{"pomponius-versus-gratiam-domini/1":{"o":"[MEL.] Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi, / nescio qua praeter solitum dulcedine laetus, / fortunate senex! hic inter flumina nota / et fontis sacros deductos dicere uersus / et cantare paras diuino carmine, pastor, / formonsi pecoris custos, formonsior ipse. [TIT.] / Non incerta cano uatum praedicta priorum. / an quicquam nobis tali sit munere maius? / o Meliboee, deus haec nobis otia fecit. / namque erit ille mihi semper deus atque hominum rex, / omnipotens genitor, rerum cui summa potestas, / quem qui scire uelit, diuinum aspiret amorem. / haut ignota loquor, totum quae sparsa per orbem. / ipsi laetitia uoces ad sidera iactant / intonsi montes, ipsae iam carmina rupes, / ipsa sonant arbusta; deum namque ire per omnes / terrasque tractusque maris caelumque profundum / ne dubita — nam uera uides —, qui foedere certo / aeternis regit imperiis et temperat iras. / ni faciat, maria ac terras nox incubat atra. [MEL.] / Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas! / namque, fatebor enim, genus a quo principe nostrum, / audierat Stimicon: laudauit carmina nobis. / sis felix! nam te maioribus ire per altum / auspiciis manifesta fides pro laudibus istis. [TIT.] / Accipe daque fidem: neque est ignobile carmen. / maior agit deus atque opera ad maiora remittit. / unus qui nobis cunctando restituit rem, / ille operum custos, hominum rerumque repertor, / quo sine nil altum mens inchoat, ipse uolutat","t":"[Meliboeus] Tityrus, you who lie beneath the cover of the spreading beech,\nglad with some sweetness beyond your wont,\nfortunate old man! here among the familiar streams\nand sacred springs you make ready to recite your verses\nand to sing in divine song, shepherd,\nkeeper of a lovely flock, yourself more lovely.\n[Tityrus] No uncertain things I sing, the predictions of the prophets of old.\nCould anything be greater for us than such a gift?\nO Meliboeus, it is God who has made this rest for us.\nFor he will always be God to me and King of men,\nthe almighty Father, who holds supreme power over all things,\nwhom whoever wishes to know, let him breathe after divine love.\nI speak of things not unknown, things spread through the whole world.\nThe unshorn mountains themselves fling their voices in joy to the stars,\nthe very rocks now sing songs,\nthe very groves resound; for that God goes through all\nlands and tracts of sea and the depths of heaven,\ndo not doubt (for what you see is true), who by a fixed covenant\nrules with everlasting commands and tempers his wrath.\nDid he not do so, black night would brood over seas and lands.\n[Meliboeus] Happy the man who has been able to know the causes of things!\nFor, I will confess it, from what founder our race is sprung\nStimichon had heard: he praised your songs to us.\nGood fortune to you! for that you go over the deep under greater\nauspices, plain faith gives proof, in return for these praises.\n[Tityrus] Receive faith and give it: nor is the song ignoble.\nA greater God is at work and sends us back to greater works.\nHe alone, who by delaying restored our state,\nthat guardian of works, discoverer of men and things,\nwithout whom the mind begins nothing lofty, himself turns over in his mind","f":"Pomponius, <i>Vers. grat.</i> 1 (CSEL 16.1:609–611; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pomponius-versus-gratiam-domini/1)."},"pomponius-versus-gratiam-domini/121":{"o":"quo uitam dedit aeternam, quo mortis adempta est / condicio, et caelo tandem miseratus ab alto est. / respicit humanos pietas antiqua labores / exitiis positura modum, responsa dabantur / fida satis: manifesta fides secreta parentis. / ipse haec fert (caelo) celeris mandata per auras / interpres i t monitum spirantemque adfore uerbis, / seraque terrifici cecinerunt omina uates; / namque fore inlustrem dictis factisque canebant. / o quam te memorem, uirgo? cui mentem animumque / semine ab aetherio superis concessit ab oris / omnipotens.","t":"by which he gave eternal life, by which the condition of death\nwas taken away, and at last he took pity from high heaven.\nThe ancient mercy looks upon human labours,\nto set a limit to destruction; responses were given,\ntrustworthy enough: the Father's secret became plain faith.\nHe himself bears these commands from heaven through the swift airs;\nthe messenger goes ... and that he who breathes would be present in the words;\nand late the awe-inspiring prophets sang their omens;\nfor they sang that he would be renowned in words and deeds.\nO how shall I name you, maiden? to whom mind and spirit\nfrom heavenly seed, from the realms above, were granted\nby the Almighty.","f":"Pomponius, <i>Vers. grat.</i> 121 (CSEL 16.1:615; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pomponius-versus-gratiam-domini/121)."