{"ps-cyprian-carmina/2.1":{"o":"Iam Deus omnipotens primaeui crimina saecli\nVindice diluuio cunctis aboleuerat undis,\nQuot caelum spargit, terra euomit, expuit aequor,\nHactenus et liquido poenas decernere pactus\nExcidio, quotiens hiemem conduceret aer,\nFrenandis uarium pluuiis mandauerat arcum\nPurpureo et uiridi signantem nubila limbo.\nIridis in nomen, propria est quae fibula nimbis.\nSed recidiua hominum pariter cum gente secunda\nImpietas iterumque mali noua pullulat aetas,\nSupplicio iam non imbres sortita, sed ignes :\nSic Sodomum meruit tellus ardentibus uri\nRoribus et finis portendere signa futuri.\nEffera luxuries illic inimica pudori\nInstar legis erat, fugeret quam praescius hospes,\nAnte penes Scythicas uel apud Busiridis aras\nExoptans per sacra necem caestuque cruorem\nSubdere Bebrycio, Libycas satiare palaestras,\nAnte etiam Circaea nouas per pocula formas\nSumere, quam laesum Sodomis amittere sexum.\nPulsabant caelum inuidia conubia (monstra),\nIncestu parili generis natura rebellis\nIn sese, laesumque uiri cum corpore nomen.","t":"Already God almighty had blotted out the crimes of the primeval age\nwith the avenging flood, with all the waters\nthat the sky scatters, the earth vomits up, the sea spits out;\nand, having covenanted from then on not to decree punishments by a liquid\ndestruction, whenever the air should gather a storm,\nhe had appointed the varied bow for restraining the rains,\nmarking the clouds with a hem of purple and green,\nunder the name of Iris, which is the clasp proper to the clouds.\nBut the impiety of men, springing up again together with the second race,\nand a new age of evil sprouts once more,\nallotted now for punishment not rains but fires:\nso the land of Sodom deserved to be burned by blazing\ndews and to foreshow the signs of the end to come.\nThere savage luxury, the enemy of modesty,\nwas as good as law; a forewarned guest would flee it,\npreferring at the Scythian altars or at the altars of Busiris\nto seek death through sacrifice, and with the boxing glove to yield his blood\nto the Bebrycian, or to glut the Libyan wrestling grounds,\npreferring even, through Circe's cups, to take on\nnew shapes, rather than lose his violated sex in Sodom.\nUnions (monstrosities!) beat upon heaven with ill will;\nwith like incest, nature rebelled against its own kind,\nagainst itself, and the name of man was violated along with his body.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 2.1 (CSEL 3.3:290lines 1–23; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/2-1)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/2.123":{"o":"Quin etiam si quis mutilauerit aduena formam,\nProtinus ex sese suggestu uulnera complet.\nDicitur et uiuens alio iam in corpore sexus\nMunifico solitos dispungere sanguine menses.\nIamque urbes nusquam Sodomum, gens impia nusquam,\nTota rogus regio est: hinc atro horrore fauillae\nHincque situ cano cineres incendia signant.\nNullus arat frustra piceas fuligine glebas.\nOccidit illa prior species, quam prospiciens Loth\nDiscretus patruo dites delegerat agros.\nSemiperempta etiam si qua illic iugera laetas\nAutumni conantur opes, facile optima esse\nPromittunt oculis pira persica et omnia mala,\nDonec carpere aues: nam protinus indice tactu\nSoluitur in cinerem uacui fallacia pomi.\nSic igitur caelo pariter terraque sepultis\nNec mare uiuit ibi, mors est maris ipsa maris pax,\nQua nullos animat per anhela uolumina fluctus\nQuaque etiam patrio numquam suspirat ab austro\nQuaque caret proferre aliquam de gurgite gentem\nSquamicutem uel leuicutem uel cortice saeptam,\nVel crispam concham aut duplici conpagine clusam.\nSolum illic propria metitur de fruge bitumen,\nExusti fuligo maris, quod uiuidus ardor\nSubter stagna coquens de sulphuris et salis aestu\nTemperat inque picem terris dat habere marinam :","t":"indeed, if any stranger mutilates her form,\nat once, welling up from herself, she fills up the wounds.\nIt is even said that, living now in another body, her sex\nstill discharges its customary months with bountiful blood.\nAnd now nowhere are the cities of Sodom, nowhere the impious people;\nthe whole region is a pyre: here with the black horror of ash,\nthere with the hoary rust of cinders they mark the burning.