury condemned men and lay all the slain in tombs,\nfor earth is denied to no one.\nLet a woman by no means put on a man’s clothes,\nnor men women’s; guilt comes from forbidden dress.\nIf anyone wishes to take the unfledged young of birds,\nlet him not take the mother with her brood. He who builds roofs,\nlet him take care lest perhaps the workman roll down from on high.\nLet not the vineyard, twice sown, bear heavy clusters,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 5.78 (CSEL 23:149lines 78–102; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/5-78)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.1":{"o":"Haec inter dominus Iesum dignatus adire\npromittit ualidis sublimem confore donis,\nadmonitum transire uadum Iordanis amoeni\ncastraque metata hostili inponere ripae;\nutque nouas sedes terrarum in parte reposta\nconstituat plebemque locis disponat opimis.\nquin etiam gentes distincto ex nomine noscit\nmonte tenus magno, quem Libanon incola dicit.\nusque tuas. prono qui laberis agmine, ripas.\nEuphrates. Syrio disiungens limite Persas,\nuel mare, quod tumidum uentosis fluctuat undis.\nnam praeter eximium conserta in proelia robur,\nterrorem late populis pallentibus indens,\nIudaicus miles domini tutamine fidit.\ncui meritum insigne dominus largitus ab astris\npraestitit. ut caperet dites sine uulnere terras.\n\"Heia age uiriles, deus intonat, arripe curas,\nut populus donata sibi mox regna capessat.\nlegiferoque simul uisus ne dimoue libro.\nut domino tutus numquam uiduere perenni.\"\nille citus scribis mandata gerentibus infit.\nut uictum populus et congrua tela capessat.\nmoturus ualidas uicina ad bella cohortes.\ntertia puniceum signet cum linea mundum.\nadfatusque tribus iuncto Iordane manentes.","t":"Meanwhile the Lord, deigning to speak to Joshua,\npromises that he will be exalted with mighty gifts,\nand tells him to cross the ford of the pleasant Jordan\nand set the measured camp on the enemy’s bank,\nand to establish new seats in the remote part of the lands\nand settle the people in rich places.\nMoreover he learns the nations by their distinct names\nas far as the great mountain the inhabitant calls Lebanon,\nas far as your banks, Euphrates, who glide down in your course,\nparting the Persians from the Syrian border,\nor the sea that surges swollen with windy waves.\nFor besides the outstanding strength joined in battle,\nputting terror far and wide into pale peoples,\nthe Jewish soldier trusts in the Lord’s protection.\nTo him the Lord, bestowing notable merit from the stars,\ngranted that he should take rich lands without a wound.\n“Come now,” God thunders, “take up manly cares,\nso that the people may soon take up the realms given them.\nAnd do not turn your eyes from the book of the law,\nso that, safe, you may never be bereft of the everlasting Lord.”\nHe at once tells the scribes who carry the commands\nthat the people should take food and fitting weapons,\nas he is about to move strong cohorts to the wars at hand\nwhen the third dawn marks the world with purple.\nAnd addressing the tribes that remain by the Jordan,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.1 (CSEL 23:158lines 1–25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-1)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.100":{"o":"cum subito eluuies, fluuio decurrere sueta,\nstringitur et glacie cursus frenatur aquarum:\neuolat inferius positi pars fluminis ac se\ncondit in oceanum uastoque inmergitur aestu\na regione, pii quae condit membra Mosetis,\nusque ad inmensum dubiis cum fluctibus aequor.\natque ubi Iordanem transmeauere frequentes,\nlaxatur glacies solis mollita tepore\nexsuctasque prius coniungit flumine ripas.\nHaec ubi cognorunt diuersa in parte tyranni.\ndemittunt mentes; nullum constantia firmat.\nhic princeps cultros bissena ex caute parauit,\nde quibus. ut iussum est. populi praeputia dempsit.\nnam bis uicenos heremo plebs tanta per annos\nediderat ualidos maiora in milia natos.\npraebetur his lenta quies, ut tristia maestis\nuulnera mitificet sensim coitura cicatrix.\npascha dehinc colitur et candens manna negatur\nditibus annona. quam passim plurima messis\nexhibuit populo certatim farra metenti.\nazyma. niuosa pascit de polline laetos.\nnoctis festa piae campo celebrantur aperto,\nnouorum in mense senis bis solibus actis.\nhaec super e portis despectat turba pauentum,\ncastra modo et lecto conseruans milite muros.","t":"when suddenly the flood, used to running down the river,\nis checked and the course of the waters is bridled with ice;\nthe lower part of the river flies off and hides itself\nin the ocean and is plunged into the vast tide,\nfrom the region that holds the limbs of pious Moses\nas far as the immense sea with its uncertain waves.\nAnd when they had crossed the Jordan in their crowds,\nthe ice is loosened, softened by the warmth of the sun,\nand joins again with its stream the banks sucked dry before.\nWhen the tyrants on the other side learned this,\nthey lose heart; no constancy strengthens anyone.\nHere the chief prepared knives from twelve stones,\nwith which, as commanded, he removed the foreskins of the people;\nfor through twice twenty years in the wilderness so great a people\nhad produced strong sons, grown to more thousands.\nThey are granted slow rest, so that the scar, gradually closing,\nmay soften the sad wounds of the sufferers.\nThen the Passover is kept, and the shining manna is denied\nto those rich in grain, which a very great harvest everywhere\noffered to the people as they reaped the grain in rivalry.\nUnleavened bread of snowy flour feeds them gladly.\nThe festival of the holy night is kept in the open plain\nin the month of new things, when twice six suns had passed.\nAbove, from the gates, a crowd of the fearful looks down on this,\nguarding only the camp and the walls with chosen soldiers.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.100 (CSEL 23:160lines 100–124–161; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-100)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.125":{"o":"interea uates quendam mucrone minantem\nperspicit, et celere gaudet coniungere gressus.\ntalia dum memorat: \"Qua te de parte praesentas?\nnoster es, an potius Phoenicum ex gente? fatere.\"\naccipit optati sermonis protinus usum.\nsublimi narrante deo. \"Delapsus ab alto\naethere nunc ueni, totis cui militat astris\ninsignis legio et quo sub principe degit.\"\nille sub haec mixta tacitus formidine gaudet,\nfusus humi ueneransque deum, dum talibus infit:\n\"O domine, inmensam dignatus linquere sedem,\nquae famulum celerare iubes, quas sumere curas?\"\ndicitur, ut propere plantarum uincula soluat,\nfixerat in sancta quoniam uestigia terra.\nquin etiam ualidam muris atque obice firma\ncasuram Hiericho uidet, gentesque feroces\natque obitum regum, quibus est coniuncta ruina.\nille celer toto circumdat milite muros,\npone sacerdotes statuens arcamque sacratam.\nuatibus inperitans, quo plebs audentior esset.\nterrificos sonitus septem proflare tubarum.\niussa dehinc legio tacite circumuenit urbem.\nut tum belligerum tollat stipata clamorem.\nterrificum dederit proceris cum tessera, signum.\nseptima iamque dies laetum patefecerat orbem.","t":"Meanwhile the prophet sees someone threatening with a blade\nand is eager to approach him quickly,\nsaying: “From what side do you come?\nAre you ours, or rather of the Phoenician race? Speak.”\nAt once he receives the speech he desired,\nGod on high declaring: “I have now come, gliding down\nfrom high heaven, I for whom a notable legion fights\nwith all the stars, and under whose leadership it lives.”\nAt this he silently rejoices, mixed with fear,\nprostrate on the ground and worshipping God, as he begins thus:\n“O Lord, who have deigned to leave your immense seat,\nwhat do you bid your servant hasten to do?”\nHe is told to loose the straps of his feet quickly,\nsince he had set his feet on holy ground.\nMoreover he sees that Jericho, strong with walls and bars,\nwill fall, and the fierce nations,\nand the death of the kings, to which ruin is joined.\nHe quickly surrounds the walls with his whole army,\nplacing the priests and the sacred ark behind,\ncommanding the priests, so that the people might be bolder,\nto blow out the terrifying sounds of seven trumpets.\nThen the legion, as ordered, silently goes round the city,\nso that then, massed together, it might raise the war cry\nwhen the chief’s watchword had given the terrifying signal.\nAnd now the seventh day had opened the glad world,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.125 (CSEL 23:161lines 125–149–162; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-125)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.150":{"o":"cum iubet aeratas acies in proelia Iesus\nfidentem proferre gradum uastumque fragorem\nmittere pectoribus, quem promptim tela sequuntur\nnon aries caementa quatit turresque retundit\nincessens etiam muros portasque superbas.\nsed fragor et uastae concordi murmure uoces\ntormentum mortale gerunt, quo moenia sidunt\nnudataque suis patuerunt omnia claustris.\ninrumpunt alacres subuersam protinus urbem.\nomnia uertentes gladio flammaque uoraci.\nfemina sola fuit meritae donata saluti,\nciuili discreta neci atque abdita castris,\ncognata comitante manu, ne nescius illam\ninterimat miles, totis dum postibus errat.\nseruatur domino uirtutum lauta supellex\nomnibus ex rebus. poterant quae pascere uisum.\nHis actis princeps populum iurare coegit,\nne studeat quisquam muros renouare iacentes\npignore multandus primo fundamina. propter,\nextremo dehinc, temptet si attollere portas.\ninterea euentus corrumpunt praua secundos.\nidola sectatur populus et pronus adorat\nsaxa leuata manu. dum cautes numina credit.\nsignifer est Acharus. Carmeli filius Ambri,\nquem sectata cohors dominum legemque reliquit.","t":"when Joshua orders the bronze ranks to bring forward\na confident step into battle and send a vast shout\nfrom their breasts, which weapons promptly follow.\nNo ram shakes the masonry and batters down the towers,\nassailing the walls and the proud gates too;\nbut the crash and the vast voices with harmonious roar\nwork as a deadly engine, by which the walls sink down,\nand all lay open, stripped of their bars.\nThey eagerly burst at once into the overthrown city,\nturning everything over with sword and devouring flame.\nThe woman alone was granted the safety she had earned,\nset apart from the citizens’ death and hidden in the camp,\nwith her kin accompanying her, lest a soldier, not knowing her,\nshould kill her as he roams among all the doorways.\nThe rich furnishings won by valour are kept for the Lord,\nof all the things that could feast the eye.\nThese things done, the chief made the people swear\nthat no one should try to rebuild the fallen walls;\nhe would be punished with his firstborn for the foundations,\nthen with his last if he tried to set up the gates.\nMeanwhile depraved acts spoil success.\nThe people follow idols and worship, bowed down,\nstones set up by hand, believing rocks to be divinities.\nThe standard-bearer is Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zimri,\nfollowing whom the band left the Lord and the law.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.150 (CSEL 23:162lines 150–174–163; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-150)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.175":{"o":"in uetitis haut laeta diu: nam milia postquam\ntrina uirum consueta. nefas. sunt missa per arua\nhostica credentum facili formidine uinci\nGeorum pubem, trepide dant terga per agros\npraecipitique fuga repetunt sua castra ducemque.\ndedecus id postquam ductoris contigit aures,\ndiscindit uestes et prouida pectora tundit.\nquem comitata senum confestim turba maerentum\nsupplicat, innocuis dum poscit uocibus Auses:\n\"O domine, quae causa fuit producere plebem\nAegypti de sede tuam? quid pendere fluctus\naequoreos cunctaque dehinc quae tradita nosti\ningenti donante manu, qua ditius est nil?\nan ideo. adflictam tumidus ut sternat Amorreus?\ntutius ergo fuit trans magnum degere flumen.\nqui patuit nobis bibula siccatus harena.\nsaucia quid faciet, aut quid confusa loquetur.\nquod mage seruitium cupias detrudere lectos.\natqui uera salus et certae dona medellae\nte penes et quidquid mitis clementia praestat.\nconuenient gentes. dederas quas uincere nobis;\nmixta Iebusaeus Amorreusque phalange\naduersum te. summe sator, fera bella mouebunt.\nergo tuum nomen pateris ridere superbos\nignotaeque tibi gentes plus iuris habebunt?\"","t":"not glad for long in forbidden things: for after three thousand men,\nthe customary number (a sinful act!), were sent through enemy fields,\nbelieving that the youth of Ai would be easily put to flight,\nthey turn their backs in fear through the fields\nand in headlong flight seek again their camp and their leader.\nAfter this disgrace reached the leader’s ears,\nhe tears his clothes and beats his foreseeing breast.\nA crowd of mourning elders accompanying him at once\nmakes supplication, while Joshua asks with innocent words:\n“O Lord, what cause was there to lead your people out\nof the seat of Egypt? Why suspend the waves\nof the sea and all the things you know were then handed over\nby your mighty giving hand, than which nothing is richer?\nWas it for this, that the swollen Amorite might lay the afflicted low?\nIt would have been safer to live beyond the great river,\nwhich lay open to us, dried, with thirsty sand.\nWhat will wounded Israel do, or what will it say in confusion,\nthat you should rather wish to thrust your chosen into slavery?\nAnd yet true salvation and the gifts of sure healing\nare in your power, and whatever gentle mercy provides.\nThe nations will gather that you had given us to conquer;\nthe Jebusite and the Amorite, in a mixed phalanx,\nwill move fierce wars against you, highest Sower.\nWill you then let the proud laugh at your name,\nand nations unknown to you have more right?”","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.175 (CSEL 23:163lines 175–199–164; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-175)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.200":{"o":"flectitur his dominus uatemque adsurgere iussit.\ncommemorans sensim deformis crimina culpae\nplectenda exitio capitis. quod talia suasit.\nhinc ubi prima dies noctem dimouit opacam.\ncorripit e somno corpus sociosque fatigat\ncognatasque tribus per nomina singula uisit;\ndeprendens noxale caput dat corpora morti\ninproba, dum pariter pecudes mittuntur in ignem.\nquod facinus primus conmissum dixit Acharus\ninfelix praedae et spoliorum accensus amore.\nquae sepulta domi propria tellure tegebat.\ncontinuo haec missi quaerunt; quae cito reperta\net coram conposta duce populoque frequenti.\nille ubi quaesitam uidit non defore praedam.\ntalibus eloquitur rector terretque timentem:\n\"Fare age nunc cunctis, quae te dementia cepit.\naut quid adiuuit rerum tibi nescius usus.\ninmemor ut legis ritum sequerere nocentum?\net nisi saluasset sublimis gloria plebem,\nlibera colla iugo pressisset uictor Amorrus.\nheia age, pro cunctis admissa piacula pende.\nut saluata. deus dominusque in castra recurrat.\"\nhaec ubi disseruit, saxorum tollitur imber\ndamnatumque premit stirpemque euerberat eius;","t":"The Lord is moved by this and bade the prophet rise,\nrecounting little by little the guilt of the hideous offence,\nto be punished by the death of the one who had urged such things.\nThen, when the first day had removed the dark night,\nhe rouses his body from sleep and stirs his companions\nand visits the kindred tribes name by name;\ncatching the guilty head, he gives the wicked to death,\nwhile the cattle too are sent into the fire.\nUnhappy Achan first said that he had committed the crime,\ninflamed by love of plunder and spoils,\nwhich he had buried at home and covered in his own earth.\nAt once men sent search for them; they are quickly found\nand set out before the leader and the crowded people.\nWhen he saw that the plunder sought was not missing,\nthe ruler speaks thus and terrifies the frightened man:\n“Come now, tell everyone what madness seized you,\nor what ignorant use of things helped you,\nthat, forgetful of the law, you followed the rite of the guilty?\nAnd had the lofty glory not saved the people,\nthe victorious Amorite would have pressed our free necks with the yoke.\nCome now, pay for all the guilt you have committed,\nso that God and the Lord may return to the camp now saved.”\nWhen he had said this, a shower of stones is raised\nand crushes the condemned man and beats down his family;","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.200 (CSEL 23:164lines 200–223; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-200)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.224":{"o":"et pecora et quidquid rerum seruauerat idem,\ncandens flamma rapit canoque in puluere soluit.\nhis actis curae emotae: deus omnia mitis\nrespicit et cunctis pariter consueta resignat\nrobora, quis ualeant acies detrudere cunctas.\naccipit hic domini mandata insignia rector,\ninstruat ut socias quaecumque in bella cohortes,\nmille legens iuuenes insigni corpore et annis,\nut, belli dum furta parant, dumeta capessant,\nhaut procul hos tacite Gergesi a moenibus abdens,\nut cum mentita formidine uertere terga\noccipiat clausosque uiros educat in aequum,\ncontinuo celeres nemorosa cubilia linquant\nnudatasque uiris studeant peruadere portas.\nnec mora, propositis respondent omnia uatis.\npostquam obliquo decertant agmine turmae,\nprinceps terga suos confestim uertere iussit,\nquos inimica super denso ruit agmine turba\nac multo clamore premit ferrumque coruscat.\nquod speculata cohors, quae concaua ualle latebat.\neuolat et uacuis perrumpit moenia portis,\nsubiciens rapidos tectis sublimibus ignes.\nconfusus cum deinde sonus ac flebile murmur\nGergessos conferre caput uisumque coegit.","t":"and the cattle and whatever things he had kept\nthe white flame seizes and dissolves into grey dust.