},"pomponius-versus-gratiam-domini/31":{"o":"quae sint, quae fuerint, quae mox uentura trahantur. / his etenim signis atque haec exempla secuti / esse animas partem diuinae mentis et haustus / aetherios dixere, quia sit diuinitus illis / ingenium. quamuis angusti terminus aeui / terrenique hebetant artus moribundaque membra, / at genus immortale manet: ne quaere doceri. / igneus est ollis uigor et caelestis origo, / et, cum frigida mors anima seduxerit artus, / has omnis, ubi mille rotam uoluere per annos, / tempora dinumerans deus euocat agmine magno. / reddunt se totidem facies terraeque dehiscunt. / sed reuocare gradum superasque euadere ad auras, / hoc uirtutis opus, terras temptare repostas / sideream in sedem atque alto succedere caelo. [MEL.] / Tityre, tamne aliquas ad caelum hinc ire putandum est / sublimis animas iterumque ad tarda reuerti / corpora? nos alia ex aliis in fata uocamur? / immortalis ego? pertemptant gaudia pectus, / si modo quod memoras factum contingere possit. / Ne dubita nulla fati quod lege tenetur: [TIT.] / crede deo — nam uera uides —, sine posse parentem. / quam minime re(ris) fato prudentia maior. [MEL.] / Credo equidem, nec uana fides; quis talia demens / abnuat? et me uictusque uolensque remitto: / stultus ego paruis componere magna solebam; / nec mea iam mutata loco sententia cedit. / unum oro: doceas iter, et sacra ostia pandas, / quidue sequens tantos possim superare labores. [(TIT.)] / Dicam equidem nec te suspensum, nate, tenebo,","t":"what things are, what have been, what are soon to be drawn on.\nFor by these signs and following these examples\nthey have said that souls are a part of the divine mind and draughts\nof the ether, because they have their nature\nfrom God. Although the limit of a narrow lifetime\nand earthly limbs and dying members dull them,\nyet the race remains immortal: seek no further teaching.\nFiery is their vigour and heavenly their origin;\nand when cold death has drawn the limbs away from the soul,\nall these, when they have rolled the wheel through a thousand years,\nGod, counting out the times, calls forth in a great throng.\nAs many faces return, and the earth gapes open.\nBut to retrace one's step and escape to the upper air,\nthis is the work of virtue: to make for the lands far removed,\nto the starry seat, and to mount up into high heaven.\n[Meliboeus] Tityrus, must we then think that some souls go hence to heaven\non high, and return again to sluggish\nbodies? Are we called from one fate into another?\nAm I immortal? Joys thrill my breast,\nif only what you tell of could come to pass.\n[Tityrus] Do not doubt: he is bound by no law of fate.\nBelieve God (for what you see is true); allow the Father his power.\nProvidence is greater than fate, as you least suppose.\n[Meliboeus] I believe indeed, nor is my faith vain; who is so mad\nas to deny such things? I yield myself, conquered and willing:\nfoolish, I used to compare great things with small;\nand my judgment, now changed, does not give ground.\nOne thing I beg: teach me the way, and open the sacred doors,\nor what I should follow to overcome such great labours.\n[Tityrus] I will tell you indeed, and not keep you in suspense, my son,","f":"Pomponius, <i>Vers. grat.</i> 31 (CSEL 16.1:611–612; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pomponius-versus-gratiam-domini/31)."},"pomponius-versus-gratiam-domini/61":{"o":"et quo quemque modo fugiasque ferasque laborem. / aude, hospes, contemnere opes: uia prima salutis. / intemerata fides et mens sibi conscia recti / praemia digna ferunt. freti pietate per ignem / inuenere uiam: requies ea certa laborum. / inuitant croceis halantes floribus horti / fortunatorum nemorum sedesque beatae / semper erunt, quorum melior sententia menti: / his locus urbis erit, diuini gloria ruris. / nam qui diuitiis soli incubuere repertis, / distulit in seram commissa piacula mortem, / ausi omnes immane nefas ausoque potiti / urgentur poenis. quam uellent aethere in alto / omnia et superas caeli uenisse sub auras. [MEL.] / Quae tibi, quae tali reddam pro carmine dona? / non opis est nostrae: nomen tollemus ad astra, / Tityre. discussae umbrae et lux reddita menti. [(TIT.)] / Non haec humanis opibus, non arte magistra / proueniunt: quae sit poteris cognoscere uirtus. / ni refugis, prima repetens ab origine pergam. [MEL.] / Immo age et a prima dic, hospes, origine nobis; / accipio agnoscoque libens ut uerba parentis. [TIT.] / Accipe: prisca fides facto, sed fama perennis. / nunc canere incipiam, quoniam conuenimus ambo / montibus in nostris: referunt ad sidera ualles. / magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo; / maius opus moueo: laudes et facta parentis. / nam neque erant astrorum ignes nec lucidus aethra / siderea polus, et nox obscura tenebat. / tum pater omnipotens rebus iam luce retectis","t":"and in what way you may flee or bear each labour.\nDare, guest, to despise wealth: this is the first way of salvation.\nUndefiled faith and a mind conscious of right\nbring worthy rewards. Trusting in piety, through fire\nthey found the way: that is sure rest from labours.