\nNo one ploughs, in vain, the clods pitchy with soot.\nThat former beauty has perished which Lot, looking out,\nwhen he parted from his uncle, had chosen as rich fields.\nEven if some half-destroyed acres there attempt\nthe glad wealth of autumn, they readily promise the eyes\nthat pears, peaches and all apples are of the best,\nuntil one longs to pluck them: for at once, at the betraying touch,\nthe deceit of the empty fruit dissolves into ash.\nThus then, heaven and earth buried alike,\nnot even the sea lives there; death is the sea's very peace:\nby it the sea stirs no waves in panting rolls,\nby it the sea never sighs from its native south wind,\nby it the sea lacks the power to bring forth any race from its depths,\nscaly-skinned or smooth-skinned or enclosed in a shell,\nor the crinkled conch, or that shut within a double fastening.\nOnly bitumen is harvested there as its own crop,\nthe soot of the burnt sea, which a lively heat,\ncooking it beneath the pools from the heat of sulphur and salt,\ntempers, and gives the lands to have a pitch from the sea:","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 2.123 (CSEL 3.3:294lines 123–148–296; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/2-123)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/2.149":{"o":"Inuehitur proprio sub tempore pingue crematae\nVirus aquae, spumaeque cutis super aequora nigrae\nTexitur. appellant quis est ea captio mercis,\nAdclinantque lenes laterum libramine lembos,\nVt semel inpositam doceant conscendere uenam:\nNam sese iam sponte leuans donabit inerti\nNauigio pessumque dabit prae munere largo,\nNi plaga contigerit qua menses femina uestit.\nEn aliud monstrum pelagi de clade notatur:\nCuncta illic inuita natant: natura recessit\nMergendis stata corporibus. si denique testam\nLuciferam nare instituas qua spiritus ignis,\nVelificabit apex flammae, si flamma perempta est,\nIbit subter aquas destructio naufraga lucis.\nHae Sodomum et Gomorum signatae in saecula poenae\nGentibus iniustis, corda in quis dura timorem\nDeseruere Dei, caelestia iura uereri\nInque unum rerum Dominum sperare docebunt.","t":"at its own season the rich venom of the burnt water\nis carried in, and a skin of black foam over the waters\nis woven. Those whose trade is that catch call it in,\nand tilt their light boats with a balancing of their sides,\nso as to teach the vein, once laid on, to climb aboard:\nfor, raising itself now of its own accord, it will give itself to the idle\nboat and will sink it to the bottom with its large bounty,\nunless that cloth touches it with which a woman clothes her months.\nLo, another wonder of the sea is noted from the disaster:\neverything there floats against its will; the nature fixed\nfor sinking bodies has withdrawn. If, finally,\nyou set a light-bearing lamp to float, where the breath of the fire is\nthe tip of the flame will sail; if the flame is put out,\nthe shipwrecked wreck of light will go beneath the waters.\nThese punishments of Sodom and Gomorrah, marked out for the ages,\nwill teach the unjust nations, from whose hard hearts\nthe fear of God has departed, to revere heaven's laws\nand to hope in the one Lord of all things.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 2.149 (CSEL 3.3:296lines 149–166–297; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/2-149)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/2.24":{"o":"Tempore sed certo Deus omnia prospeculatus,\nIudicat iniustos patiens, ubi criminis aetas\nCessandi spatium frustrata coegerat iram.\nIamque dies ultrix aderat: duo de grege missi.\nAngelico forma iuuenes qui spiritus ambo\nDiua ministeria, ut Domini mandata iubebant,\nSuccedunt Sodomis. illic de stirpe piorum\nTransuena Loth aequi sapiens iustique colonus\nVnus erat meminisse Deum: solet utilis arbor\nIn siluis latitare feris uelut hospite fructu.\nIs tunc pro porta residens (uix moenia adibant\nCaelicolae) quamquam diuinos inscius ultro\nAduocat adpellat patrio ueneratur honore\nHospitioque uocat, longe stabulare parantes:\nEnisus longis precibus, pia pignera mensae\nOfficiumque probum studio dispungit amico.\nNox requiem dederat, lux soluerat altera noctem,\nEt Sodoma in foribus strepitat cum lege pudenda.