\nThese things done, their cares were removed: God gently\nlooks again on all and restores to all alike their accustomed\nstrength, by which they could drive back every rank.\nHere the ruler receives the notable commands of the Lord,\nto draw up the allied cohorts for any war,\nchoosing a thousand young men notable in body and years,\nso that, while they prepare the stratagems of war, they hide in the thickets,\nhiding them silently not far from the walls of Ai,\nso that when he began to turn his back in feigned fear\nand draw the shut-in men out onto the plain,\nthey would at once quickly leave their wooded lairs\nand strive to burst through the gates stripped of men.\nWithout delay all goes as the prophet had planned.\nAfter the companies had fought in slanting column,\nthe chief ordered his men at once to turn their backs;\nthe hostile crowd rushes upon them in dense column\nand presses on with much shouting and brandishes its swords.\nSeeing this, the band that lay hidden in the hollow valley\nflies out and bursts into the walls by the empty gates,\nsetting swift fires to the lofty roofs.\nThen a confused sound and a tearful murmur\ncompelled the men of Ai to turn their heads and look.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.224 (CSEL 23:165lines 224–247; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-224)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.248":{"o":"respiciunt atram in caelum uolitare fauillam\nflammarumque globos, quos culmina capta uomebant,\ndiuersamque manum tergo frontique minantem:\ndeprensi horrescunt exossaque tela relinquunt.\nconfixa ante oculos lacrimantumque ora parentum\npars in praecipites fossas uictore ruente\ntruditur, aut captae portis sese arietat urbis.\nsternuntur ferro iuuenum bis milia sena.\nipse quoque exultans aususque erumpere in aequum\nrex primo incursu capitur uinctusque tenetur\nconfigiturque cruci; miserum dant saxa sepulchrum.\nomnibus absumptis solum non sorbuit ignis.\nquod rapuit festina manus; iumentaque tantum\nsunt dirempta neci, subeunt quae pondera tergo.\ninterea ad reges reuolat uictoria. cunctos.\naudit Amorreus Iordani adiunctus amoeno\net qui dumosis posuere in montibus aulas\nuel campos habitant laetos uallesque supinas,\net qui caerulei consistunt margine ponti.\nCetaeusque simul Chananaeusque susurrat\nEueusque pauet Pherezeusque labascit.\net Iebusa manus pariter Gergessaque pallent.\nnec tamen infracti penitus penitusque iacentes\nattollunt animos seseque in proelia firmant :\nomnibus unus amor Iesum detrudere regnis.","t":"They look back and see black ash flying to heaven\nand balls of flame that the captured roofs belched out,\nand another band threatening their rear and front;\ncaught, they shudder and let their useless weapons fall.\nPierced before the eyes and faces of their weeping parents,\nsome are driven into the steep ditches as the victor rushes on,\nor dash themselves against the gates of the captured city.\nTwice six thousand young men are laid low by the sword.\nThe king himself too, exulting and daring to burst out onto the plain,\nis taken at the first onset and held in chains,\nand fixed to a cross; stones give the wretch a tomb.\nWhen all was consumed, the fire did not swallow only\nwhat the hasty hand had seized; and only the beasts of burden,\nwhich carry loads on their backs, were spared from death.\nMeanwhile the news of victory flies to the kings. All hear it:\nthe Amorite joined to the pleasant Jordan,\nand those who set their halls in the thorny mountains\nor dwell in glad plains and sloping valleys,\nand those who live on the margin of the blue sea.\nThe Hittite and the Canaanite whisper together,\nthe Hivite fears and the Perizzite wavers,\nand the Jebusite and Girgashite bands grow pale alike.\nYet, not wholly broken and wholly prostrate,\nthey raise their spirits and steel themselves for battle;\nall have one desire, to drive Joshua from their realms.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.248 (CSEL 23:165lines 248–272–166; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-248)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.26":{"o":"ut pecora et natos percepta in rura. relinquant,\nat bellum commune gerant uictisque deinde\nse referant populis. domino quos principe pulsent.\nillae alacres iungunt cuneos atque agmina miscent.\naspera quaeque pares ferro uotisque petentes.\nHaec inter iuuenes pugnaci ex agmine lectos.\nquae loca quiue habeant homines, ubi moenia gentis,\nuestigare iubet cursimque inspecta referre.\npinguia qui Medium lustrant dum praedia terrae,\ninrumpunt urbis aditus custode uacantes\noccultique situm lustrant et tecta Hiericho.\nexcipit hos meretrix, dudum quae dicta Rachaba est,\nclamque tegit trepidos ac uerbis sedula mulcet.\nquod postquam regi dictum, terrore minaci\nexigit absconsos stabili cum mente loquentis\negressos dudum portis bipatentibus ambos.\nquos tamen occultim lignorum texerat antro.\nillos cura ducis per deuia quaeque requirit\net, uelut hostis agat, portarum limina claudit.\nat meretrix, postquam cessauit cura tyranni,\nuertitur ad iuuenes et uatis more locuta est:\n\"Nota mihi, fratres, dominus quae praemia uobis\ndeferat, ex furua cum primum dempsit Aegypto:\nut mare per medium fluctu suspensa tumenti\nunda fuit uobis ueluti pro moenibus ingens.","t":"that they should leave their cattle and children in the fields they had received,\nbut wage the common war and then, the enemy conquered,\nreturn to the peoples they would drive out with the Lord as chief.\nThey eagerly join their companies and mingle their columns,\nseeking every hardship alike with sword and vows.\nMeanwhile he orders young men chosen from the fighting column\nto track out what places there were, what men held them, where the nation’s walls stood,\nand to report quickly what they had seen.\nWhile they survey the rich estates of the land,\nthey burst into the approaches of the city, empty of guards,\nand secretly survey the site and buildings of Jericho.\nA harlot receives them, who was then called Rahab,\nand secretly hides them in their fear and diligently soothes them with words.\nAfter this was told to the king, with threatening terror\nhe demands those hidden; she, speaking with steady mind,\nsays that both had long since gone out by the double gates.\nYet she had hidden them secretly in a hollow among the wood.\nThe leader’s care seeks them through every byway\nand, as though an enemy were coming, closes the gates.\nBut the harlot, after the tyrant’s search had stopped,\nturns to the young men and spoke like a prophet:\n“I know, brothers, what rewards the Lord\nhas brought you since he first took you out of dark Egypt:\nhow in the middle of the sea the water was suspended\nwith swelling wave like huge walls for you,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.26 (CSEL 23:158lines 26–50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-26)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.273":{"o":"conueniuntque Gabana, loco atque agmina sistunt.\nipse inter curas bellorum construit altar.\nMoysetis de more. deo; quod uincula ferri\nnulla ligant, dum saxa simul conpacta cohaerent,\naequali coeunte situ. libamina promens\ngrata deo. quis spirat odor iucundus in altis.\nquin etiam legis discribit iura magistrae:\nDeuteron est nomen, quoniam transacta reuoluit;\nquam pariter totum fas est cognoscere mundum.\narca sacerdotum uehitur ceruicibus alma.\nquicumque ut uideant domini donaria summi.\natque etiam uates populo benedicere suetus\npercurrit, quae iussa prius, quae cauta deinde,\ngestorum ratione pari atque ordine certo.\nat Gabaona manus postquam successibus altis\nIudaeos creuisse uidet caesosque tyrannos\nurbibus euersis nullumque obsistere posse,\ncallida uersuto celerant conludia facto\net, quos contiguis regio coniunxerat aruis.\nconfingunt discreta procul sese adfore terra\nmirantes tropaea uiri palmasque recentes,\nsi ualeant precibus uictori adiungere dextras\net sociare domos totamque adnectere gentem\nuicturam ratione data. ni dissona corda\ndespiciant humiles et subdita colla retractent.","t":"and they gather at Gibeon in one place and halt their columns.\nJoshua himself, amid the cares of war, builds an altar\nto God in the manner of Moses, which no bonds of iron\nbind, while the stones hold together, fitted\nside by side; bringing out offerings\npleasing to God, from which a sweet odour breathes on high.\nMoreover he writes out the statutes of the teaching law:\nits name is Deuteronomy, since it goes over what was done before,\nand it is right for the whole world alike to know it.\nThe life-giving ark is carried on the necks of the priests,\nso that all may see the gifts of the highest Lord.\nAnd the prophet, used to blessing the people,\nruns through what was commanded before and what was later safeguarded,\nwith like reckoning of the deeds and in sure order.\nBut after the band of Gibeon saw that with lofty successes\nthe Jews had grown and the tyrants were slain,\nthe cities overturned and none able to resist,\nthey hasten to a cunning collusion by a crafty deed,\nand, though the region had joined them to Israel in neighbouring fields,\nthey pretend that they have come from a land far away,\nadmiring the man’s trophies and fresh palms,\nto see whether by prayers they could join right hands with the victor\nand ally their houses and attach their whole nation,\nso as to survive by an agreement given, unless discordant hearts\nshould despise the humble and reject the necks submitted to them.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.273 (CSEL 23:166lines 273–297–167; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-273)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.298":{"o":"utque fidis certae ualeant seruare colorem,\ndeprensos multo conpellant pondere mulos,\nputria portantes celeri molimine farra.\nquae ueteres lasso cohibebant tegmine sacci;\nuinaque consuti multo cum uulnere folles\nuix retinent, dum plaga negat uincire liquorem.\nuestitus lacero nudabat corpora panno.\ncalceus adtritis misere dat tegmina plantis.\nfrangitur his ductor populi, dum supplice palma\nuincitur et mentes credit cohaerere loquellae.\nsuscipit orantes ueniam castrisque receptat.\nsed, ut saepe solet, non longum ficta teguntur,\nconpositosque dolos aperit testatio ueri.\nilicet hos uates coram castigat amice;\net, quia iurarat domini per nomen aeterni,\nmansit amica fides; sed ius commune negatum est:\nlixarum officio circum sacraria iussi\nconuehere exortes puris de fontibus undas.\nhos Donibezelo postquam descisse relatum est.\nregna Iebusaea qui tum tractabat in aula.\nquinque mouet reges suscepta in proelia fidos.\nacrius obliquus sociis pro foedere rupto,\nquam ⟨in⟩ populum, inmensas acies qui fuderat armis.\nat Gabaon coetu multorum territa regum\nmittit oratores uatemque exposcit amicum.","t":"And so that they might keep up the appearance of sure faith,\nthey drive mules loaded with heavy weight,\ncarrying mouldy grain with swift effort,\nwhich old sacks held in their weary covering;\nand wineskins sewn up with many a wound scarcely hold the wine,\nwhile the gash refuses to bind the liquid.\nTheir clothing bared their bodies with torn rags,\nand their shoes gave wretched covering to their worn soles.\nThe leader of the people is broken by this, while he is won\nby their suppliant hands and believes their minds agree with their speech.\nHe receives them as they ask for pardon and admits them to the camp.\nBut, as often happens, feigned things are not long hidden,\nand the witness of the truth uncovers the contrived deceit.\nAt once the prophet chastises them openly, but in friendship;\nand, because he had sworn by the name of the eternal Lord,\nthe friendly faith remained; but common rights were denied them:\nthey were ordered, in the service of camp-followers,\nto carry water from pure springs around the sanctuary, without a share.\nAfter it was reported that they had gone over,\nAdoni-zedek, who then ruled the Jebusite realm in his hall,\nmoves five kings, faithful to the war he undertook,\nmore fiercely hostile to the allies for breaking the treaty\nthan against the people who had routed immense ranks with arms.\nBut Gibeon, terrified by the gathering of many kings,\nsends envoys and begs the friendly prophet","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.298 (CSEL 23:167lines 298–322–168; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-298)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.323":{"o":"confestim toto succurrat milite maestis.\nnec mora, correptis dimittit Galgala signis\nhostica castra petens. domino subdente uigorem\ntalibus adloquiis: \"Timeas ne nomina regum\nmulta simul ualidasque putes his esse cohortes;\nquamlibet inmensa confidant nube cateruae.\nnil pedes efficiet equitum nec tela ualebunt,\nfalcibus et curuis armatas temne quadrigas.\nnamque ego pallenti quatiam formidine gentes;\nnusquam fronte pari concurrent comminus hostes\npalantes tumida ualido cum milite caede.\"\nhaec ubi cognouit, numerosum tendit ad hostem;\nnamque Apaphum belli tenuerunt sede tyranni\nconfestimque fugam dimisso milite sumunt.\ncetera turba uirum confusae stragis aceruo\noccubuit camposque inpleuit fusa patentes.\nnec tantum exanimes uincentum perculit ensis.\nquantum praegelidi conferta ex grandine nimbi;\net licet hinc enses, hinc fulmina clara coruscent.\nuna dies tantis non est sat longa triumphis.\nergo hebetes cernens gladios et funera lenta.\nauxilium a domino princeps, quod sueuerat. orat.\nQuamlibet extentis lux haec non sufficit horis.\ntempora ni iubeas noctis se adiungere luci.","t":"to help the sorrowful at once with all his soldiers.\nWithout delay he takes up the standards and leaves Gilgal,\nmaking for the enemy camp, the Lord giving him strength\nwith these words: “Do not fear the many names of kings\ntogether, nor think their cohorts strong;\nhowever much their bands trust in an immense cloud of men,\nthe infantry will achieve nothing, nor will the horsemen’s weapons prevail;\nscorn the four-horse chariots armed with curved scythes.\nFor I will shake the nations with pale fear;\nnowhere will the enemy meet you face to face with equal front,\nscattered in swollen slaughter by your strong soldiers.”\nWhen he learned this, he advances against the numerous enemy;\nfor the warring tyrants held the seat of Aphek,\nand at once, dismissing their soldiers, they take to flight.\nThe rest of the crowd fell in a heap of confused slaughter\nand, strewn about, filled the open plains.\nNor did the sword of the victors strike so many dead\nas the ice-cold clouds dense with hail;\nand though here swords, there bright lightnings flash,\none day is not long enough for such great triumphs.\nSo, seeing the swords grown dull and the slaughter slow,\nthe chief asks the Lord for the help he was used to:\n“However its hours are stretched, this light is not enough,\nunless you bid the hours of night be joined to the day.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.323 (CSEL 23:168lines 323–346–169; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-323)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.347":{"o":"sit nunc flamma uagi librato in pondere solis\nnec moueat tremulos lunaris circulus ignes.\nut elementa, suis ceu nescia currere metis,\ntempora protelent. condensus dum ruit hostis.\nauditur propere: sol sistitur et uaga luna\ncohibuit faciles utroque in cardine cursus.\nnec minus et reges. quos concaua saxa tegebant,\nobstricta ceruice palam consistere iussit.\nundique tum positis concurrit Iudaea telis\ninpressoque genu conculcat colla gementum.\nilicet exsangues crucibus figuntur in altis\npendentes, donec sese nox reddidit atra.\ntum suspensa uirum deponit corpora ligno.\nquae super adgestis onerantur saxa ruinis.\nhis actis properat bellator subdere Lemnam.\ngrandaeuosque necat. pueris nec defuit ensis;\nnil penitus tota permissum uiuere gente.\ninde petita Lachis prostratis moenibus ardet;\nrex etiam populi capitur ferroque necatur.\nDabira quin etiam. paribus cooperta ruinis,\nextincta legione perit socioque tyranno.\net qui dumosis habuere in collibus arces\naut curuas coluit ualles camposque iacentes.\noccidit, extinctis pariter cum rege maniplis.\nac dum cuncta fluunt successu laeta secundo.","t":"Let the flame of the wandering sun now stand in balanced weight,\nand let the circle of the moon not move its trembling fires,\nso that the elements, as though not knowing how to run to their goals,\nmay prolong the time while the dense enemy falls.”\nHe is heard at once: the sun stands still, and the wandering moon\nheld back her easy course at either pole.\nAnd the kings too, whom hollow rocks had hidden,\nhe ordered to stand openly with bound necks.\nThen from every side, weapons laid down, Judea runs together\nand, pressing with the knee, tramples the necks of the groaning kings.\nAt once the bloodless men are fixed on high crosses,\nhanging until the black night returned.\nThen he takes down the hung bodies of the men from the wood,\nand they are loaded with stones heaped upon them.\nThese things done, the warrior hastens to subdue Libnah,\nand kills the aged; nor was the sword spared the boys;\nnone at all of the whole nation was allowed to live.\nThen Lachish is attacked and burns with its walls laid low;\nthe king of the people too is captured and killed with the sword.\nDebir too, buried in like ruins,\nperishes, its legion destroyed along with its allied tyrant.\nAnd whoever held citadels on thorny hills\nor dwelt in curving valleys and level plains\nfell, his companies destroyed along with their king.\nAnd while all things flow gladly with favourable success,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.347 (CSEL 23:169lines 347–371–170; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-347)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.372":{"o":"Iabirus, acta uidens uictricis fortia gentis.\nditia qui populis Asorum regna regebat.\nfestinans flammam uicini extinguere belli,\ncongregat eximios reges populosque feroces.