\nGardens fragrant with saffron flowers invite them,\nand the seats of the fortunate groves and the blessed abodes\nwill always belong to those whose mind holds the better judgment:\ntheirs will be the place of the city, the glory of the divine countryside.\nBut those who have brooded alone over the wealth they found,\nwho have put off atonement for their sins till death came late,\nall who dared monstrous wrong and gained what they dared,\nare pressed by punishments. How they would wish, all of them,\nto have come into the high ether and beneath the upper airs of heaven!\n[Meliboeus] What gifts, what gifts can I give you for such a song?\nIt is beyond our power: we shall raise your name to the stars,\nTityrus. The shadows are scattered and light is restored to the mind.\n[Tityrus] Not by human means, not with art as teacher,\ndo these things come: you will be able to learn what power it is.\nUnless you shrink back, I will go on, tracing it from its first origin.\n[Meliboeus] Come then, guest, and tell it to us from its first origin;\nI receive the words and gladly recognize them as a father's.\n[Tityrus] Hear: belief in the deed is ancient, but its fame unending.\nNow I will begin to sing, since we two have met\nhere in our mountains: the valleys echo it to the stars.\nThe great order of the ages is born anew;\na greater work I set in motion: the praises and deeds of the Father.\nFor there were neither the fires of the stars nor a sky bright\nwith starry ether, and dark night held all.\nThen the almighty Father, uncovering things now with light,","f":"Pomponius, <i>Vers. grat.</i> 61 (CSEL 16.1:612–613; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pomponius-versus-gratiam-domini/61)."},"pomponius-versus-gratiam-domini/91":{"o":"aera dimouit tenebrosum et dispulit umbras. / principio caelum et terras solemque cadentem / lucentemque globum lunae camposque liquentes, / noctis iter, stellis numeros et nomina fecit: / unde hominum pecudumque genus uitaeque uolantum / et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus. / et medium luci atque umbris iam diuidit orbem / temporibusque parem diuersis quattuor annum. / nec torpere graui passus sua regna ueterno / mouit agros curis. acuens mortalia corda, / ut uarias usus meditando extunderet artes. / hic genus indocile ac dispersum montibus altis / composuit legemque dedit, dicione tenebat. / hinc populum late regem aeuoque superbum / uenturum excidio docuit post exitus ingens / uictor ab Aurorae populis et litore rubro. / tunc uictu reuocant uires, caelestia dona, / deterior donec paulatim ac decolor aetas / et belli rabies et amor successit habendi. / regnorum inmemores turpique cupidine capti. / tunc uariae inludunt pestes. malus abstulit error / Aegyptum uiresque Orientis: miranda uidentur / omnigenumque deum monstra et latrator Anubis. / quid delubra iuuant simulacraque luce carentum? / non tali auxilio nec defensoribus istis / tempus eget; cum uestra dies uoluentibus annis / uerba redarguerit, poena commissa luetis. / quin potius pacem aeternam et numinis (aram) / cuncti obtestemur? haec ara tuebitur omnis. / his actis aliud genitor secum ipse uolutat,","t":"moved apart the dark air and drove away the shadows.\nIn the beginning he made heaven and earth and the setting sun,\nand the shining globe of the moon and the liquid plains,\nthe path of night; for the stars he made numbers and names:\nwhence the race of men and cattle and the life of flying things,\nand the monsters the sea bears beneath its marble surface.\nAnd now he divides the world in the middle between light and darkness,\nand the year, equal, into four differing seasons.\nNor did he suffer his realms to grow torpid in heavy sloth;\nhe stirred the fields with cares, sharpening mortal hearts,\nthat practice by thought might hammer out the various arts.\nHere he gathered a race unteachable, scattered on the high mountains,\nand gave them a law, and held them under his sway.\nThence he taught that a people, ruling far and wide and proud in its age,\nwould come to destruction; afterwards a great going-out,\nvictorious from the peoples of the Dawn and the Red shore.\nThen they renew their strength with food, heaven's gifts,\nuntil little by little a worse and discoloured age\nand the madness of war and the love of having came in its place,\nunmindful of kingdoms and seized by base desire.\nThen various plagues mock them. Evil error carried off\nEgypt and the strength of the East: there are seen as marvels\nmonster gods of every kind and barking Anubis.\nWhat help are shrines and the images of those who lack light?\nNot for such aid nor for such defenders\ndoes the time call; when the day, as the years roll on,\nrefutes your words, you will pay the penalty for what you have done.\nWhy do we not rather all beseech eternal peace and the altar\nof the divine power? This altar will protect all.\nThese things done, the Father turns over in his mind another plan,","f":"Pomponius, <i>Vers. grat.</i> 91 (CSEL 16.1:613–615; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pomponius-versus-gratiam-domini/91)."}}