\nLoth contra supplex: ne uos male pasta libido\nIncendat iuuenes istam foedare iuuentam:\nLuxu quo genitura uacat ? quo semina frustra?\nQuo nullae nuptant animae, non lustra colentes,\nNon stabulis reduces, non undis subter hiantes,\nNec quae pennarum modulis prope nubila pendent,\nNec quae per terras protracto corpore manant.","t":"But at a fixed time God, who had foreseen all things,\njudges the unjust in patience, when the age of crime\nhad frustrated the space given for ceasing and had compelled his anger.\nAnd now the avenging day was at hand: two sent from the host,\nyouths in angelic form, both of them spirits,\non divine service, as the Lord's commands enjoined,\ncome up to Sodom. There, of the stock of the pious,\nLot, a newcomer, wise in equity and a dweller in justice,\nwas the one man to remember God: so a fruitful tree is wont\nto lie hidden in wild woods, its fruit a guest there.\nHe then, sitting before the gate (the heaven-dwellers were scarcely\nreaching the walls), though unaware that they were divine, of his own accord\ncalls to them, addresses them, honors them with a father's reverence,\nand invites them to lodge, though they meant to put up far off;\nprevailing by long entreaties, he discharges with friendly zeal\nthe holy pledges of the table and the honest duty of a host.\nNight had given rest, the next light had dissolved the night,\nand Sodom clamors at the doors with its shameful law.\nLot, facing them, a suppliant: “Let not ill-fed lust\ninflame you young men to defile this youth:\nto what end a lust in which begetting is void? to what end seed in vain?\nTo such no living creatures are wed: not those that haunt the lairs,\nnot those that come back to the stalls, not those that gape beneath the waves,\nnor those that hang near the clouds with the measured beat of wings,\nnor those that flow over the earth with their bodies stretched out.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 2.24 (CSEL 3.3:290lines 24–48–291; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/2-24)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/2.49":{"o":"Omne genus nixu genuit, est femina coniunx\nOmnibus, et numquam cuiquam nisi femina mater.\nNunc si fax iuuenalis auet uastare pudorem,\nSunt intus natae biiuges mihi, nubilis aetas,\nVirginitas in fiore tumens, iam debita messi,\nDigna cupido uiris, tulerit qua uestra uoluntas:\nDedo pater proque hospitibus pensabo dolorem.\nVulgus ad haec demens: quisnam tu, quantus, et unde\nQui nostris dominere animis legesque recondas?\nTransuena non rector Sodomorum iugera libras.\nNunc igitur tute ipse lues, quod nostra cupido est\nPro natis proque hospitibus: satis unus in omnes.\nDicta et facta simul: uulgi mora nulla furentis.\nTurbidus hiberno ceu uoluitur impete torrens,\nRiuorum innumeros uno pede subuehit amnes:\nSi qua illic arbor rapidis offenditur undis,\nHaud mansura diu quantum radice licebit\nCrinitas durare moras, ubi subter adesam\nPerdit humum circumfosso iam caudice pendens,\nHuc illuc certam differt incerta ruinam.\nHaud aliter Loth in media uertigine uulgi\nNutabat uinci prope iam: sed diua potestas\nSubuenit, angelici iuuenes de limine raptum\nRestituunt tectis: demens sed uulgus ibidem\nPoenarum auspiciis interdum lumine multant.","t":"Every kind has brought forth by its striving; the female is the mate\nof all, and never is anyone's mother other than a female.\nNow if youthful passion is eager to lay waste to modesty,\nI have two daughters inside, of marriageable age,\ntheir virginity swelling in flower, already due for the harvest,\na desire worthy of men; take them wherever your will may lead:\nI, their father, give them up, and for my guests I will bear the grief.”\nAt this the crazed crowd: “Who are you, how great, and from where,\nto lord it over our minds and lay down laws?\nA newcomer, not a ruler, you weigh out the acres of Sodom.\nNow therefore you yourself shall pay for what our desire is,\nin place of daughters and guests: one is enough for all.”\nSaid and done at once: no delay in the raging mob.