\nquem Roboamus adit propere Ma[che]donis ab aula;\net Somorus factusque comes Axinus in armis.\net qui Sidonia ductor regnabat in arce.\nCeneritus Arabusque. quibus contermina regna.\nfirmabant animos sceptri socialis amore.\niungitur Ernadurus et qui coniuncta Chanannus\nrura colit ponto. uel qui primordia solis\nrubra uident, roseus cum primum panditur axis.\nhis super adproperat Iebuso adfinis Amorrus\nCetius Eucheusque Pherezeusque sequuntur.\nqui deserta colunt squalentis deuia Thitsae.\nomnibus est animus stipata incurrere turba.\nexim quisque suo contorquent spicula ritu:\nhic peditum incedit legio densataque nube\nquadriiugique ruunt ferrato milite currus.\nut fragor ipse fuget nitentem comminus hostem.\nat parte ex alia Iesus nil territus instat.\npropter aquas ueniens Maronis nomine dictas;\natque ubi cum lecto conscendit milite collem,\ndesuper incurrens securum proterit hostem.\nomnia caede madent tellusque infecta cruore est.","t":"Jabin, seeing the mighty deeds of the victorious nation,\nhe who ruled the rich realms of Hazor for its peoples,\nhastening to put out the flame of the war nearby,\ngathers outstanding kings and fierce peoples.\nJobab comes to him quickly from the hall of Madon,\nand the king of Shimron, and Achshaph, made a companion in arms,\nand he who reigned as leader in the citadel of Sidon,\nChinneroth and the Arabah, whose neighbouring realms\nstrengthened their spirits by love of an allied sceptre.\nDor is joined, and the Canaanite who tills the fields\njoined to the sea, and those who see the red beginnings\nof the sun when the rosy sky first opens.\nBesides these the Amorite hastens, neighbour to the Jebusite;\nthe Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite follow,\nwho dwell in the desert byways of barren Mizpah.\nAll are minded to charge in a massed crowd.\nThen each hurls his darts in his own fashion:\nhere the legion of infantry advances in a dense cloud,\nand four-horse chariots rush on with iron-clad soldiers,\nso that the very crash may rout the enemy as he strains near.\nBut on the other side Joshua, not at all terrified, presses on,\ncoming by the waters called by the name of Merom;\nand when he had climbed a hill with chosen soldiers,\nrushing down from above he crushes the careless enemy.\nEverything is wet with slaughter and the earth is stained with gore.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.372 (CSEL 23:170lines 372–396–171; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-372)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.397":{"o":"mox currus celeres subiectus deuorat ignis\ncornipedumque pedes gladio truncantur acuto.\nipse regum princeps ferro dat pectus Asurus;\nurbs etiam totis procumbit subruta muris.\ncommunis hic praeda datur uictoribus omnis.\nbis denos hac pugna duces nouemque peremit\nunus ab astrigera signum qui sumpserat aula.\nprotinus adscribit uates populoque uiritim\ndiuidit ablatas tantis pereuntibus urbes\ngentibus. obtentu positas et cardine terrae.\nunde rubet (croceum uenientis flamma diei\ntrans amnem prisco Iordanem nomine dictum\nusque supinatam Chebronis nomine uallem.\nHermonium ad montem. uasto qui uertice surgit,\natque ad Amar pelagus Cheneri et marmora glauca,\nsepositam et Phasgam dudumque Asedota uocatum.\nsolus conpositis restabat praeda duellis\nBassamum rector (Ocum dixere uetusti),\ngigantum uirtute ferox, quos rector agebat.\nAstarota cui domus est et sedes in Aedra.\nhuius terra datur tribubus sulcanda duabus\net mediae, dum laeta placet atque herbida uallis,\nRubenae Gadaeque simul sociaeque Manasse.\ncetera partitur sociis dux aequus in omnes.","t":"Soon fire set beneath them devours the swift chariots,\nand the horses’ feet are cut off with the sharp sword.\nThe prince of the kings himself, of Hazor, gives his breast to the sword;\nthe city too falls, undermined with all its walls.\nHere all the plunder is given in common to the victors.\nIn this war he slew twice ten and nine leaders,\nhe alone who had received the sign from the starry hall.\nAt once the prophet records and divides man by man\nthe cities taken from such perishing nations,\nset in the shelter and the pole of the land,\nfrom where the saffron flame of the coming day reddens,\nbeyond the river called by the ancient name of Jordan,\nas far as the sloping valley called by the name of Hebron,\nto Mount Hermon, which rises with vast summit,\nand to the sea of Chinnereth and its grey-green waters,\nand Pisgah set apart and what was long called Ashdoth.\nWhen the wars were settled, one prey alone remained,\nthe ruler of Bashan (the ancients called him Og),\nfierce with the strength of the giants whom he ruled,\nwhose house was Ashtaroth and his seat in Edrei.\nHis land is given to two tribes and a half to plough,\nsince the glad and grassy valley pleased them,\nto Reuben and Gad together and allied Manasseh.\nThe rest the leader divides justly among all the allies.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.397 (CSEL 23:171lines 397–420–172; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-397)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.421":{"o":"accedit regio qua Libanus exit in auras,\net mare Masrefatum fecundaque Sidonis arua.\nLeuitas dominus uillarum nomine priuat.\nBalamus occumbit uentura edicere suetus.\nat socius semperque duci coniuncta Chalebus\ncorda gerens. placido subnixus pectore fatur:\n\"Nota tibi, ductor, animi sententia nostri\ntempore iam ex illo, pariter quo uisere terras\nhostiles missi, cunctis pauitantibus unus\nte socio exprompsi nil posse obsistere nobis;\nquamlibet inmensi facerent noua bella gigantes,\nstare deum contra nostraeque adsistere parti.\nnempe tenes, placidus ut nobis maxima quaeque\npollicitus fuerit senior ac sorte seorsa\nhunc dederit collem mihimet cunctisque meorum.\net nunc, quod bellum Enachina ex gente superstat,\ncognata cum pube geram. non degener aeuo.\netsi quater denus bis iam mihi uoluitur annus.\nordinis esto memor sedemque adlega petenti.\nquam propriam teneant nati prolesque natorum.\"\ntalia poscentem Chebrono in colle locauit.\nadditur et magnis haut decolor urbibus Ardoc.\nhis actis properat Dabiram exscindere gentem,\ncuius opus suetum dociles conscribere fatus\net elementa graues pueris dictare magistros.","t":"The region is added where Lebanon rises into the air,\nand the sea of Misrephoth and the fertile fields of Sidon.\nThe Lord withholds the title of estates from the Levites.\nBalaam falls, he who used to foretell the future.\nBut Caleb, his companion, whose heart was always joined\nto the leader, speaks, relying on a calm breast:\n“You know, leader, the judgment of my mind\nfrom that time when, sent together to see the enemy’s lands,\nwhile all trembled, I alone, with you as partner,\ndeclared that nothing could stand against us;\nhowever immense the giants who might wage new wars,\nGod stood against them and helped our side.\nSurely you remember how the old man graciously\npromised us all the greatest things and by a separate lot\ngave this hill to me and all mine.\nAnd now, since war with the race of Anak remains,\nI will wage it with my kindred youth, not degenerate with age,\nthough twice forty years are now rolling for me.\nRemember the order and assign the seat to me who ask it,\nfor my sons and my sons’ offspring to hold as their own.”\nTo him, asking this, he gave the hill of Hebron,\nand Arba, no less than great cities, is added.\nThese things done, he hastens to destroy the people of Debir,\nwhose usual work was to write learned speech\nand for grave masters to dictate the letters to boys.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.421 (CSEL 23:172lines 421–445–173; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-421)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.446":{"o":"elicit ille uirum promissae ad foedera, natae.\nprompta cui uirtus animusque in pectore praesens.\nomnibus interea populis seruire coactis\nIebusaea manus patriis non cessat ab aruis.\nChananno perstante domi tectisque parentum.\ncetera ter ternis tribubus metata traduntur.\nLeuitis merito bis ternas segregat urbes\nperfugioque dedit factum noxale timenti,\nne poena adficeret admissa piacula casu.\nquae proceres mandat librata. expendere lance,\nut facto grauiore reum nex congrua damnet.\nipse quater denas Leuitis deuouet urbes\nfenoris exsortes. tum plebis consona uoce\naccipit Ephremum uentura in tempora collem.\nurbe super iuncta, mansit cui Thamnatha nomen.\ncondidit hic cultros dura de caute paratos,\nde quibus obscenos dictu truncauerat artus.\nomnibus explicitis socios remeare uolentes\nIordanis trans stagna uagi his inbuit orsis:\nGrata manus nobis sanctoque electa tonanti\nfortibus e factis pariles meruistis honores,\nquos dedit omnipotens cunctis. qui collibus istis\nconposuere domus. et nunc remeate laetantes.\nillud pro cunctis repetens uos saepe monebo.","t":"He calls out a man for the covenant of the promised daughter,\none whose valour is ready and whose courage is present in his breast.\nMeanwhile, though all the peoples were compelled to serve,\nthe Jebusite band does not leave its ancestral fields,\nand the Canaanite remains at home in the houses of his fathers.\nThe rest of the land, measured out, is given to three times three tribes.\nFor the Levites he rightly sets apart twice three cities\nand gave them as a refuge to one who feared for a guilty deed,\nlest punishment should strike faults committed by chance;\nthese he charges the chiefs to weigh with balanced scale,\nso that a fitting death may condemn the guilty for a graver deed.\nHe himself assigns four times ten cities to the Levites,\nfree from tribute. Then, by the harmonious voice of the people,\nhe receives the hill country of Ephraim for times to come,\nwith a city joined above it whose name remained Timnath.\nHere he laid up the knives made of hard stone,\nwith which he had cut the parts shameful to name.\nAll this completed, to the allies wishing to return\nbeyond the waters of the wandering Jordan he gave these words:\n“Band pleasing to us and chosen by the holy Thunderer,\nby your brave deeds you have earned equal honours,\nwhich the Almighty has given to all who on these hills\nhave built their houses. And now return rejoicing.\nThis above all I will repeat and often warn you:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.446 (CSEL 23:173lines 446–469–174; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-446)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.470":{"o":"ut memores sitis, quanta uos cura perennis\ndiligat omnipotens. dederit quae praemia uobis;\net quae constituit sanctis facienda loquellis.\nnoritis seruanda fore. quia uita perennis.\nhis quaeritur rebus, maneat si gratia legis\ninoffensa dei semperque in pectore degat.\nergo deus dominusque simul timeatur, ametur\nuisceribus totis totoque e pectore nostro:\nsic fiet ut uestra pressentur sub iuga gentes. *\nhaec ubi dicta dedit cunctisque optando poposcit.\nilli iter incoeptum peragunt fluuioque propinquant\nconspicuamque locant turrito culmine molem.\nquae tribubus ubi facta nouem monumenta patescunt.\nceu domini inmemores cupiunt conlidere bello:\nante tamen missi, certum qui noscere possent;\nPhineus legitur, Aaronis candidus heres,\natque decem primi tribuum meritoque locoque,\nqui memores mandata simul procerisque patrumque\neuoluunt, maestis quamquam nil criminis esset:\n\"Dicite, quae fuerit substructi cura sacelli?\nexcideritne deus? sanctaene oracula legis?\nergone deserto gentilia sacra tonante.\nquaeritis et uiui functorum conditis aras?\nnumquid parua dedit cunctis monumenta Phagorus,\nexitio informi misero damnatus in ausu?","t":"be mindful with how great an everlasting care\nthe Almighty loves you and what rewards he has given you,\nand know that what he has established by his holy words\nmust be kept, because everlasting life\nis sought by these things, if the grace of the law remains\nunbroken with God and always lives in the heart.\nSo let God and the Lord be both feared and loved\nwith all our inward parts and all our heart:\nso it will be that nations are pressed under your yoke.”\nWhen he had said these words and wished all well,\nthey complete the journey they had begun and approach the river,\nand set up a conspicuous mass with a towering top.\nWhen this monument became known to the nine tribes,\nthey wish to clash with them in war as men forgetful of the Lord;\nyet first men were sent who could learn the truth:\nPhinehas is chosen, the shining heir of Aaron,\nand ten leaders of the tribes, first in merit and place,\nwho, mindful, together set out the commands of the chief and the fathers,\nthough the sorrowful men had committed no crime:\n“Say, what was the purpose of the shrine you have built?\nHas God slipped from your minds? The oracles of the holy law?\nHave you then deserted the Thunderer to seek gentile rites,\nand do you, living, found altars of the dead?\nDid Peor give little warning to all,\ncondemned to hideous destruction for its wretched daring?","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.470 (CSEL 23:174lines 470–494–175; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-470)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.495":{"o":"haec odio in gentes mandant populosque patresque,\ndum bellum sociale parant atque arma resumunt.\nnumquid parua data sunt uobis iugera terrae.\nquae placuit uobis? aut (si) producere fines\nac proferre libet, de nostris sumite campis:\ndum modo sidereo semper sacrata tonanti\nsit synagoga parens, nobis nec dissona distet.\nconmoneat sensus factum dementis Achari,\nidola cum rigidis formauit mortua saxis.\nnonne malum praeceps contracti criminis egit.\nunius ob noxam populum qui perculit ultor?\"\nilli humiles blandis respondent talia dictis:\n\"Nos colimus. qui cuncta pio sermone creauit\nquique uidet tacitis haerentia crimina fibris;\nnec opus, ut testes ad publica facta uocemus:\nipse deus nouit. quae causa extruxerit aram.\nnobis cura fuit condendae ad flumina molis\nperpetuae, ut captae maneat testatio terrae:\nne quandoque fiant uenturae obprobria proli\ncredentum sancti diuisa oracula templi.\nnescimus uanis oblata libamina diuis.\nne uero. ne tanta pios dementia mutet.\nut placeat quidquam, domino quod displicet alto!\nilla Nobis tantum mactare ac sternere fas est.\nquae sueuit synagoga deo libare perenni.\"","t":"These things they command, in their hatred of foreign nations, to peoples and fathers,\nwhile they prepare a war among allies and take up arms again.\n“Have you been given too few acres of land,\nthe land that pleased you? Or if you wish to extend\nand advance your borders, take from our plains,\nprovided that the congregation, ever consecrated to the starry Thunderer,\nis our common parent and does not stand apart from us in discord.\nLet the deed of mad Achan warn your minds,\nwhen he formed dead idols from rigid stones.\nDid not the headlong evil of the crime he contracted drive on the avenger,\nwho struck the people for the guilt of one?”\nThey humbly answer with gentle words:\n“We worship him who created all things by his holy word\nand who sees the crimes that cling to silent hearts;\nnor do we need to call witnesses to public deeds:\nGod himself knows why we built the altar.\nOur care was to build a lasting mass by the river,\nso that it might remain a testimony to the conquered land,\nlest the divided oracles of the holy temple\nshould ever become a reproach to the coming offspring of believers.\nWe know of no offerings made to vain gods.\nNo indeed, may no such madness change the pious,\nthat anything should please us that displeases the Lord on high!\nFor us it is right to sacrifice and lay out only\nwhat the congregation has been used to offer to the everlasting God.”","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.495 (CSEL 23:175lines 495–519; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-495)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.51":{"o":"uel cum per uacuas heremi squalentis harenas.\ncaelicolum uictum niualis manna parauit.\nuel cum terrifici reges. trans flumina rauca\nIordanis positi, uestro mucrone cadentes\nliquerunt patrias uobis uincentibus urbes.\nquid moror? obsedit mentes et pectora pallor;\nnullus tela capit curuo nec fidit in arcu:\nnon pedes aeratas acies in proelia denset:\nnon quadriga uolat ferrato bellica curru.\nuobis uera datur. iuuenes. uictoria, uobis\nsidereo ab rege, qui terram fecit et astra.\net nunc, o iuuenes, iuratis dicite uerbis.\nut, cum depositis procumbent moenia muris.\nsit salus in uestris conposta et credita dextris,\nne captiua fiam socia cum stirpe domuque\npatribus et caris. quorum me cura fatigat.\"\nadnuitur cunctosque domi seruare iubetur.\nuiuere quos cupiat secum, atque indice signo\nspartea uincla sua suspendat cauta fenestra:\nut, cum per captam legio se fuderit urbem.\ninlita puniceo cernatur lana colore.\nilli alacres superant fossas et tuta capessunt\nAisamo in colle, trina sub luce latentes.\nne, dum praepropero repetunt sua castra recursu.\nincurrant aliquos diuersa ex parte sequentes.","t":"or when, through the empty sands of the barren wilderness,\nsnowy manna supplied you the food of heaven’s dwellers,\nor when terrifying kings, set beyond the roaring streams\nof the Jordan, falling by your blade,\nleft their native cities to you as victors.\nWhy do I delay? Pallor has besieged minds and hearts;\nno one takes up weapons or trusts in the curved bow;\nno foot-soldier thickens bronze ranks for battle;\nno war chariot flies with its iron-clad car.\nTo you, young men, true victory is given, to you,\nfrom the starry King who made earth and stars.\nAnd now, young men, say with sworn words\nthat, when the walls are laid low and fall,\nmy safety shall be placed and entrusted in your right hands,\nlest I become a captive with my kin and house,\nmy fathers and dear ones, for whom my care wearies me.”\nIt is agreed, and she is told to keep at home\nall whom she wishes to live with her, and, as a sign,\nto hang her cord of broom carefully from her window,\nso that, when the legion has poured through the captured city,\nthe wool dyed with crimson colour may be seen.