\nAs a torrent rolls on in a wintry onrush\nand carries countless streams of brooks in one course:\nif any tree there is struck by the rushing waters,\nnot to stand for long, so far as its root will allow\nits hairy fibers to hold out in delay, when, the ground eaten away beneath,\nit loses its soil and hangs with its trunk now dug around,\nthis way and that, unsteady, it puts off its certain fall:\njust so Lot in the midst of the mob's whirl\nwas tottering, almost overcome now; but divine power\ncame to help: the angelic youths snatch him from the threshold\nand bring him back inside; and the crazed crowd, right there,\nas a first omen of punishment, they strike with loss of sight.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 2.49 (CSEL 3.3:291lines 49–73–292; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/2-49)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/2.74":{"o":"Tum decreta Dei reserant, dignam affore poenam\nDe caelo Sodomis, ipsum meruisse salutem\nIustitiae titulo: quin ergo accingeris istinc\nFestinare fugam pariterque educere si quem\nGentis habes: nos exitium iam inducimus urbi.\nLoth generos citus alloquitur, sed dura hominum mens\nCredere despexit monitum risitque timorem.\nTempore mox quo lux tenebras iam scindere temptat\nEt bicolor caeli facies de nocte dieque est\nInstabant iuuenes Chaldaeam educere gentem\nEx Sodomis iustamque domum donare saluti:\nEia age Loth exsurge tuamque adsume iugalem\nEt natas duplices atque hinc exterminus ito\nPraeueniens Sodomum poenas. manibus quoque amicis\nProducunt trepidos et ibidem cetera mandant:\nSerua Loth animam neu uisum in terga retrorsum\nVertere forte uelis coeptum uel sistere gressum,\nIn montem. propera. timuit Loth ardua tardo.\nEreptare gradu, caelestes ne prius irae\nOpprimerent illos: alios deposcere portus\nAggreditur, paruam quam contra aspexerat urbem.\nHuc, inquit, fuga sit, certe uix moenibus extat,\nNec longe, nec magna mihi. fauere pauenti,\nVrbis et ipsius pariter cessere salutem:\nSegor inde loco nomen uox barbara nouit.","t":"Then they unlock God's decrees: a fitting punishment would come\nfrom heaven upon Sodom; he himself had deserved salvation\nby right of justice: “Why then do you not gird yourself\nto hasten your flight from here, and bring out with you any\nof your family you have? We are now bringing destruction on the city.”\nLot quickly speaks to his sons-in-law, but the hard mind of men\nscorned to believe the warning and laughed at his fear.\nSoon, at the time when light already tries to cleave the darkness\nand the face of the sky is two-colored, of night and of day,\nthe youths pressed to lead the Chaldean family out\nof Sodom and to grant the just household salvation:\n“Come now, Lot, rise up, take your wife\nand your two daughters, and go from here an exile,\ngetting ahead of Sodom's punishment.” And with friendly hands\nthey lead out the trembling ones and there give them the rest of their orders:\n“Save your life, Lot, and do not choose to turn your gaze\nbackward, or halt the step you have begun:\nto the mountain; hurry.” Lot feared to clamber up the heights\nwith his slow step, lest heaven's anger overtake them\nfirst: he sets about asking for another haven,\na small city that he had seen over against them.\n“Let our flight be here,” he says, “it surely scarcely stands out by its walls,\nnot far, and not great for me.” They favored the frightened man\nand granted salvation to the city itself as well:\nhence the barbarian tongue knew the place by the name Segor.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 2.74 (CSEL 3.3:292lines 74–98–293; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/2-74)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/2.99":{"o":"Tunc Loth ingreditur Segor, simul exoritur sol,\nVltimus ille quidem Sodomis, iam incendia feruens\nIratus toto radios armauerat igni.\nAemula subseritur caligo, includere lucem\nCoeptans atque globos confuso intexere caelo.\nFumantes coeunt nubes, nouus inruit imber,\nSulphura cum flammis, flagrat cahos, aestuat aether,\nExustus crepitat liquidis ardoribus aer.\nHinc habet in falsum de uero fabula famam,\nSolis progeniem currus optasse paternos\nNec ualuisse lenem puerum frenare superbos\nSolis equos, arsisse orbem: tunc fulmine raptum\nAurigam, inlicitum planctum mutasse sorores.\nViderit Eridanus, si qua illic populus albet,\nSi quis ibi senio plumat modulatior ales.