\nThey eagerly cross the ditches and reach safety\non a hill, hiding for three days,\nlest, while they hurry back to their camp,\nthey run into pursuers coming from another side.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.51 (CSEL 23:158lines 51–75–159; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-51)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.520":{"o":"his dictis manifesta fides placidique tribuni\nlaudibus ornatos meritis liquere laetantes.\ninterea longo uates iam senior aeuo\naccitum populum. monitis fidelibus inplet:\n\"Cernitis ut, ciues, me iam longaeua senectus\ningrauet et motu tardentur membra supremo:\net nunc uel moneo, uel, si non displicet, oro,\nut uestra sit uita deus, lex, semper in ore,\net quae praestiterit nobis cunctisque parentum\npatribus, euoluat memori sententia fatu.\nnamque feras gentes, quarum nunc regna tenetis,\nnon gladius domuit noster, non perculit arcus.\nsed dominus, qui signa pius agmenque praeiuit,\npraegrediens nosmet, quotiens fit comminus hostis;\nqui populos tantos gelida formidine missa\nsubdidit ac reges uoluit succumbere nobis;\nquique parans uacuos nostris cultoribus agros\npost bellum atque arma feras prorumpere iussit.\nut reliquam partem conductis morsibus essent.\nergo agite et pontum siccatum discite uobis\ninsuetoque modo fluuium sistente meatu\nconcretum, tenuis si nondum desuper unda\nstringitur in glaciem calidum durata per aestum:\nut deus inmensi per saecla ingentia facti\naccipiat meritas laudes. dum consona plausu\nlingua canit nil esse deum sublimius uno.","t":"With these words their good faith was manifest, and the calm tribunes\nleft them rejoicing, honoured with deserved praise.\nMeanwhile the prophet, now old with long age,\nfills the people he has summoned with faithful warnings:\n“You see, citizens, how long old age now\nweighs me down and my limbs are slowed by their last movement.\nAnd now I either warn you or, if you do not mind, I beg you,\nthat God and the law be your life, ever in your mouth,\nand that your mind recount with mindful speech\nwhat he has granted us and all the fathers of our parents.\nFor the fierce nations whose realms you now hold\nour sword did not tame, our bow did not strike,\nbut the Lord, who graciously went before the standards and the column,\ngoing before us whenever the enemy is near;\nwho subdued such peoples, sending cold fear,\nand willed that kings should yield to us;\nand who, preparing fields empty for our tillers,\nafter war and arms bade wild creatures burst forth,\nto take the remaining part with their hired stings.\nCome then, and learn that the sea was dried for you\nand the river halted in an unaccustomed way,\nfrozen, though the thin water above was not usually\nbound into ice and hardened in the summer heat;\nso that God may receive through mighty ages the praise\ndue for his immense deed, while the tongue sings in harmonious applause\nthat nothing is more sublime than the one God.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.520 (CSEL 23:175lines 520–545–176; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-520)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.546":{"o":"pergite, quo ducit docilis sententia legis:\nne uariis actus sub flexibus ambitus erret.\nidola nulla uirum deuicta ex gente supersint.\nsit dominus uobis deus arduus et deus ingens.\nquod si cassa placent et mortua numina cordi.\ndicite. discedam, noceant ne uana colentes.\neligite, o cuncti, quae sunt accommoda uobis.\ndeserit omnipotens refugas longeque refutat,\nqui sub pestiferi quondam monumenta Balacis\nomnia laeta magis uati despondit amico.\nadspice, quae teneas, quam fortes fuderis hostes\net quam magna deus cunctis fidelibus addat.\nhunc colite et ualidas legi conectite mentes.\"\nconsona respondit populi sententia uati:\n\"Accipe. magne ducum, quae sit fiducia nobis;\nillum, Niliacis qui nos educere terris\ndignatus. colimus solumque agnoscimus omnes\nesse deum caeli terraeque et marmoris alti,\nquo mandante maris patuerunt aequora Rubri\net qui signa dedit nostris percongrua uotis.\nqui gentes nostris subiecit gressibus omnes.\"\nhaec ubi disseruit populus fidelia fatu.\npagina sanctificis legitur laudabilis orsis.\nipse senex cautem terebinthi in codice ponit.\nut sit perpetuae testis noscenda fidei.","t":"Go where the teachable judgment of the law leads,\nlest ambition, driven through varied turnings, go astray.\nLet no idols of the men of the conquered nation remain.\nLet the Lord be your God, lofty God and mighty God.\nBut if empty things and dead divinities please your heart,\nsay so; I will depart, lest worshippers of vanities harm me.\nChoose, all of you, what suits you.\nThe Almighty deserts those who desert him and rejects them far away,\nhe who once, at the monuments of baneful Balak,\npromised all glad things instead through the friendly prophet.\nLook at what you hold, what strong enemies you have routed,\nand how great the things God adds to all the faithful.\nWorship him and bind strong minds to the law.”\nThe harmonious judgment of the people answered the prophet:\n“Hear, greatest of leaders, what our confidence is:\nhim who deigned to lead us out of the lands of the Nile\nwe worship, and all acknowledge him alone\nto be God of heaven and earth and of the deep sea,\nat whose command the waters of the Red Sea lay open,\nand who gave signs well suited to our prayers,\nwho has subjected all nations to our steps.”\nWhen the people had spoken these faithful words,\na praiseworthy page of holy words is read.\nThe old man himself sets a stone under the terebinth, recording it in the book,\nto be known as a witness of everlasting faith.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.546 (CSEL 23:176lines 546–570–177; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-546)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.571":{"o":"expletis igitur uitae dux optimus actis.\ncuius uita fuit centum distenta per annos\natque decem, functus merito dat membra sepulchro\nEphremo in colle, fuerat qui sedibus aptus.\niustitiae ob meritum nulli defletur amico:\ncultellos tantum proceris iunxere fauillis,\ncircumcisa quibus fuerat Iudaea iuuentus,\nossaque in Sicimis Iosepi inposta. quiescunt,\nin quibus et membra fuerant tumulata Iacobi.\npost hunc terrenos linquit Eleazarus actus.\nergo uiris tantis post acta insignia functis,\ngentiles populus cultus atque idola sumpsit,\ndefugiens dominum terrae dominumque caelorum.\nsubditur Eglomum quae propter facta tyrannis,\natque quaterdenos uixit captiuus in annos.","t":"So, the deeds of his life completed, the best of leaders,\nwhose life was stretched through a hundred\nand ten years, having died, gives his limbs, as he deserved, to a tomb\non the hill of Ephraim, which had been suited to his dwelling.\nFor the merit of his justice he is mourned by no friend,\nonly they joined to the chief’s ashes the knives\nwith which the Jewish youth had been circumcised;\nand the bones of Joseph, laid at Shechem, rest\nwhere the limbs of Jacob too had been buried.\nAfter him Eleazar leaves the deeds of earth.\nSo, after such great men had died after notable deeds,\nthe people took up gentile cults and idols,\nfleeing the Lord of the earth and Lord of the heavens.\nFor these deeds it is made subject to the tyrant Eglon\nand lived captive for forty years.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.571 (CSEL 23:177lines 571–585–178; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-571)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6.76":{"o":"at meretrix secura sui mandata facessit.\nnec non et princeps, iuuenum sententia doctus.\nraptim castra mouet Sattina ex ualle proculque\naduolat atque animos palpat dans otia cunctis\ntrina die; scribasque instigat dicere plebi.\nut, cum sacratam praeferri adspexerit arcam\natque sacerdotes post altar pergere celsum.\nsigna leuent alacres promptim spatiumque relinquant.\nmilia quod sensim duo conpleat: atque fluentis\ncorpora purificent, domini ante ora locandi.\nHaec inter princeps domini dignatus honore\nemicat, eximio. Moysetis stemmate dignus.\niamque sacerdotes fluuium transmittere iussi\nnuda in primori mergunt uestigia ripa:\ntum bissena tribus dat lectos iussa tribunos.\nqui medio e fundo legerent candentia saxa,\ncalculus ut madidis bissenus demptus harenis.\nflumina testetur populo siccata uianti.\nconsimiles etiam cautes numeroque modoque\nin medio posuere sinu. quas mobilis unda\ndiluit et rauco perfundit lubrica fluctu.\nat Rubena tribus nudatum transmeat amnem:\nquam Gada subsequitur. media properante Manasse.\nquadraginta uirum mittentes milia bello.","t":"But the harlot, secure, carries out his commands.\nAnd the chief too, taught by the young men’s report,\nquickly moves the camp from the valley of Shittim and from afar\nhastens on, and soothes their minds, giving rest to all\nfor three days, and urges the scribes to tell the people\nthat when they see the sacred ark carried before them\nand the priests going on behind the lofty altar,\nthey should promptly and eagerly raise the standards and leave a space\nthat comes to two thousand cubits, and should purify\ntheir bodies in streams, to be set before the Lord’s face.\nMeanwhile the chief, honoured with the Lord’s favour,\nshines forth, outstanding, worthy of the line of Moses.\nAnd now the priests, commanded to cross the river,\ndip their bare feet at the edge of the bank;\nthen the command gives twelve chosen tribunes to the tribes,\nto gather shining stones from the middle of the bed,\nso that twelve pebbles taken from the wet sands\nmight witness to the people that the streams were dried for them as they passed.\nThey also set like stones, in number and manner,\nin the middle of the channel, which the moving wave\nwashes and floods, slippery, with its roaring current.\nBut the tribe of Reuben crosses the bared river,\nfollowed by Gad, with the half of Manasseh hastening,\nsending forty thousand men to war.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 6.76 (CSEL 23:159lines 76–99–160; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/6-76)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.1":{"o":"Postquam conspicuo Iesus decesserat actu\nreddideratque deus famulum post bella quieti,\nconfestim Iudaea tumens sibi poscere regem.\nincipit et dominum, quae sit sententia, poscit,\nut Chanana manus, quae nondum subdita bello\naemula pugnaci uersabat corda tumultu,\nsuesceret imperiis excusso accedere ferro.\ninditur his Iudas, qui fratre cum Simeone\ninlata extinguit confestim pugna Chananos.\ncum quibus admixta sternuntur caede Pherezi:\nmilia ferme decem fuso cecidere cruore.\nipse caput belli, magnorum causa malorum,\ndux fuit et princeps Donibezecus: aberrans\ncorripitur meritasque luit pro crimine poenas.\nnam manibus pedibusque simul sine more recisis\nuberibus maeret lacrimis, quos non habet, artus,\nquosue gerit, simili dum perfurit inprobus actu:\nseptuaginta prius truncarat corpora regum.\nergo dedit poenas, quas fecerat, et mala pendens\ncongrua decessit Solymis regnumque reliquit.\nipsa etiam Ieru capitur flammisque perusta\nconcidit, ingenti propere conuulsa ruina;\npost Chebrona ruit et Chananaea iuuentus.\nquae iuga celsa tenet surgentis in aethera terrae.\nDabira post capitur trepido fecunda duello.","t":"After Joshua had departed with conspicuous deeds\nand God had given his servant rest after his wars,\nat once Judea, swelling, begins to ask for a king for itself\nand asks the Lord what his judgment is,\nso that the Canaanite band, not yet subdued in war,\nwhich was stirring rival hearts in warlike tumult,\nmight learn to submit to commands, the sword struck from its hand.\nJudah is set over them, who with his brother Simeon\nat once destroys the Canaanites in the battle they began,\nand with them the Perizzites are laid low in mingled slaughter:\nnearly ten thousand fell, their blood poured out.\nThe head of the war himself, the cause of great evils,\nwas the leader and prince Adoni-bezek; wandering off,\nhe is caught and pays the deserved penalty for his crime.\nFor, with hands and feet cut off together against all custom,\nhe mourns with abundant tears the limbs he no longer has,\nor those he has, while the wicked man rages in the same way:\nhe had once maimed the bodies of seventy kings.\nSo he paid the penalty he had inflicted, and, suffering fitting evils,\nhe died at Jerusalem and left his kingdom.\nJerusalem itself is taken and, burned by flames,\nfalls, quickly torn down in a mighty ruin;\nafter it Hebron falls and the Canaanite youth\nthat holds the lofty ridges of the land rising to heaven.\nDebir is taken afterwards, rich in its fearful war,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.1 (CSEL 23:180lines 1–25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-1)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.102":{"o":"quo abiit. profana, deus, qui dura gementem\nNiliacas inter gentes Pharaone tyranno.\nper mare diuiduum, heremi per torrida saxa\nexhibuit tantasque dedit tibi cedere gentes,\nut uictrix totisque simul perfuncta duellis\ndifflueres, alios ritus et sacra dicares,\nquam quae sidereae dederat tibi regula legis.\necce tenes terram, uatibus iurata sacratis\nquae fuit atque datur lectae per saecula plebi.\ntestamenta mei non sunt iam cognita uerbi,\nquo mixta populis gentilibus ac male suadis\nexoras mutos, fabrorum pignora, diuos.\nquin potius uestrae fuerat res congrua uitae\nomnia conterere fictosque auertere cultus.\nsed quia nulla meis data est fiducia iussis,\nuictis regna dabo; uos rursum sub iuga mittam,\nut similes sitis diuis, quos creditis esse.\"\nquae postquam Iudaea dei mandata recepit,\nuertitur ad gemitus et tristia pectora tundens\nuberibus lacrimis ueniam rogat; nec mora uotis\nulla fuit, sanctaque dei per templa petentes\nprosequitur pietas, quae maestis laeta resignat.\ndispersus igitur populus ad nota recursat\ntecta libens locoque dedit plorabile nomen. ***\nRursus corda labant, redeunt ad crimina sueta\nBachalimque colunt; domino per talia laeso\nsustentant meritas mentita ob numina poenas.","t":"Where has God gone, profane one, who, when you groaned in hardships\namong the nations of the Nile under the tyrant Pharaoh,\nbrought you through the divided sea and the torrid rocks of the wilderness\nand made such nations yield to you,\nthat now, victorious and finished with all your wars,\nyou should melt away and dedicate other rites and sacred things\nthan those the rule of the starry law had given you?\nSee, you hold the land that was sworn to the sacred prophets\nand is given to the chosen people through the ages.\nThe covenants of my word are no longer known,\nsince, mingled with gentile peoples and evil counsellors,\nyou entreat dumb gods, the offspring of craftsmen.\nRather it would have befitted your life\nto crush them all and turn away from false cults.\nBut because no trust has been given to my commands,\nI will give the realm to the conquered; I will send you under the yoke again,\nso that you may be like the gods you believe exist.”\nAfter Judea received these commands of God,\nit turns to groaning and, beating its sad breast,\nasks pardon with abundant tears; nor was there\nany delay to their prayers, and mercy follows them\nas they seek God through his holy temples, gladly releasing the sorrowful.\nSo the scattered people gladly run back to their known homes\nand gave the place a name of weeping. …\nAgain their hearts waver; they return to their accustomed crimes\nand worship the Baals; the Lord being wronged by such things,\nthey suffer the penalties deserved for their lying divinities.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.102 (CSEL 23:181lines 102–128–183; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-102)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.129":{"o":"subduntur dominis, quos uicerat — heu dolor atrox! —\nnec miseris quoquam respondet conscia uirtus.\nlenitur mox ira dei proceresque creantur.\nqui male praecipiti populum rapuere periclo.\nhis quoque despectis rabies consueta resurgit,\nnec solos sociant ritus: consortia miscent\nintonsosque dicant lucos arasque reformant.\nnec tamen inlaesa procedunt facta: premuntur\nseruitio regemque tremunt Achusa Rathomum,\nqui tum iura dabat, geminos qua diuidit amnes\ninsula ab Assyrio disiungens limite Persas.\nsubiectos cohibens annis redeuntibus octo.\ntandem congemuit merito Iudaea reatu\nac dominum prostrata rogat; qui fractus amico\nnumine restituit trepidis solamina uitae:\nnam missus saluator adest populoque salutem\nexhibet ac maestas deterget pectore curas\nbellator. Ceneza satus, Gothozelus heros.\nChalebo cum fratre uigens, sed iunior aeuo.\nspiritus hunc domini uirtutis dote cluentem\nextulit et celsa sublimem sede locauit.\nhic ualidus fidusque deo discrimina uictis\nabstulit et regem pauidum seruire coegit.\ntalibus in rebus multos Iudaea per annos\neualuit nullique fuit obnoxia fraudi.","t":"They are made subject to masters whom they had conquered — alas, cruel grief! —\nnor does conscious valour answer the wretched anywhere.\nSoon the anger of God is softened and chiefs are raised up,\nwho snatched the people from headlong peril.\nThese too despised, the accustomed madness rises again;\nnor do they share rites only: they intermarry,\ndedicate unshorn groves and restore altars.\nYet their deeds do not go unpunished: they are pressed\ninto slavery and tremble before King Cushan-rishathaim,\nwho then gave laws where the island between the twin rivers\nparts the Persians from the Assyrian border,\nholding them subject for eight returning years.\nAt last Judea groaned at its deserved guilt\nand prostrate entreats the Lord, who, softened, in his kindly\ndivinity restored to the fearful the comforts of life;\nfor a saviour is sent and comes and brings salvation\nto the people and wipes sad cares from their breasts,\na warrior, son of Kenaz, the hero Othniel,\nstrong with his brother Caleb, but younger in age.\nThe Spirit of the Lord raised him, famed for the gift of courage,\nand set him on high in a lofty seat.\nHe, strong and faithful to God, took away the dangers from the defeated\nand forced the fearful king to serve.\nIn such things Judea prevailed for many years\nand was exposed to no deceit.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.129 (CSEL 23:183lines 129–153–184; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-129)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.154":{"o":"sed postquam princeps decurso tramite uitae\ndecubuit, ritus ueteres plebs laeta reformat;\ntempora mutantur bellumque et seruitus instant,\nconcurrunt populi, quos rex Eglonus agebat,\nAmmones Moabique simul fortesque Amalechi,\nHebraeamque aciem ferrata grandine fundunt,\nipsaque Phoenicum uictores sceptra reuellunt.\ndeduntur proceri, qui mortem euadere quaerunt.\nperpessique decem dominos ac messibus octo.\nhis inflexa malis natio, quae fecerat, horret\ndeposcitque deum, qui solus crimina donat.\nilicet adlegitur, qui sceptrum sumat, Aotus:\nhic utraque manu conitens robore dextrae\ndegenerem nullo sensit sub pondere laeuam.\nis cum uictori sociorum munera ferret,\nancipiti gladio furtim sub ueste recinctus\nadmissusque, dehinc regem subnixus adorat\ninualidum; nam membra toris uacuata lababant\nin tantum, ut modico posset procumbere pulsu.\nadfirmat superesse sibi, quae dicere uellet\nconfertamque rogat comitum discedere turbam.\nadnuitur, mediaque sedens dux barbarus aula\nsurgit et admotus toto se corpore iungit ;\nac postquam longe fidorum abscesserat agmen,\neripit a femine gladium, quem ueste tegebat,\nperque uterum regis capulo tenus abdidit omnem.","t":"But after the chief, his course of life run, lay down,\nthe people gladly restore the old rites;\ntimes change, and war and slavery press upon them;\nthe peoples whom King Eglon led run together,\nthe Ammonites and the Moabites and the strong Amalekites,\nand rout the Hebrew line with a hail of iron,\nand the victors tear away the very sceptres of the land.\nThose who seek to escape death are handed over to the chief,\nand suffered masters for ten and eight harvests.\nBent by these evils, the nation shudders at what it had done\nand calls on God, who alone forgives crimes.\nAt once Ehud is chosen to take the sceptre;\nhe, strong with the strength of the right hand in both hands,\nfelt his left in no way weaker under any weight.\nWhen he was bringing his people’s tribute to the victor,\nsecretly girded under his garment with a two-edged sword,\nand was admitted, he then worships the king, relying on his weakness;\nfor his limbs, emptied of muscle, tottered\nso much that he could fall at a slight push.\nHe declares that he has something he wishes to say\nand asks the thronging crowd of companions to withdraw.\nIt is granted, and the barbarian leader, sitting in the middle of the hall,\nrises and, drawing near, joins himself with his whole body;\nand after the column of trusted men had gone far off,\nhe snatches from his thigh the sword he hid under his garment\nand buried it whole, up to the hilt, in the king’s belly.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.154 (CSEL 23:184lines 154–179–185; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-154)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.180":{"o":"proripit hinc sese ferrumque in uulnere linquit.\nlimina concludens proceris postesque superbos.\nat famuli dominum, prodire ad munia suetum,\nmirantur tacita solum consistere cella,\nuentris onus forsam subducta effundere ab aluo\nsecretum, sociae dum uitat lumina turbae.\niamque memor facti socios in bella lacessit\nterribilesque tubae sonitus permiscet Aodus:\nraptim signa mouens Iordanis litora claudit,\nne quisquam breuibus ualeat transire fluentis.\ncumque decem duro fudisset milia ferro.\nreddidit amissum sociis nomenque decusque.\nexin bella silent, nullum dant proelia motum\nbisque quater denos cessarunt tela per annos.\npost haec Semegras parili uirtute superbus\nIudaeos rexit populos clarosque reliquit.\nsed dum securis pascuntur gaudia rebus.\nfastidit gens torua deum cassoque precatu\nnuminibus miseris. quas uicit. consecrat aras.\nergo exercentur poenis et crimine digna\nsupplicia expendunt. Iabinus regius heros\nChananaea manu ex Asuris pube coacta,\nSisara militiae ductore et principe pugnat\nferratasque acies nongentis curribus implet.","t":"Then he rushes out and leaves the iron in the wound,\nshutting the chief’s doors and proud doorposts.\nBut the servants wonder that their lord, used to coming out to his duties,\nremains alone in his silent chamber,\nperhaps relieving the burden of his belly\nin secret, while he avoids the eyes of the company.\nAnd now Ehud, mindful of the deed, rouses his allies to war\nand mingles the terrible sounds of the trumpet;\nmoving the standards quickly, he closes the banks of the Jordan,\nlest anyone be able to cross by the shallow streams.\nAnd when he had routed ten thousand with hard iron,\nhe restored their lost name and honour to his allies.\nThen wars are silent, battles stir nothing,\nand weapons rested for twice four times ten years.\nAfter this Shamgar, proud with like valour,\nruled the Jewish peoples and left them famous.\nBut while their joys are fed on secure prosperity,\nthe grim nation spurns God, and with empty prayer\nconsecrates altars to the wretched divinities of those it had conquered.\nSo they are chastised with penalties and suffer punishments\nworthy of their crime. Jabin, the royal hero,\nhaving gathered the youth of Hazor in a Canaanite band,\nfights with Sisera as leader and prince of his army\nand fills his iron ranks with nine hundred chariots.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.180 (CSEL 23:185lines 180–203–186; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-180)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.204":{"o":"et licet inmensas fido trahat agmine turmas,\nplus terror quaesitus agit: namque axe uolanti\nquadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum.\nuincuntur Solymi passim grassante Chanano\nbisque decem ducunt per tristia quaeque decembres.\ntempore non alio prophetis Debbora regnat.\ncui coniunx Lapidotha fuit, Metibile sedes.\niura ferens populis adclinis caudice palmae.\neuocat haec procerem Baracum ex urbe Cadessa\net monitis inbuta dei bis milia quina\nSisareos mandat cuneos consistere contra.\nille timet sociamque rogat in bella prophetin.\nnescius ingentis coepti sibi defore palmam.\nsi pariter ad castra uocet. cui gloria prima est:\nat mulier solo sexu noua munia sumit\ndelectasque mouet per barbara culta cohortes\nCisonem ad fluuium. ueniens qui gurgite prono\nsaxa rotat ripasque tumens euincere gaudet.\niamque intra iactum teli uenere phalanges.\ncum dominus. cui uirtus inest. qua sidera mutat\nquaque tremunt terrae. qua fulmen nubibus ardet.\nqua monet incertum refugo molimine pontum.\nterrore inmisso Sisaram fugat; is male praeceps\ndimittit currus et deuia quaeque capessens\ncasuram medio liquit certamine pubem.","t":"And though he draws immense squadrons in a faithful column,\nthe terror he sought does more: for, with flying axle,\nthe hoof shakes the crumbling plain with four-footed sound.\nThe men of Jerusalem are defeated everywhere as the Canaanite rages,\nand they spend twice ten Decembers in every sorrow.\nAt that very time Deborah reigns as prophetess,\nwhose husband was Lappidoth,\ngiving laws to the peoples as she leaned on the trunk of a palm.\nShe calls the chief Barak from the city of Kedesh\nand, taught by God’s warnings, orders twice five thousand\nto stand against Sisera’s companies.\nHe fears and asks the prophetess as his ally in the war,\nnot knowing that the palm of the great undertaking would be denied him\nif he called with him to the camp one to whom the first glory belonged;\nbut the woman, alone of her sex, takes up new duties\nand moves the chosen cohorts through the barbarians’ fields\nto the river Kishon, which, coming with headlong flood,\nrolls rocks and, swelling, delights to overcome its banks.\nAnd now the phalanxes had come within a spear’s throw,\nwhen the Lord, in whom is the power by which he changes the stars\nand the lands tremble, by which the lightning burns in the clouds,\nby which he moves the uncertain sea with its ebbing force,\nsent terror and put Sisera to flight; he, headlong in his ruin,\nabandons his chariots and, taking every byway,\nleft the youth to fall in the middle of the contest.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.204 (CSEL 23:186lines 204–228–187; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-204)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.229":{"o":"conpulsusque siti. pedibus nam fugerat hostem.\npocula Ioelam poscit; mox pellis opertus\ntegmine femineo festinat uiuere dono;\nsed laudem Ioela uolens fastidit inertem\nperrumpitque uiri properans caua tempora palo.\nqui gelido captus leto fluitante cerebro\nexspirat tenuem transfixo uertice uitam.\ntum psallunt proceres simili sermone tonanti:\n\"Quisque cluis regno, magnas qui temperas urbes,\nqui satrapes uel sceptra geris a rege secunda,\nprocuruus uenerare deum. da digna perenni\ncantica; nam aliud dominus te cogere non uult,\nqui terras, qui saxa quatit, qui flamine pontum\nemouet et tonitru nigrantia nubila sulcat,\nexiguis qui celsa leuat. qui grandia mutat.\ndulcisoni cantate chori. collesque nemusque\nresponsent laudesque nouet tinnitibus aether.\nprotinus et uestrae concordent murmura uoci.\nrespexit dominus, quos liquerat. et male fractis\nreddidit imperium medioque ex hoste recepit.\"\nErgo quater denos requies est mira per annos.\ndumque bonis fruitur, iterum redeunte reatu,\nquae fuerant damnata. placent; namque idola laeti\ninstituunt nomenque dei numenque relinquunt.","t":"And, driven by thirst — for he had fled the enemy on foot —\nhe asks Jael for a drink; soon, covered with a skin,\nhe hastens to save his life by a woman’s gift;\nbut Jael, desiring praise, scorns the coward\nand hastily bursts the hollow temples of the man with a stake.\nHe, seized by cold death, his brain flowing out,\nbreathes out his thin life, his head transfixed.\nThen the chiefs sing psalms to the Thunderer in like words:\n“Whoever is famous in a kingdom, you who govern great cities,\nyou who as satraps hold sceptres second to the king,\nbow down and worship God; give worthy songs\nto the everlasting one; for the Lord does not wish to compel you otherwise,\nhe who shakes the lands and the rocks, who stirs the sea with his blast\nand furrows the black clouds with thunder,\nwho lifts the lowly on high and changes great things.\nSing, sweet-sounding choirs; and let hills and grove\nrespond, and the sky renew praises with ringing,\nand at once let the echoes agree with your voice.\nThe Lord has looked again on those he had left, and to the sorely broken\nhas restored their rule and taken them back from the midst of the enemy.”\nSo there is a wondrous rest for four times ten years.\nAnd while the people enjoys good things, its guilt returning again,\nwhat had been condemned pleases; for they gladly set up idols\nand forsake the name and divinity of God.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.229 (CSEL 23:187lines 229–252–188; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-229)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.253":{"o":"quos dominus laesus septem disperdidit annis\nac pauidos regi iussit seruire Madiae.\nnon ulli dare se campo, non obuia ferre\npectora, sed solis gaudent se condere muris:\ncastra modo celsaque metu munimina firmant,\nfornicibusque cauis absconsi sic quoque pallent.\ntum pecus omne capi, tum praedia cuncta cremari\nincipiunt saeptisque nihil nisi poena relinqui.\nergo inopes famemque simul ferrumque timentes\nad dominum rediere deum, qui supplice turba\nflectitur ac uatem mittit pia iussa ferentem,\nut tandem memores rerum bellique recentis\nrespiciant dominumque colant, qui numine dextro\ndilectum Pharia populum reuocauit ab urbe,\nne rursus, uetitis adolent dum altaria flammis.\nnon semper faciles incurrant numinis iras.\nnuntius inde dei sub quercu sedit amoena\net Gedeum, dum farra terit, his uocibus urget:\n\"Heia age rumpe moras! dominus te sumere iussit\nsceptra. quibus ualeas populum subducere fraudi.\"\nille docet dominum mordacibus undique dictis\ninfensum tristes nimium librare ruinas;\nquin etiam populum, nullo iam milite, fessum\nseque parum fortem non posse insistere bello.","t":"Whom the Lord, wronged, ruined for seven years\nand ordered, in their fear, to serve the king of Midian.\nThey trust themselves to no field, nor face the enemy\nbreast to breast, but rejoice only to hide behind walls;\nthey strengthen camps and lofty defences in fear,\nand, hidden in hollow caves, even so they grow pale.\nThen all their cattle begin to be seized, all their estates burned,\nand nothing but punishment left within their enclosures.\nSo, destitute and fearing hunger and the sword together,\nthey returned to the Lord God, who is moved by the suppliant crowd\nand sends a prophet bearing his holy commands,\nthat at last, mindful of the past and of the recent war,\nthey should look back and worship the Lord, who with favouring power\ncalled back his beloved people from the city of Egypt,\nlest again, while they burn altars with forbidden flames,\nthey always incur the anger of a divinity not easily appeased.\nThen the messenger of God sat under a pleasant oak\nand urges Gideon, while he is threshing grain, with these words:\n“Come now, no more delay! The Lord has ordered you to take\nthe sceptre, with which you may rescue the people from harm.”\nHe argues with biting words on every side that the Lord,\nhostile, is weighing out ruin all too sad,\nand moreover that the people, worn out, with no soldiers now,\nand he himself, not strong enough, could not press on with war.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.253 (CSEL 23:188lines 253–276–189; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-253)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.26":{"o":"praescia doctiloquae numeros euoluere linguae.\nquoque magis celeri lapsarent moenia casu.\nobtulit, ut thalamis natam coniungeret Ascham\nChalebus genitor illi. qui fortibus armis\narduus obliquas uertisset funditus arces.\nilicet incensus promissae ad coniugis usum\nGothoniezelus, proles laudata Genezae;\natque ubi perfectis conpleuit gaudia uotis.\naccipit emeritam grandi cum dote parentis.\nnam praecelsa dedit et collibus ardua curuis\niugera, et optatos lympharum praestitit usus.\ndimissi properant Phoenicum et moenia nota\nlinquentes solas heremi scrutantur harenas.\ndeueniunt celeres, ubi concitus explicat alas\nauster et umbrosis obducit sidera nimbis.\nfit domus ambobus, Aradam quam nomine dicunt.\natque Amalec placitis adscita adiungitur aruis.\ninde petit Iudas Sephetam cultore Chanano\net domitam tristi conpellat nomine terram,\nesset ut extorris et semper facta seorsa.\nsolam non potuit sceptris subiungere Gazam,\nAscalon atque Accaron, nec fines subdere Azoti.\nipse deo fidens dominoque adiunctus aeterno\nsuccessus bello faciles capiebat in omni.","t":"skilled in setting out the numbers of a learned tongue.\nAnd so that its walls might fall the more quickly,\nCaleb her father offered to join his daughter Achsah\nin marriage to whoever, lofty in strong arms,\nshould overturn its frowning citadels from the base.\nAt once, inflamed with desire for the promised wife,\nOthniel, the praised son of Kenaz, takes it,\nand when he had fulfilled his joys with his vows completed,\nhe receives her, well earned, with her father’s great dowry.\nFor he gave very high acres, steep on curving hills,\nand granted the use of the waters she desired.\nDismissed, the Kenites hasten, and leaving the known walls\nof the Phoenicians, search out the lonely sands of the wilderness.\nThey come swiftly where the south wind, roused, spreads its wings\nand covers the stars with shady clouds.\nA home is made for both, which they call by the name Arad,\nand Amalek, admitted, is joined to its pleasant fields.\nThen Judah attacks Zephath, tilled by the Canaanite,\nand calls the subdued land by a sad name,\nthat it might be outcast and always set apart.\nOnly Gaza he could not bring under his sceptre,\nnor Ashkelon and Ekron, nor subdue the borders of Ashdod.\nTrusting in God and joined to the eternal Lord,\nhe won easy successes in every war.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.26 (CSEL 23:180lines 26–49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-26)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.277":{"o":"urgetur seruire deo, qui robore celso\nmultimodas acies inuicto numine terret.\nadnuit imperiis sanctumque ad prandia poscit;\nhaedulus eligitur, solo qui lacte refertus,\nmollior et cunctis, errabat nescius herbae;\nazyma mox niuea de polline facta locantur:\nhaec iuuene admonito uicino infundere saxo\nipse manum tendens summo de uertice uirgae\ncontigit atque uirum medio sermone reliquit.\nergo ubi dispexit Gedeon dominique ministrum\nante oculos uolitasse suos pia mente reuoluit,\ncontinuo domino sacratum suscitat altar\natque loco nomen posuit Pacemque uocauit.\nnocturnis monitus uisis gentilia templa\nsubruit et lucos alta ab radice reuellit.\nac ne profanus genitor contraria ferret\niurgia. per noctem tacitus male condita uertit,\nconstituens iuuenem subuersa ad templa iuuencum.\nquae postquam conperta patent subitaeque ruinae\nflammarunt animos, auctor per moenia facti\nquaeritur et lucos Gedeon strauisse docetur.\nposcitur ut dedat Ioas pro crimine natum.\nqui renuens diuos memorat sibi uindices esse\net debere sua, si sint uiuantque, tueri.","t":"He is urged to serve God, who with lofty strength\nterrifies manifold armies by his unconquered power.\nHe assents to the commands and invites the holy one to a meal;\na kid is chosen, fed only on milk,\nsofter than all, which strayed not knowing grass;\nsoon unleavened loaves made of snowy flour are set out;\nthese, when the young man had been told to pour them out on a nearby rock,\nthe holy one himself, stretching out his hand, touched with the tip of his staff\nand left the man in the middle of his speech.