\nHic aliter uersae maerent miracula formae.\nNamque comes coniuncx eheu male tunc quoque legis\nFemina diuinae patiens ad murmura caeli\nAudaces oculos nequiquam pone retorsit,\nNon habitura loqui quod uiderat: et simul illic\nIn fragilem mutata salem stetit ipsa sepulcrum\nIpsa et imago, sibi formam sine corpore seruans:\nDurat adhuc etenim nuda statione sub aethra,\nNec pluuiis dilapsa situ nec diruta uentis:","t":"Then Lot enters Segor, and at once the sun rises,\nthe last indeed for Sodom, already glowing with fires;\nin anger it had armed its rays with all its flame.\nA rival gloom creeps in beneath, attempting to shut in the light\nand to weave masses into the confused sky.\nSmoking clouds gather, a new rain rushes down,\nsulphur with flames; chaos blazes, the upper air seethes,\nthe scorched air crackles with liquid burnings.\nFrom this the fable has its false report drawn from the truth,\nthat the Sun's offspring desired his father's chariot\nand that the gentle boy could not rein the proud\nhorses of the Sun, that the world burned; that then the charioteer\nwas snatched away by lightning, and his sisters changed their forbidden lament.\nLet the Eridanus see to it, if any poplar grows white there,\nif any more tuneful bird grows its plumes there in old age.\nHere the marvels of another changed form mourn.\nFor his companion and wife, alas, ill then too with the law,\na woman, hearing the divine rumblings of heaven,\nin vain turned her bold eyes behind,\nnever to speak of what she had seen; and at once there,\nchanged into fragile salt, she stood, herself her own tomb\nand herself her own image, keeping her shape without a body:\nfor she endures still, in her bare station under the open sky,\nneither dissolved by rains through decay nor torn down by winds;","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 2.99 (CSEL 3.3:293lines 99–122–294; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/2-99)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/3.1":{"o":"Post Sodomum et Gomorum uiuentia funera in aeuum,\nEt cinerum senio signata incendia poenae,\nEt frustra solis oculis nascentia poma,\nEt pariter facti mortem maris et salis illic,\nSi quid homo est poenam mutato corpore seruans,\nPaene alios ignis superi decusserat imbris\nVrbs aequi iustique uiam transgressa Niniue.\nNam quis subuersae menti metus ? omnia uulgo\nPoenarum documenta uacant ubi possidet error.\nAt bonus et nostri patiens et plectere serus\nOmnipotens Dominus nullam iaculabitur iram,\nNi prius admoneat durataque pectora pulset,\nPraesagos agitans augusta mente prophetas.\nIamque Niniuitum meritis mandarat Ionan\nPraefari exitium Dominus : sed conscius ille\nParcere subiectis et debita cedere poenae\nSupplicibus facilemque boni, cessabat abire,\nNe uanum caneret, cessura pace minarum.\nMox fuga consilium, si qua est tamen ista facultas,\nEuitare Deum Dominique euadere dextram,\nQuo subter totus trepidans compescitur orbis.\nAn ratio est quod agit sancto de corde prophetes?\nLitoris in labio portu celeberrima fido\nVrbs oras Cilicum contra libratur Ioppe.","t":"After Sodom and Gomorrah, funerals living through the ages,\nand burnings of punishment marked by the hoariness of ashes,\nand fruits that spring up in vain for the eyes alone,\nand likewise the death of the sea, and the salt that was made there,\nif a human being is something that keeps its punishment in a changed body:\nthe fire of a rain from above had almost struck down another,\nNineveh, a city that had transgressed the way of equity and justice.\nFor what fear has a perverted mind? To the crowd all\nlessons of punishment are empty where error holds possession.\nBut the good Lord almighty, patient with us and slow to strike,\nwill hurl no anger\nunless he first warns and beats upon hardened hearts,\nstirring up prophets, foreknowing, by his august mind.\nAnd now the Lord had commanded Jonah to foretell destruction\nto the Ninevites for their deserts; but he, knowing\nthat the Lord spares the submissive and remits punishment owed\nto suppliants and is easily moved to goodness, delayed to go,\nlest he sing in vain, the threats giving way to peace.\nSoon flight was his plan, if that is indeed in any way possible,\nto avoid God and escape the Lord's right hand,\nbeneath which the whole trembling world is held in check.\nOr is there reason in what the prophet does from his holy heart?\nOn the lip of the shore, most famous for its trusty harbor,\nfacing the coasts of the Cilicians, lies the city Joppa.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 3.1 (CSEL 3.3:298lines 1–24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/3-1)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/3.25":{"o":"Inde igitur Tarsos properus rate poscit Ionas,\nEiusdem per stagna dei: nec denique mirum,\nSi Dominum in terris fugiens inuenit in undis.\nParuula nam subito maculauerat aera nubes,\nVellere sulphureo de semine concita uenti,\nPaulatimque globum pariens cum sole cohaesit,\nDeceptumque diem caliginis agmine clusit.\nFit speculum caeli pelagus, niger ambitus undas\nInficit, in tenebras ruit aether et mare surgit:\nNec quicquam medium est, fluctus dum nubila tangit,\nAtria uentorum, quos omnes turbine miscet.\nDiuersus furor in profugum frendebat Ionan.\nVna ratis certamen erat caeloque fretoque,\nTunditur hinc illinc, tremit omnis silua sub ictu\nFluctifrago, subter concussae spina carinae\nPalpitat, antemnae stridens labor horret ab alto,\nIpse etiam infringi dubitans inflectitur arbor.\nNauticus interea gemitus timor omnia temptat\nPro rate proque anima: spiras mandare morantis,\nOblaqueare mithram, clauorum stringere nisus,\nVellere luctantes, impellere pectore gyros:\nPars maris interni puteum grauem odore uicissim\nEgregie rapiunt, tum merces atque onus omne\nPraecipitant certantque pericula uincere damnis.\nTum miserae uoces ad singula fragmina ponti,","t":"From there, then, Jonah in haste seeks Tarsus by ship,\nover the waters of the same God; and indeed no wonder\nif, fleeing the Lord on land, he found him in the waves.\nFor suddenly a tiny cloud had stained the air,\nroused from a sulphurous seed by the fleece of the wind,\nand little by little, bringing forth a mass, it closed with the sun\nand shut in the deceived day with a column of darkness.\nThe sea becomes a mirror of the sky; a black circuit\nstains the waves; the upper air rushes into darkness and the sea rises:\nnor is there anything between, as the wave touches the clouds,\nthe halls of the winds, all of which it mingles in a whirlwind.\nVaried fury gnashed against the fugitive Jonah.\nThe one ship was the contest of sky and sea;\nit is beaten this way and that; all its timber trembles under the wave-breaking\nblow; below, the spine of the shaken keel\nthrobs; the screeching toil of the yard shudders from on high;\nthe mast itself, uncertain whether to break, is bent.\nMeanwhile the sailors' groaning fear tries everything\nfor the ship and for life: to pay out the coils of the cable,\nto unlace the girding band, to tighten the strain of the tillers,\nto haul at the struggling ropes, to push the capstan round with their chests:\nsome, in turn, vigorously bail out the well of the inner sea, heavy with stench,\nthen they hurl overboard the wares and all the cargo\nand strive to overcome the perils by their losses.\nThen wretched voices at each crash of the sea,","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 3.25 (CSEL 3.3:298lines 25–49–299; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/3-25)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/3.50":{"o":"Expansantque manus nullorum ad numina diuum,\nQuos maris et caeli uis non timet, haud minus illos\nPuppibus abstrusos irato turbine mergens.\nNescius haec reus ipse cauo sub fornice puppis\nStertentem inflata resonabat nare soporem,\nIam tunc in somno Domini formando figuram.\nHunc simul undisecae qui cogit munia prorae\nPace soporatum placida, requiete superbum .\nInstitit inpulsans: quid, ait, discrimine in isto?\nSomnia nare canis? tantoque in turbine portum\nSolus habes? en uncia operit, spes unica diuum est.\nTu quoque, quisque tibi Deus est, dic uota precesque\nIndigetans patrium supplex inflectito numen.\nExin quis culpae proprior, quis causa procellae\nDiscere sorte placet, nec sors mentitur Ionan.\nTunc rogitant: quis et unde hominum, quis denique rerum,\nQuo populo, qua sede cluis? famulum ille fatetur\nPraetimidumque Dei, qui caelum sustulit alte,\nQui terram posuit, qui totum corpore fudit:\nIpsius et sese profugum causasque reuelat.