\nSo when Gideon perceived and turned over in his pious mind\nthat the Lord’s minister had flown before his eyes,\nat once he raises an altar consecrated to the Lord\nand gave the place a name and called it Peace.\nWarned by visions in the night, he overthrows the gentile temples\nand tears up the groves from the deep root.\nAnd lest his profane father should raise contrary quarrels,\nhe silently overturns the ill-founded shrines by night,\nsetting a young bullock at the overturned temples.\nAfter this was discovered and the sudden ruin\ninflamed their minds, the author of the deed is sought through the town,\nand they are told that Gideon laid the groves low.\nJoash is asked to hand over his son for the crime;\nrefusing, he reminds them that the gods are their own avengers\nand ought to protect what is theirs, if they exist and live.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.277 (CSEL 23:189lines 277–300–190; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-277)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.301":{"o":"spiritus hic domini Gedeonem ad proelia firmat,\nclassica iamque sonant, dat cornea. bucina signum.\noratur dominus, canenti ut uellere lanae\ncaelestes fluitent nocturno in tempore rores:\nnec mora, permaduit ac peluem pressa repleuit;\ninde aliud posuit rursus. terramque madentem\nsicca pruinosos nec sensit lana liquores.\nadditur his aliud, bis dena ut milia plebis\natque duo iubeat rursus remeare timentum,\nmilibus inque decem certandi ut summa locetur.\nhanc etiam monitus minuit, ne turba coacta\nrobore fida suo domini non cerneret arma.\nut iuuenum princeps aciem deducit ad amnem,\natque canum ritu fluitantes lambere lymphas\npraecipit, ut socios laetae uirtutis haberet.\nter centum placuere uiri; nam cetera turba\npalma] monstratos non sumpsit languida gustus.\nin sedes] reditura suas ceu nescia pugnae.\nhoc fretus] cuneo bellum tot milibus infert,\nquot numer]are uiri nequeunt, quibus arte magistra\nporrectis] mos est digitis concludere summas:\nhinc] acies equitum mixtis peditumque maniplis,\nillinc] innumeros torua cum mole camellos.","t":"Here the Spirit of the Lord strengthens Gideon for battle,\nand now the clarions sound; the horn trumpet gives the signal.\nThe Lord is asked that on the white fleece of wool\nheavenly dew should flow in the night;\nwithout delay it was soaked and, wrung out, filled a basin;\nthen he set another out again, and the dry wool\ndid not feel the frosty moisture, though the ground was wet.\nAnother thing is added: that he should order twice ten thousand\nand two thousand of the fearful people to return,\nand set the number of fighters at ten thousand.\nWarned, he reduced this too, lest the gathered crowd,\ntrusting in its own strength, should not see the Lord’s arms.\nAs the chief of the young men leads the line to the river,\nhe bids them lap the flowing water in the manner of dogs,\nso that he might have companions of glad courage.\nThree hundred men were approved; for the rest of the crowd,\nlanguid, did not take the drink as shown, from the palm,\nto return to their homes, as though they knew nothing of battle.\nTrusting in this company he makes war on so many thousands\nthat men cannot count them who, taught by skill,\nare used to reckon sums on outstretched fingers:\non this side lines of cavalry with mingled companies of foot,\non that side innumerable camels in a grim mass.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.301 (CSEL 23:190lines 301–323–191; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-301)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.324":{"o":"at Gedeo]n properans famulo Pharane sequaci\nhostica] castra petit ac nocte obtentus opaca\ndegredi]tur, lustransque situm mentesque animosque,\naudiu]it socio narrantem somnia quendam,\nquae m]ale sopitus sensu uigilante notarat.\nnamque] uidebatur panem sibi uisere uolui,\nhord]ea quem faciunt quotiens frumenta negantur,\net ua]rios glomerare modos per castra, per agmen:\ndonec] per media uenit munimina ualli\net penitus] regis inuasit pondere sedes.\nhaec] ostenta uiri cecinerunt sanguinis esse\naugurium] finemque ferunt uenisse Madiae.\nhinc] postquam dominum iuuenis ueneratus abiuit,\nsomnia] tum conperta uiris sublimior infit\nsoluere, ia]mque manum trino mox agmine ducit.\ncornea] tela tubas manibus et lampadas indit\nexemplumque suis sese iubet esse laborum\npro]mentesque deo grates primordia pugnae\ned]ere. ne desit dominus, quo principe uincant.\niam] uigiles prima noctis mutauerat hora,\ncum] rapidi incurrunt portis clausasque reuellunt\nserras at]que tubas uentosis flatibus implent;\nhyd]rias inde rotant, magno quae pondere quassae\ndissiliunt. saltusque cient atque aere canoro\ndant sonitus fractasque leuant ad sidera uoces.","t":"But Gideon, hastening with his servant Purah following,\nmakes for the enemy camp and, covered by dark night,\ngoes down, and, surveying the site and their minds and spirits,\nheard a man telling a companion his dreams,\nwhich he had noted with waking sense in his troubled sleep.\nFor he seemed to see a loaf rolling,\nsuch as barley makes whenever wheat is denied,\nand winding in various ways through the camp, through the column,\nuntil it came through the middle of the rampart’s defences\nand with its weight broke right into the king’s seat.\nThe men declared these portents an augury\nof a man’s blood, and say that the end of Midian has come.\nThen, after the young man had worshipped the Lord and gone away,\nmore exalted, he begins to explain to his men\nthe dream he had learned, and soon leads his band in three columns.\nHe puts horn trumpets as weapons and torches in their hands\nand bids them take him as their example in the toil,\nand, giving thanks to God, to begin\nthe battle, lest the Lord be absent, under whose lead they conquer.\nNow the first hour of the night had changed the watches,\nwhen they swiftly rush on the gates and tear away the closed\nbars and fill the trumpets with windy blasts;\nthen they whirl the jars, which, shaken with great weight,\nburst apart; they rouse the glades and, with ringing bronze,\ngive forth sounds and raise broken cries to the stars.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.324 (CSEL 23:191lines 324–348–192; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-324)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.349":{"o":"agmina flammarum laeuis protenta coruscant\net noctem multo radiantes lumine uincunt.\nquo fremitu concussi animi, mens territa cunctis:\nqua data porta, ruunt et territa castra relinquunt.\nmox omnis Iudaea coit sequiturque palantes;\npars fontes riguos ac raucos occupat amnes.\nut dispersa metu sitientibus arida uenis\nhostica turba ruens custodum incurrat in arma.\nnec tanti cecidere doli; namque agmine prono\nMadiae proceres ueniunt Orebus et Axes\ninplacidi, ferrumque simul pro gurgite sumunt.\net licet inuidia uirtutis torserit illos.\nqui procul afuerant communi et laude carebant.\nattamen eloquio Gedeon et supplice fatu\nleniuit, quod bina ducum monumenta tenerent.\nspernitur ob reliquum medii certaminis actum.\nhostilesque etiam dicuntur uiuere reges;\nsuspendit plectenda tamen minitansque recedit.\ninde opus inceptum peragit. fugientibus haeret.\ninuenit in Carris metantes castra Sabaeos;\nnamque quater denis stipabant milibus agmen\npost cladem, centum ruerant qua milia ferro\nac bis dena simul: numerus hic bella nouabat.\nsed meritis innexa suis gens concidit omnis.","t":"Columns of flame held out in their left hands flash\nand conquer the night, shining with much light.\nAt this roar their spirits are shaken, all minds terrified;\nwhere a gate is open they rush out and leave the terrified camp.\nSoon all Judea gathers and follows the scattered enemy;\npart seize the watering springs and roaring rivers,\nso that the enemy crowd, scattered in fear, dry in their thirsting veins,\nrushing on, may run into the guards’ weapons.\nNor did such stratagems fail; for in a headlong column\ncome the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb,\nimplacable, and meet the sword instead of the stream.\nAnd though envy of his valour tormented those\nwho had been far off and lacked a share in the common praise,\nyet Gideon soothed them with eloquent and humble speech,\nbecause they held the trophies of the two leaders.\nHe is scorned for the remaining part of the unfinished contest,\nand the enemy kings are said to be still alive;\nyet he postpones the punishment and withdraws with threats.\nThen he completes the work begun and presses on the fleeing.\nHe found the Sabaeans encamped at Karkor;\nfor they massed their column with four times ten thousand\nafter the slaughter in which a hundred thousand had fallen by the sword\nand twice ten thousand more: this number was renewing the war.\nBut the whole nation, entangled in its deserts, fell.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.349 (CSEL 23:192lines 349–373; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-349)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.374":{"o":"Zebeus ductor post funera tanta suorum\net Salmana fugit; nam mens euicta periclo\nhaesit ad extremae ueniens ludibria sortis.\nnam captos pariter Gedeon per singula ducit\nostentatque uiris. qui dudum murmure duro\nposcentem uictus stolidis risere cachinnis.\nnec mora, per sentes raptantur membra nocentes\nintonsique uirum rorantur sanguine dumi.\nquin et. nequa forent sceleris uestigia tanti.\nurbs ferro subuersa ruit turresque minaces\nconuulsae penitus longam traxere ruinam.\npost reges iubet esse palam, quos undique turba\nmirantis claudit populi; tum dicere iussit,\nquos et quanta uiros strauissent caede superbi.\nqua Iudaea perit. tantos dixere fuisse,\nut regum natos formarum proderet ardor.\nille suos fratres germano in pectore uersat,\ncaesorum speculans habitus, ceu corpore inhaeret.\ntum sic motus ait: \"Testor te, sancte deorum\nomnipotens. et facta tuae sublimia dextrae,\nfemineae meritum dare te memorabile laudi.\"\nHunc sequitur Tholamus. bis denis qui fuit annis\natque tribus nulla uexatus peste duelli.\nIadirus inde uiget Galaditicus atque quiete\naeq]ue multa potens [sceptrum bis denis possidet annis] ...","t":"The leader Zebah, after such deaths of his men,\nand Zalmunna flee; for the mind, overcome by danger,\nfaltered, coming to the mockery of the last extremity.\nFor Gideon leads the captives together from place to place\nand shows them to the men who earlier, with harsh murmur,\nhad mocked him with foolish laughter when he asked for help.\nWithout delay the guilty men’s limbs are dragged through thorns,\nand the unshorn bushes are bedewed with men’s blood.\nMoreover, lest any traces of so great a crime should remain,\nthe city, overthrown by the sword, falls, and its threatening towers,\ntorn up from the foundations, drew down a long ruin.\nAfterwards he orders the kings to be shown in public, whom on every side\nthe crowd of the marvelling people encloses; then he orders them to say\nwhom and how many men, in their pride, they had laid low in the slaughter\nin which Judea was perishing. They said they had been such\nthat their noble beauty marked them as the sons of kings.\nHe thinks of his brothers in his brotherly breast,\npicturing the bearing of the slain as if it were before him.\nThen, moved, he speaks thus: “I call you to witness, holy one,\nAlmighty, and the lofty deeds of your right hand,\nthat you give memorable merit even to a woman’s praise.”\nAfter him comes Tola, who was judge for twice ten years\nand three, troubled by no plague of war.\nThen Jair the Gileadite flourishes and, in peace,\nequally powerful …","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.374 (CSEL 23:192lines 374–398–194; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-374)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.399":{"o":"praediues, genitor deno ter pignore gaudens,\nnobilis. undenis regnum bis possidet annis.\ncuius post obitum raptim noua idola crescunt;\nnam praeter adsuetum daemonis Astaratis aras\net deos Assyriae uel Sidonis atque Moabi\nnescios ante sibi ritus Iudaea parauit.\nquos propter duris Ammanum pressa duellis\nbis nonas hiemes traxit confecta periclis.\nex alt]o tandem recolit tandemque reuoluit\nplacandum] magis esse deum, qui numine summo\npossit uel longum populi sedare reatum.\net renouant] pia iura dei : nam protinus aras\nproiciunt] cunctosque deos et saxea frangunt\nidola, ma]nsuri memores per saecla tonantis.\nuertitur] interea distinctis cursibus ordo\nductor)emque legit populus, qui milite firmo\nuel bello] uel pace queat moderarier urbes.\nIephthea] placuit quidam Galadite natus,\ncuius no]bilitas maculam de matre trahebat,\nquae pas]sim prostrata uiris sub fornice uixit.\nhunc] fratres pepulere domo. quia decolor heres,\npatre c]arens certo, rebus genetricis haerebat.\nquos fug]it metuens et colles inter opacos\ninue]nit scelerum comites raptoque potitur.","t":"very rich, a father rejoicing in thrice ten children,\nnoble, he holds the kingdom twice eleven years.\nAfter his death new idols spring up quickly;\nfor besides the accustomed altars of the demon Astarte\nand the gods of Assyria, Sidon and Moab,\nJudea prepared for itself rites unknown before.\nFor these, pressed by Ammon in hard wars,\nit dragged out twice nine winters, worn down by dangers.\nAt last it remembers on high and at last considers\nthat God must rather be appeased, who by his highest power\ncould calm even the long guilt of the people.\nAnd they renew God’s holy laws; for at once they throw down\nthe altars and all the gods and break the stone\nidols, mindful of the Thunderer who abides through the ages.\nMeanwhile the order turns in its distinct courses,\nand the people choose a leader who with firm soldiers\ncould govern the cities in war or in peace.\nA certain Jephthah was approved, a Gileadite by birth,\nwhose nobility drew a stain from his mother,\nwho lived prostituted to men everywhere in a brothel.\nHis brothers drove him from the house, because, a tarnished heir\nwithout a known father, he belonged to his mother’s side.\nFearing them, he fled, and among the dark hills\nfound companions in crime and lives by plunder.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.399 (CSEL 23:194lines 399–422–195; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-399)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.423":{"o":"at pa]rte ex alia Ammonus bella regebat\nIebuseo]s urgens Solymos; Iudaea carebat\nnam]que duce facilesque dabat labefacta triumphos.\nmittu]ntur iuuenes. qui clarum Iephthea bello\nconueniant] blandoque uocent in proelia suasu.\nauxilium] primum renuit: mox agmina miscet\narbit]riumque tenens Ammones submouet hostes.\nsed prius] adloquio restinguere bella paratus\nlegatis] mandata dedit, qui deinde reuersi\nnil actum referunt hostemque instare loquuntur.\nsic ubi deposita est optatae gratia pacis,\nin] ferrum Iephthea ruit dominumque precatus\ngrandia uota uouet. multum dolitura parenti.\nilicet ut. quisquis primus redeuntem adisset.\nuictima perpetuo fieret condigna tonanti.\nhis actis procedit ouans ac milite lecto\nsigna mouet hostesque fugat, quos caede cruenta\nconficiens propere bis denas subruit urbes:\nsed dum regreditur, dum laudis nuntius ipse est\net sequitur longa ueniens uictoria pompa.\nfilia, quae patrios seruabat sola labores,\noccurrit blandumque canit cum congrege turba\net leuis erecta consurgit ad oscula planta:\nquam pater ut uidit, constrictos scindit amictus\net mala cernentes in fletum concitat orbes.","t":"But on the other side the Ammonite was waging war,\npressing the Jebusite people of Jerusalem; for Judea\nlacked a leader and, weakened, gave easy triumphs.\nYoung men are sent to meet Jephthah, famous in war,\nand call him to battle with coaxing persuasion.\nAt first he refused help; soon he joins the columns\nand, holding command, drives back the Ammonite enemy.\nBut first, ready to end the war by negotiation,\nhe gave instructions to envoys, who then return\nand report that nothing was done and that the enemy presses on.\nSo when the hope of the desired peace was laid aside,\nJephthah rushes to the sword and, having prayed to the Lord,\nvows great vows that would cause the parent great grief:\nthat whoever first came to meet him on his return\nshould become a fitting victim for the everlasting Thunderer.\nThese things done, he goes forth exulting and with chosen soldiers\nmoves the standards and routs the enemy, and, finishing them\nwith bloody slaughter, quickly overthrows twice ten cities.\nBut while he returns, himself the messenger of his glory,\nand victory follows in a long procession,\nhis daughter, the only child to share her father’s labours,\nruns to meet him and sings sweetly with a gathered crowd\nand rises on tiptoe for his kisses.\nWhen her father saw her, he tears the garments girded on him\nand moves his eyes, seeing the evil, to weeping.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.423 (CSEL 23:195lines 423–447–196; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-423)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.448":{"o":"\"Heu fatis funesta meis uictoria! uotum\nhoc potius hostile fuit ! quo filia curris,\nquo ruis? extremum nobis, quod te adloquor, hoc est.\nnam dum signa mouens dominum munimina posco,\nuictima facta deo sanctas sisteris ad aras.\"\nat uirgo, secura sui mortisque beatae,\nblandius exultat interque pericula ludit.\nquin etiam exorat. sua sit sententia certa\nneu dubitet haereatque parens. (et parca) precatur\ntempora. quis ualeat lacrimis lugere iuuentam.\nadnuitur mensesque duo praestantur ouanti.\nergo aderat praescripta dies genitorque sacerdos\nuirgineam domino mittebat in aethera mentem.\nhaec inter rabies populi concurrit ad arma\ncognatasque acies urget furor. et liuor edax.\ndum carpit pia facta uiri. sese ipse peremit:\nnam triginta duo decumbunt milia ferro\nex populis, Ephrema. tuis uictorque duello\nciuiles etiam meruit Iephthea triumphos.\nconmutat Iudaea ducem uiduata priore.\nIsrahelita prius Esebon. dux postea dictus.\naccepit patriae lectus moderator habenas.\nmultorum genitor: nam quadraginta fuere\nex iustis thalamis nati. spes tanta nepotum,\nter denas cohibens uno sub tempore nuptas.","t":"“Alas, victory deadly to my fate! This vow\nwas rather my enemy! Where are you running, daughter,\nwhere are you rushing? This is the last time I speak to you.\nFor while, moving the standards, I asked the Lord for protection,\nyou, made a victim to God, are set before the holy altars.”\nBut the virgin, unconcerned for herself and her blessed death,\nexults the more sweetly and plays amid the danger.\nMoreover she begs that his resolve stand firm\nand that her father not doubt or hesitate, and asks for a little\ntime in which she may lament her youth with tears.\nIt is granted, and two months are given her as she rejoices.\nSo the appointed day came, and her father, as priest,\nsent the virgin’s spirit to the Lord in heaven.\nMeanwhile the people’s rage runs to arms,\nand fury drives kindred ranks against each other, and devouring envy,\nwhile it carps at the man’s pious deeds, destroys itself:\nfor thirty-two thousand fall by the sword\nof your peoples, Ephraim, and Jephthah, victor in the war,\nearned triumphs in civil strife as well.\nJudea, bereft of its former leader, takes another.\nIbzan, once an Israelite of Bethlehem, afterwards called leader,\nwas chosen and took the reins of his fatherland as governor,\nthe father of many: for he had forty sons\nfrom lawful marriage beds, so great a hope of grandsons,\nand kept thirty brides for them at one time.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.448 (CSEL 23:196lines 448–472–197; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-448)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.473":{"o":"expletis septem, dum rector iudicat, annis\noccidit et tectus tumulo mundana reliquit.\ninsequitur sceptrumque tenet Zabulonius Helon.\nqui geminis rector lustris moderamina liquit.\nsubditur huic propere princeps Abalenius Abdon.\nnatarum triginta pater; nam mascula proles\nquaterdena fuit, multo cum ditior esset\nsupposita de matre parens numeroque nothorum.\niudicium populi bis quattuor obtinet annis.\nAc dum sola dei uiguit cultura, perennis\npax laetis seruata fuit ; namque idola rursus\nadorata uiris bellum mouere cruentum;\nnamque omnes dominus bellantum subdidit armis\net poenas fecit octono expendere lustro.\nillis temporibus iuuenis Manoea uigebat\net nondum genitor; sterili nam coniuge iuncta\noptabat uotis titulis gaudere natorum.\nhuius mulieri dominus super aethera lapsus\nadstitit, insueti promittens munera partus,\nimperitans, natus ne uina et sicera libet,\nneu maculosa sinat patulo decerpere morsu,\nidcirco quoniam cunctis felicior esset\nmatribus et numeri damnum pensaret in uno.\n\"Nam uirtus generosa fiet. nullique licebit\ninuictum uiolare caput uel laedere ferro.","t":"Having completed seven years as he judges as ruler,\nhe died and, covered by a tomb, left the things of the world.\nElon of Zebulun follows and holds the sceptre,\nwho as ruler left the government after two lustres.\nQuickly the chief Abdon the Pirathonite is set after him,\nfather of thirty daughters; for his male offspring\nwas forty, since the father was much richer\nby a substitute mother and a number of bastards.\nHe holds the judgment of the people for twice four years.\nAnd while the worship of God alone flourished, lasting\npeace was kept for the glad people; for idols, worshipped\nagain by men, stirred up bloody war;\nfor the Lord subjected all to the arms of warriors\nand made them pay penalties for eight lustres.\nIn those times the young man Manoah flourished,\nnot yet a father; for, joined to a barren wife,\nhe longed in his prayers to rejoice in the name of children.\nTo his wife the Lord, gliding down from above the sky,\nstood near, promising the gift of an unaccustomed birth,\ncommanding that the son should not taste wine or strong drink,\nnor let unclean things be bitten with open mouth,\nbecause she would be happier than all mothers\nand would make up in one son the loss of number.\n“For he will be of noble courage, and no one will be allowed\nto violate his unconquered head or harm it with iron,","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.473 (CSEL 23:197lines 473–497–198; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-473)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.498":{"o":"adlectus domini fecundo ex uiscere fetae.\nut populum] saluare queat bellumque retundens\nacer in] hostiles conuertat damna maniplos.\"\nuenit et est] confessa uiro; nam flammea dixit\nora uiri] uisumque dei fulgentis honorem,\nquaerenti]que dei nomen tacuisse tonantem.\nNazaraeu]s erit, de te qui gignitur.\" inquit.\nadiuuat] uxorem uotis Manoea iugatis,\nmissus qui] fuerit sanctus pia dicta retexat\naccend]atque nouum lumen, quo noscere possit\nquid pu]ero deceat, qui nondum natus ametur.\nilicet] et caelo dimittitur et noua pandens\nadproper]at nuptamque uidens in gramine fusam,\nconiuge] seposito, confestim conminus adstat.\nhaec sur]git cursimque uiro. quae uiderat, infit.\nhic sequi]tur pauitans sanctumque inuisere gaudens,\net uidet] eximio fulgentem lumine uultum.\nadgr]editur poscitque uirum, si uera loquatur,\nexpon]ato quae facta uelit. quibus ore sereno\nangel]us expromit paribus fas esse teneri\nomnibus], inmundis nec conmodet ora creandus.\nneu] uinum siceramue bibat, neu pocula sumat\nulla], quibus ualeat mentem depellere sensu.\nexul]tans iuuenis haedum dat sumere sancto,\nmox ius]sus potius consueta offerre tonanti\nmunera. quae] suscepta uelit pro munere uitae.","t":"chosen of the Lord from the fruitful womb of a mother,\nso that he may save the people and, beating back war,\nfiercely turn losses against the enemy’s companies.”\nShe came and told her husband; for she said\nthat the man’s face was fiery and that she had seen the glory of shining God,\nand that, when she asked God’s name, the Thunderer was silent.\n“He who is born of you will be a Nazirite,” she says.\nManoah joins his wife in vows,\nthat the holy one who had been sent might repeat his pious words\nand kindle a new light by which they might know\nwhat befits the boy, who is loved before he is born.\nAt once he is sent down from heaven and, revealing new things,\nhastens and, seeing the wife lying on the grass\nwith her husband away, at once stands close by.\nShe rises and quickly tells her husband what she had seen.\nHe follows, trembling, and rejoicing to see the holy one,\nand sees a face shining with outstanding light.\nHe approaches and asks the man whether he speaks truly\nand bids him set out what he wishes done. To them, with serene face,\nthe angel declares that the same rules hold\nfor all, and that the child to be born must not put unclean things to his mouth,\nnor drink wine or strong drink, nor take any drinks\nby which the mind could be driven from its senses.\nExulting, the young man offers the holy one a kid to eat,\nbut is soon told rather to offer the accustomed gifts\nto the Thunderer, which he might wish to be accepted for the gift of life.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.498 (CSEL 23:198lines 498–523–199; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-498)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.50":{"o":"possedit montem, curuam quia subdere uallem\nnon ualuit, forti fuerat quae uota Chalebo.\nhis actis Iosepa cohors cum uindice Iuda\nBethelam properant pugnaci excidere ferro.\nexim fusa manus redeuntem concipit iram\nuulneribusque accensa suis pugnacior exit.\nac modo uictorem sublato nudat honore\ninpositumque iubet uectigal pendere Amorreum\nmagnaque terrarum multatum parte cohercet.\nnam qua plana iacet grauidae telluris Ydomea,\nscrupea quaque tument pendentis saxa Crabinae,\nomnia uictor habet, subiectum seruitus urget.\nhaec inter dominus contractas concutit iras.\net iubet aetheriis famulum descendere regnis,\nqui memor aeterna domini depromeret orsa.\nemicat ille uolans. Clauthmona ex Galgala uisens.\nBethelam ueniens, in qua Iudaea iuuentus\ndulcia sopitis adsumpserat otia bellis,\ngentiles uenerata deos, profanaque tura\nsculptilibus dederat iam dudum noxia saxis.\nergo his adgreditur dictis terretque timentes:\n\"Inmemor imperii rerumque oblita tuarum\nquo. Iudaea, ruis ? uel quae nunc numina fingis?\nquaeue superstitio est terram praeponere caelo\nfictilibusque deis uesano adsistere cultu?","t":"He possessed the hill country, because he could not subdue the curving valley,\nwhich had been promised to strong Caleb.\nThese things done, the band of Joseph, with Judah as avenger,\nhastens to cut down Bethel with warlike iron.\nThen the routed band of the enemy conceives returning anger\nand, inflamed by its wounds, comes out more warlike,\nand now strips the victor of the honour he had won;\nyet the Amorite, made subject, is ordered to pay tribute\nand is held in check, fined a great part of his lands.\nFor where level Idumea of the fruitful earth lies,\nand where the rough rocks of overhanging Akrabbim swell,\nthe victor holds all, and servitude presses the subject.\nMeanwhile the Lord shakes his gathered anger\nand orders his servant to come down from the heavenly realms,\nto declare, mindful, the eternal words of the Lord.\nHe shines out in flight, coming from Gilgal to Weeping,\ncoming to Bethel, where the Jewish youth\nhad taken sweet leisure when the wars were lulled,\nhaving worshipped gentile gods and long since\noffered profane incense, guilty, to carved stones.\nSo he approaches them with these words and terrifies them in their fear:\n“Forgetful of the command and of your own affairs,\nwhere, Judea, are you rushing? What divinities do you now fashion?\nWhat superstition is this, to prefer earth to heaven\nand to attend clay gods with insane worship?","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.50 (CSEL 23:180lines 50–101–181; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-50)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.524":{"o":"quaerunt] quin etiam domini condiscere nomen.\nscrutari] quod nemo potest: mirabile namque est.\ntum iuuenis] mandata sibi libamina profert,\ncap]rigenam prolem sancta ad donaria sistens.\nmox] autem flammis ad candida sidera surgens\naet]hera pulsabat uertex caelumque tenebat.\nper] quem conspicuus scandebat nubila sanctus.\nnec mora, promisso turgescunt uiscera fetu\net proles optata datur. quam nomine certo\nSamsonem dixere patres: hoc sedit utrique.\nac dum prima puer titubans uestigia figit.\nincedit comitante deo; nam spiritus illi\nrector erat, quem terra tremit. cui sidera parent.\nquo fretus per castra fuit Danisque Thalique.\ninde pubescenti uenit iam corpore Thamnam.\nin qua conspicuae capitur candore puellae.\npatribus eloquitur. uxorem postulat ille:\ndissimulant licitumque negant, quia femina non sit\nex tribubus generata suis. hoc acrius instat\nconfirmans iuransque sibi placuisse parentes.\nquos habeat: optatori quaesita iugatur.\nac dum per uirides laeto cum palmite uites\nincedit tacitumque mouet per singula uultum.\necce leo quasi Maxillae per auia regnat:","t":"Moreover they seek to learn the Lord’s name,\nwhich no one can search out, for it is wonderful.\nThen the young man brings the offerings he was bidden,\nsetting the goat’s offspring among the holy gifts.\nBut soon the flame, rising toward the bright stars,\nbeat with its tip on the sky and reached heaven,\nand by it the holy one, conspicuous, climbed the clouds.\nWithout delay the womb swells with the promised child,\nand the longed-for offspring is given, whom by a sure name\nthe parents called Samson; this pleased them both.\nAnd while the boy, tottering, plants his first steps,\nhe walks with God beside him; for the Spirit was his guide,\nat whom the earth trembles, whom the stars obey.\nRelying on him he moved through the camps of Dan and Eshtaol.\nThen, his body now grown to youth, he came to Timnah,\nwhere he is captivated by the fairness of a conspicuous girl.\nHe tells his parents; he asks for her as wife.\nThey demur and say it is not lawful, because the woman was not\nborn of their tribes. He presses the more sharply,\naffirming and swearing that she pleased him.\nShe is sought and joined to the one who longed for her.\nAnd while he walks through green vines with glad shoots\nand turns his silent gaze on each thing,\nsee, a lion holds sway in the wilds of the Jawbone:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.524 (CSEL 23:199lines 524–547–200; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-524)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.548":{"o":"rugitu horrisono stimulans se uerbere caudae\nexcutiensque toros. patulo uenit obuius ore.\nhunc ille exceptum, neque enim labor, inpete dextra\ndisicit et lacero diuisum dissipat artu.\ndotatus tacitae uirtutis munere factum\nocculit atque animo contentus teste laetatur.\npost aliquot redit ipse dies praedamque requirit:\nhic uero. horrendum ac dictu mirabile monstrum,\nmella uidet mediis in faucibus esse leonis\nflauenti permixta fauo. quae protinus aufert\net gustu temptata suo fidentior offert\nfratribus egregiis iuuenis. iamque esse timori\ncoeperat eximio uirtutis nomine multis.\nter denis igitur pariter comitantibus exit\npraestanti uirtute uiris; tunc quaestio cunctis\nponitur et plectens ignaros multa iocatur.\nut uestes niueo confestim stamine textas\nexhibeant. si uera queant non promere fatu.\nincipiens uaria conuoluit uerba figura:\n\"Ex mandente uiri communis prodiit esca.\ndulcius atque fauo ualidi de corpore fluxit.\"\nid cum ueridico nullus depromeret ore\net septem post poena dies remearet amicis,\nconfusi struxere dolos sociumque perosi\nad ciuem uenere suam. quam diximus ante\nconubio placuisse uiro. rogitantque minaces.","t":"rousing itself with horrible roar and the lash of its tail\nand shaking its muscles, it comes to meet him with open mouth.\nHe takes it on — for it was no labour — and with impetuous right hand\ntears it apart and scatters it, its limbs rent asunder.\nEndowed with the gift of silent courage, he hides the deed\nand rejoices, content with his own mind as witness.\nAfter some days he returns and looks for the prey:\nhere indeed — a horrible portent and wonderful to tell —\nhe sees honey in the middle of the lion’s jaws\nmixed with yellow comb, which he at once takes away,\nand, having tested it by taste, more confidently offers it\nto his excellent kin. And now he had begun\nto be feared by many for his outstanding renown for valour.\nSo he goes out with thrice ten men accompanying him,\nmen of outstanding valour; then a riddle is set to all,\nand he jests, laying a forfeit on the ignorant,\nthat they must at once produce garments woven of snowy thread\nif they could not utter the truth in speech.\nBeginning, he wraps his words in a varied figure:\n“From the eater of man came forth common food,\nand from the body of the strong flowed something sweeter than the comb.”\nWhen no one brought it forth with truthful mouth,\nand after seven days the forfeit would fall on the friends,\nthey, confused, built a plot and, hating their companion,\ncame to their fellow citizen, whom we said before\nhad pleased the man as a bride, and ask her with threats","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.548 (CSEL 23:200lines 548–573–201; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-548)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.574":{"o":"Samsone ut luso secretum nuntiet: ac ni\nid faciat. flammas testantur uindices esse.\nterrita femineo permulcet pectora fletu\ndura uiri: nam clausa tegit. memoransque. parenti\net matri non dicta suae cur garrula poscat?\nsed quid femineus non tendat cogere fletus ?\nuincitur ac tacitae mentis secreta renudat.\net docet illa uiros. septena in luce diei\nocciduus dubio pallebat lumine mundus:\nrespondent socii: \"Quid melle dulcius. aut quid\nfortius esse potest crines uibrante leone?\nconiugis esse dolos confestim noscitat heros\net simul: \"O iuuenes, non haec sententia uestra est:\nnam nisi me blando lactasset femina suasu,\ncognita non fuerat permixtis quaestio causis.\nspiritus inde dei iuuenem dimittit in hostes;\nter denos detruncat ouans et cuncta ruentum\nuictor habet uestesque suis, quas dixerat, offert.\npaulatimque uiro uirtutum semina crescunt;\nnam socer ambiguae ductus cupidine mentis\ndenegat uxorem iuueni atque ipse negatam\nconloc]at externo. ne post accensus et acer\nrestitujat fortasse petat, natuque minorem\npromittit, si] forte uelit. \"Pro maximus ultor!\nexclamat] toruisque [ex] oculis inmane minatur\nulturus] que diu multum pro talibus ausis\nactut]um excidii. quo saeuiat. inuenit usum;","t":"to find out the secret by tricking Samson; and if\nshe does not do it, they declare that flames will avenge it.\nTerrified, she softens the man’s hard heart with womanly weeping;\nfor he keeps it shut, reminding her: why does she, a chatterer,\nask what was not told to his father and his mother?\nBut what does a woman’s weeping not strive to compel?\nHe is overcome and lays bare the secrets of his silent mind,\nand she tells the men. On the seventh day\nthe setting world grew pale with doubtful light;\nthe companions answer: “What is sweeter than honey, or what\ncan be stronger than a lion shaking his mane?”\nThe hero at once recognizes his wife’s treachery\nand says: “O young men, this answer is not yours:\nfor unless the woman had coaxed me with soothing persuasion,\nthe riddle with its tangled sense would not have been known.”\nThen the Spirit of God sends the young man against the enemy;\nexulting, he cuts down thirty and, victorious, holds all\nthat the fallen had, and gives his companions the garments he had promised.\nAnd gradually the seeds of courage grow in the man;\nfor his father-in-law, led by the whim of an unsteady mind,\nrefuses the young man his wife and himself gives her\nto a stranger, lest afterwards, inflamed and fierce,\nhe should perhaps ask that she be restored, and promises\nhis younger daughter, if he wishes. “O mighty avenger!”