\nDeriguere metu quid nos igitur tibi culpae?\nQuid fore nunc ? quonam placabimus aequora pacto?\nNamque magis multoque magis freta saeua tumebant.\nTum Domini uates ingestu spiritus infit:","t":"and they spread out their hands to the powers of gods that are nothing,\nwhom the force of sea and sky does not fear, drowning them no less\nin angry whirlwind, hidden away as they are in the sterns.\nUnaware of this, the guilty one himself, under the hollow vault of the stern,\nwas sounding out a snoring sleep with puffed-out nose,\nalready then in sleep forming a figure of the Lord.\nHim, slumbering in calm peace, proud in his rest,\nthe one who directs the duties of the wave-cutting prow\npressed upon, nudging him: “What,” he says, “in this peril\ndo you sing dreams through your nose? And in such a whirlwind do you alone\nhave a harbor? Look, it is overwhelming us; the one hope is in the gods.\nYou too, whoever your god is, speak vows and prayers,\nand, calling on him, bend your ancestral deity as a suppliant.”\nThen they decide to learn by lot who is nearer the guilt, who is the cause\nof the storm; and the lot does not lie about Jonah.\nThen they ask: “Who are you, and from where among men, what in short is your business,\nof what people, from what home are you called?” He confesses himself the servant\nwho deeply fears God, who raised the heavens on high,\nwho set the earth in place, who poured out the whole mass of things,\nand he reveals that he is His fugitive, and why.\nThey stiffened with fear: “What fault of yours, then, is ours?\nWhat will happen now? By what pact shall we calm the waters?”\nFor the cruel straits were swelling more and much more.\nThen the Lord's prophet, at the prompting of the spirit, begins:","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 3.50 (CSEL 3.3:299lines 50–73–300; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/3-50)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/3.74":{"o":"En ego tempestas, ego tota insania mundi,\nIn me, inquit, uobis aether ruit et mare surgit,\nIn me terra procul, mors proxima, nulla Dei spes.\nQuin dato praecipitem causam, nauemque leuantes\nVnum onus hoc magnum pelago iactate uolenti.\nAst illi frustra nituntur uertere cursum\nIn reditum, nec clauus enim torqueri sinebat,\nDura nec antemnae mutari libra uolebat.\nPostremo ad Dominum: ne nos in mortis hiatum\nVnam animam propter dederis nec sanguine iusto\nRespersisse uelis, si sic tua dextera ducit.\nIamque illic imo exoriens e gurgite cetus\nSquamosum conchis euoluens corporis agmen,\nVrguebat propius concusso marmore fluctus,\nSponte dei praedam rapiens, quam puppis ab arce\nProuolutatam limosis faucibus hausit,\nViuentemque dapem longam properauit in aluum,\nCumque uiro caeli rabiem pelagique uorauit.\nSternitur aequoris unda, resoluitur aetheris umbra.\nHinc fluctus, illinc flatus redduntur amici,\nSecuramque uiam placida signante carina\nCandida caeruleo florent uestigia sulco.\nNauita tum Domino laetus uenerando timorem\nSacrificat grates, tum portus intrat amicos.\nNauigat et uates alio susceptus Ionas\nNauigio fluctusque secat sub fluctibus imis,\nViscera uelificans, anima spirante ferina,\nConclusus neque tinctus aquis, maris intimus exter,\nInter semesas classes resolutaque putri .\nCorpora digestu, sua iam iam funera discens.\nIn signum sed enim Domini quandoque futurus,\nNon erat exitio, sed mortis testis abactae.","t":"“Look, I am the storm, I am the whole madness of the world;\nbecause of me,” he says, “the upper air falls upon you and the sea rises,\nbecause of me land is far off, death very near, no hope from God.\nRather, throw the cause headlong, and, lightening the ship,\ncast this one great burden into the willing sea.”\nBut they strive in vain to turn their course\nback toward return, for the tiller would not let itself be turned,\nnor would the hard balance of the yards be changed.\nAt last, to the Lord: “Do not give us into the gaping jaws of death\nfor the sake of one soul, nor will that we be spattered\nwith righteous blood, if your right hand leads thus.”