\nhe exclaims, and threatens monstrously from grim eyes,\nand, about to take long and great vengeance for such daring,\nat once found a means of destruction by which to rage:","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.574 (CSEL 23:201lines 574–600–202; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-574)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.601":{"o":"ter cen]tum uulpes alacer capit hasque reuinctis\ninter se] caudis binasque ex ordine iunctas\npassim] perque oleas uinetaque collis amoeni\nmittit] agens caudisque ardentes lampadas indit.\nquae] uix dimissae campos petiere feraces.\nquocumque ad]celerant incendia lata trahentes.\nilicet] ignis edax uentorum flatibus auctus\nuoluitur:] exuperant flammae tractaeque secuntur.\nnec lat]uere doli. cultorum conflua turba\ntam] grauibus mactata malis se congregat atque\nuxorem dudum iuuenes ipsumque parentem\nflammis] iniciunt tectaque ussere domorum.\nsic tum]ulus, quod poena, fuit; quod flamma, sepulchrum.\nillum] acuit uindicta grauis. nam multa minatur.\nhostibus at]que suis uasta dat strage ruinam.\ninter]ea iuuenes odio ter mille calescunt\nde] luda tribu, Samsonem ut milite tanto\ninte]rimant unumque petant tot milia ferro.\nsed] iuuenis mox arma capit sociosque precatur\nin]stantes. ut bella sinant pro laude capessi.\nut] uoluit. est facta fides: tum uincula promunt\nstup]pea. quae nouies conectunt bracchia nodis;\np]ellitur e saxo. Maxillae aduentat ad oram\nturba]que collecta gaudebat uisere captum.","t":"he eagerly catches three hundred foxes and, tying\ntheir tails together and joining them two by two in order,\nsends them out, driving them everywhere through the olive groves\nand vineyards of the pleasant hill, and puts burning torches in their tails.\nScarcely let go, they made for the fertile fields;\nwherever they hasten they drag wide fires behind them.\nAt once the devouring fire, increased by the blasts of the winds,\nrolls on; the flames prevail and spread as they are drawn along.\nNor was the trick hidden. The crowd of farmers flocks together,\nstricken by such heavy evils, and\nthe young men throw his wife and her father\ninto the flames and burned the roofs of their houses.\nSo the penalty was their burial mound, the flame their tomb.\nHeavy vengeance spurs him on, for he threatens much,\nand deals ruin with vast slaughter to the enemy and his own.\nMeanwhile three thousand young men of the tribe of Judah\ngrow hot with hatred, to kill Samson with so great a force\nand seek one man with so many thousand swords.\nBut the young man soon takes up arms and begs his allies,\nas they press on, to let the war be waged for the glory.\nAs he wished, the pledge was given; then they bring out\nbonds of tow, with which they bind his arms in nine knots;\nhe is driven from the rock. He comes to the edge of the Jawbone,\nand the gathered crowd rejoiced to see him captured.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.601 (CSEL 23:202lines 601–624–203; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-601)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.625":{"o":"dumque auidi intentant dextras fremituque minantur\nhorrisono, trahit ille manus et linea rumpit\nuincula, tum curuam — nam quid non ira ministret ? —\nmaxillam tardi conixus stringit aselli:\nhac mille (res mira) uiros pulsatque necatque.\ncumque sitis sicco iuuenem pulmone moneret\nauxilium sperare dei, qui semine nullo\ncuncta creat, cui, cum uoluit. res torrida fons est.\nqui iussu uel sicca rigat, uel flumina siccat.\nqui uastos inter scopulos heremumque calentem\ninriguos duris laxauit cotibus amnes:\nnec mora, cum leui maxillae in osse patescens\nrima fluit flumenque tremit fugiente meatu.\nexpletur iuuenis caelesti e gurgite potus.\nmira facit et magna uidet, laudanda meretur,\ncuius imperio bis denis Iudaea pollens\norbibus enituit. duce hoc et milite fidens.\ninde abiit Gazamque uenit, ubi femina uilis\niuuenibus calidis uendebat saucia noctes.\nhanc adiit. quae prima fuit mox causa pericli.\necce uolat Gazaea manus atque obice duras\nemunit portas et ferrea uincula subdit:\ninclusum retinens ut capto ludere gestit.\nnocte fere media Samsonem somnia linquunt;","t":"And while greedily they stretch out their hands and threaten him\nwith horrible roar, he pulls his hands apart and breaks the linen\nbonds; then — for what does anger not supply? —\nstraining, he grasps the curved jawbone of a slow ass,\nand with it (a wondrous thing) strikes and kills a thousand men.\nAnd when thirst, his lungs dry, warned the young man\nto hope for the help of God, who creates all things\nwithout seed, for whom, when he wills, the parched thing is a spring,\nwho at his command waters dry ground or dries up rivers,\nwho among vast crags and the hot wilderness\nreleased watering rivers from hard rocks:\nwithout delay a crack opening in the light bone of the jaw\nflows, and the stream trembles in its escaping course.\nThe young man is filled with drink from a heavenly flood.\nHe does wonders and sees great things and deserves praise,\nunder whose command Judea, strong, shone forth\nfor twice ten years, trusting in this leader and soldier.\nThen he went off and came to Gaza, where a cheap woman,\nwounded, sold her nights to hot young men.\nHe went to her, who was soon the first cause of danger.\nSee, the band of Gaza flies and secures the hard gates\nwith a bar and sets iron chains under them,\nkeeping him shut in, as it longs to mock its captive.\nAt about midnight Samson’s dreams leave him;","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.625 (CSEL 23:203lines 625–648–204; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-625)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.649":{"o":"excitus inmane furit: tum limina pulsans\nconuellit geminos stridenti a cardine postes\nsuccedensque oneri cursim super ardua defert\neminus oppositi montis iuga. atque periclis\nfortior (hinc) Dalilae capitur bellator amore.\nhanc omnes adiere uiri. quos liuor agebat\ninuictum superare uirum, ut iuncta cubili.\ndulcibus inlecebris lenitum mulceat et mox.\nquae uires fomenta nouent. quae semina tantum\nrobur alant: natura fiat tam fortis an arte?\nquae si dicta canat, donandam munere firmant.\noratus iuuenis: \"Si septem uinciar una\nuafer ait neruis. quos nondum deserit umor.\nomne robur perdam cunctisque ignauior exstem.\"\ninstruit illa suos fallentem femina fallens.\nartatur iuuenis neruorum robore duro.\nquos modico adtractu ceu mollia uellera rupit.\nconsultusque dehinc restes fert esse timori\nintactos, qui nulla fiant uei-sura soluti.\ninligat illa uirum, cum iam defessa labore\nproflarent tenuem marcentia pectora somnum.\nut primum sensit nodos. euerberat auras\net risit similes ceu ducit aranea casses.\nbis uariis elusa modis tamen ausa precari\nrursus adumbrato temptat Samsona rogatu.","t":"roused, he rages monstrously; then, beating at the threshold,\nhe tears the two doorposts from their grating hinge\nand, getting under the load, quickly carries them up\nthe steep ridges of the mountain far opposite. And, stronger\nthan danger, the warrior is then captured by love of Delilah.\nAll the men whom envy drove came to her,\nto overcome the unconquered man, that, joined to him in bed,\nshe might soothe him, softened by sweet allurements, and soon learn\nwhat nourishment renews his strength, what source feeds\nsuch great power: whether he is so strong by nature or by art.\nIf she tells them, they affirm that she will be rewarded.\nThe young man, entreated, says craftily: “If I am bound\nwith seven sinews that are still moist,\nI will lose all strength and become weaker than all.”\nThe woman, deceiving the deceiver, instructs her people.\nThe young man is bound with the hard strength of sinews,\nwhich he broke with a slight pull like soft fleeces.\nAsked again, he says that new ropes are to be feared,\nnever used, which would never be loosed.\nShe binds the man when, now wearied with labour,\nhis drooping breast breathed out thin sleep.\nAs soon as he felt the knots, he lashes the air\nand laughed at them as at nets a spider spins.\nTwice deceived in different ways, yet daring to ask,\nshe tries Samson again with a veiled request.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.649 (CSEL 23:204lines 649–673–205; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-649)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.674":{"o":"respondit diuersa satis nec uera petenti:\n\"Tu crines dissolue meos rursusque retorquens\ntexe memor. ulnam plectens non amplius unam;\nsic fiet, ut uirtus pereat spoliata uigore.\"\nquae fuerant praedicta. facit trepideque reuoluens\nsuspensa nectit dextra palisque reflectens\ninligat et captum sociis Dalila resignat:\nexiliens reicit palos crinemque renodat.\nnil totiens periura timet totiensque repulsa\ndenuo] adiurat lacrimis male sana paratis\nomnemque ad]sciuit. quo sit facilior, artem.\nnec iam fert] fictos mens emollita maerores\net frau Idem, sed dira sibi patefecit amatae.\n\"Nazaraeus] ego domini sum, crede, perennis.\net uirtus] in crine mihi est nec lamna capillos\nferrato] mucrone secat: qua si quis adacta\ncerui]cem faciat nudato uertice caluam.\nis cer]tus mihi finis erit uirtutis inemptae.\"\nhis dict]is manifesta fides: mox munere sumpto\nSamsonem] mulier gremio fouet; eximit omnes\nuires at]que comas tonsor mercede locatus.\nexcutit]ur Samsona toro. mutatus et idem\nprensatur]. unaque deus cum robore linquit.\nconfestim] gemino uiduatur lumine; namque\norbibus] effossis uacuas liquere lacunas\net ma]eret dura constrictus compede crura;","t":"He answered things quite different and untrue to her asking:\n“Loosen my hair and, twisting it again,\nweave it carefully, plaiting no more than one ell;\nso my strength will perish, robbed of its vigour.”\nShe does what had been said and, anxiously turning it,\nweaves it with hanging hand, and, fastening it with stakes,\nbinds it, and Delilah hands the captive over to her allies;\nleaping up, he throws back the stakes and unties his hair.\nPerjured so often and so often repulsed, she fears nothing;\nagain she adjures him with tears made ready, in her madness,\nand called in every art to make him yield.\nHis softened mind can no longer bear her feigned griefs\nand deceit, but revealed to his beloved what was dire for himself:\n“I am, believe me, a Nazirite of the everlasting Lord,\nand my strength is in my hair, and no blade cuts my locks\nwith iron edge; if anyone, driving it home,\nmakes my head bald with bared crown,\nthat will be the sure end of my unbought strength.”\nWith these words her faith was manifest; soon, the reward received,\nthe woman cherishes Samson in her lap; a barber hired for a fee\ntakes away all his strength and hair.\nSamson is shaken from the couch; changed, yet the same,\nhe is seized, and God departs with his strength.\nAt once he is bereft of both his eyes; for,\nhis eyeballs dug out, they left empty hollows,\nand he mourns, his legs bound with a hard fetter;","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.674 (CSEL 23:205lines 674–699–206; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-674)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.700":{"o":"attamen] haut nouit. quam caecus possidet, umbram.\ncarcere] conclusus molam rotat inpete dextra:\npondere s]ic gemino laterum sibi subuenit usus.\nnec mora] longa die crinis redeuntis honore\ncaesa]ries rediuiua fuit. quae tempore eodem\nrestituit] secum pariter roburque decusque.\necce] die quodam proceres coiere frequentes\nfact]uri sollemne deo, quem uana colentes\nnum]en habent. Dagona uocant et nomine pristim.\nhic] dum depositi Samsonis clade laetantur\nads]tantis longe media testudine templi.\nacciri iussere uirum iam uincere promptum.\nis]que mori iussus trahitur risuque solutis\npraebet nequitiae caeco de lumine causas.\nforte domus tota gemina subeunte columna\npendebat: has inter agens constringit utramque\namplexuque tenet toto retroque residit.\nut nisu maiore ruat. dominumque precatus\nultricem traxit propria cum morte ruinam.\nquo pater orbatus fratresque et pignora cuncta\nconueniunt functumque dolent decorantque sepulchro.","t":"yet he does not know the shadow that the blind man possesses.\nShut in prison, he turns the mill with his strong right hand;\nso the use of his sides helps him with a double weight.\nWithout long delay, by the honour of returning hair,\nthe shorn locks revived, which at the same time\nrestored with them both strength and grace.\nSee, on a certain day the chiefs gathered in crowds\nto hold a solemn feast for the god whom those who worship vain things\nhold as divinity: they call him by the ancient name Dagon.\nHere, while they rejoice in the downfall of the deposed Samson,\nstanding far off in the central vault of the temple,\nthey ordered the man, now ready to conquer, to be summoned.\nHe, ordered to die, is dragged in, and to those loosed in laughter\nhis blindness gives occasion for their wickedness.\nBy chance the whole house hung on two columns beneath it;\ngoing between them, he grips both\nand holds them in a full embrace and leans back,\nso that it might fall with greater force, and, having prayed to the Lord,\nhe drew down an avenging ruin with his own death.\nBereaved of him, his father and brothers and all his kin\ngather and mourn the dead and honour him with a tomb.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.700 (CSEL 23:206lines 700–720–207; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-700)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.721":{"o":"[hunc sequitur Semada ducem. qui fortibus ausis\nsescentos perimit et tempora laeta reducit.]\nHaec inter Micia petit pergrande talentum\nargenti matrem. quod sanctum femina fidens\nesse docet uotumque deo. sed tempore certo\nreddendum; mox celsa facit donaria sancto\net theraphin templumque deo. sinibusque repletis,\nqui minor est natus, domino fert dona sacerdos.\npost ludam Micia legit. sedemque quaerentem\ncongesto secum donorum munere nectit\nadsumptusque dei meruit sacraria uotis.\necce tribus Dana subito noua regna requirens\nmittit oratores socio de corpore quinque.\nscrutantes, ut cuncta probent, quae portio terrae\nsit melior, qua deinde iuuet conponere sedes.\nhi dum circumeunt saltusque ac deuia lustrant.\nad ludam ueniunt socio sermone serentes,\nquid faciat, quae sacra nouet? poscentibus ille\nquae postquam exprompsit, conpulsus consulit, alti\net domini mandata dei ueniamque supernam\nexhibuit, iussosque dehinc discedere laudat.\nhaec reduces docuere suos; iamque agmine denso\nsescenti ueniunt. ephudem et sculptile portant\net theraphin, secumque rogant consistere ludam.","t":"Meanwhile Micah asks his mother for a very large talent\nof silver; the woman, trusting, explains that it is holy\nand vowed to God, but to be returned at a fixed time;\nsoon she makes lofty gifts for the holy one,\nand teraphim and a temple to God; and, his lap filled,\nhis younger son, as priest, brings gifts to the Lord.\nAfterwards Micah chooses a young man from Judah and binds\nto himself one seeking a dwelling, with a heap of gifts,\nand, taken in, he earned God’s sanctuary by his vows.\nSee, the tribe of Dan, suddenly seeking new realms,\nsends five envoys from its company,\nsearching, to test everything, which portion of land\nis better, where then they might settle their homes.\nWhile they go round and survey the glades and byways,\nthey come to the man from Judah and fall into talk,\nasking what he does, what rites he practises; when asked,\nafter he had told them, compelled, he consults the commands\nof the high Lord God, and declared heaven’s favour,\nand commends them, bidding them depart.\nReturning, they told this to their people; and now in a dense column\nsix hundred come. They carry off the ephod and the carved image\nand the teraphim, and ask the man from Judah to stay with them.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.721 (CSEL 23:207lines 721–744–208; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-721)."},"cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7.745":{"o":"quem cum Micias profugum reuocare pararet,\npellitur; adscitus non uult remeare sacerdos.\nLaisa bello petitur tectisque crematis\namittit sedes et maestis denegat arces.\nuincentumque manus studio se conlocat illic\net nomen tribule dedit; nam Dana uocatur.\nVir quidam Leuita fuit, qui coniuge nulla\nconcubitum de serua petit. haec dedita cessit\ndissocians conmune iugum infensaque longe\nauolat et spreti refugit consortia lecti.\nquam cum sollicite uellet reuocare maritus.\nconmunem famulum secum et iumenta ducebat\nad socerum ueniens natamque ex foedere poscit;\npromittit blandeque fouet sensimque tenendo\ninlicit, ut secum maneat. mox ille residens\nuescitur et placida securus sede quiescit.","t":"When Micah prepared to call back the fugitive,\nhe is driven off; the priest, now adopted, does not wish to return.\nLaish is attacked in war and, its houses burned,\nloses its homes and is denied its citadels in grief.\nAnd the band of victors eagerly settles there\nand gave it the tribe’s name; for it is called Dan.\nThere was a certain man, a Levite, who, having no wife,\nseeks a concubine from among the slave women. She, given to him, yielded,\nthen, dissolving the shared yoke, hostile, flies far off\nand flees the partnership of the scorned bed.\nWhen her husband anxiously wished to call her back,\nhe was leading with him a servant they shared and beasts,\nand, coming to his father-in-law, asks for the daughter according to their covenant;\nthe father promises and gently cherishes him and, by detaining him,\ngradually entices him to stay with him. Soon he, settling down,\neats and rests untroubled in a peaceful home.","f":"Cyprianus Gallus, <i>Hept.</i> 7.745 (CSEL 23:208lines 745–760; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/cyprianus-gallus-heptateuchos/7-745)."}}