\nAnd now there, rising from the deepest abyss, a sea-monster,\nrolling out the scaly column of its body with its shells,\nwas pressing nearer on the waves, the marble surface shaken,\nseizing at God's will the prey which, rolled down from the height\nof the stern, it swallowed with its slimy jaws,\nand it hurried the living feast down into its long belly,\nand with the man it devoured the rage of sky and sea.\nThe wave of the sea is laid flat, the shadow of the sky dispersed.\nOn this side the waves, on that the winds are made friendly again,\nand as the keel marks out a safe path in the calm,\nwhite tracks bloom in the blue furrow.\nThen the sailor, glad, sacrifices to the Lord his reverent\nfear and his thanks, then enters friendly harbors.\nAnd the prophet Jonah sails too, taken up by another\nvessel, and cuts the waves beneath the lowest waves,\nsailing in entrails, a beast's breath breathing for him,\nshut in and not wetted by the waters, inmost in the sea and outside it,\namong half-eaten fleets and bodies dissolved\nby putrid digestion, now learning his own funeral.\nBut as a sign of the Lord who was one day to come,\nhe was not for destruction, but a witness of death driven off.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 3.74 (CSEL 3.3:300lines 74–105–301; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/3-74)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/4.1":{"o":"Cum te diuersis iterum uanisque uiderem\nInseruire sacris priscoque errore teneri,\nObstipui motus. quia carmina semper amasti,\nCarmine respondens properaui scribere uersus\nVt te corriperem: tenebras praeponere luci\nQuis patiatur enim, te matrem credere magnam\nPosse deam dici rursusque putare colendam,\nCuius cultores infamia turpis inurit?\nNamque sacerdotes tunicis muliebribus idem\nInterius uitium cultu exteriore fatentur,\nIdque licere putant quod non licet: unde per urbem\nLeniter incedunt mollita uoce loquentes,\nLassatosque tenent extenso pollice lumbos\nEt proprium mutant uulgato crimine sexum.\nCumque suos celebrant ritus, his esse diebus\nSe castos memorant: at si tantummodo tunc sunt\nVt perhibent casti, reliquo iam tempore quid sunt?\nSed quia coguntur saltim semel esse pudici,\nMente fremunt, lacerant corpus funduntque cruorem.\nQuale sacrum est uero quod fertur nomine sanguis ?\nNunc etiam didici, quod te non fecerit aetas\nSed tua religio caluum, caligaque remota\nGallica sit pedibus molli redimita papyro.\nRes miranda satis deiectaque culmine summo:","t":"When I saw you once more in the service of diverse and empty\nrites, and held fast by the ancient error,\nI was struck with dismay. Because you have always loved poetry,\nanswering in a poem I have hastened to write verses\nto rebuke you: for who would bear darkness being preferred\nto light, your believing that the Great Mother\ncan be called a goddess, and your thinking her again to be worshipped,\nwhose worshippers foul infamy brands?\nFor her priests in women's tunics\nconfess by their outward dress the same inner vice,\nand think that lawful which is not lawful: hence through the city\nthey walk softly, speaking in a softened voice,\nand hold their weary loins with outstretched thumb,\nand change their own sex by a crime made public.\nAnd when they celebrate their rites, on those days\nthey say they are chaste: but if they are chaste only then,\nas they claim, what are they the rest of the time?\nBut because they are forced to be modest at least once,\nthey rage in mind, lacerate their body and pour out blood.\nWhat kind of sacred rite is it that truly goes by the name of blood?\nNow too I have learned that it was not age that made you\nbald but your religion, and that, your boot set aside,\na Gallic sandal is on your feet, bound with soft papyrus.\nA thing marvelous enough, and cast down from the highest summit:","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 4.1 (CSEL 3.3:303lines 1–24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/4-1)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/4.25":{"o":"Si quis ab Isiaco consul procedat in urbem,\nRisus oris erit: quis te non rideat autem,\nQui fueris consul, nunc Isidis esse ministrum ?\nQuodque pudet primo, te non pudet esse secundo,\nIngeniumque tuum turpes damnare per hymnos\nRespondente tibi uulgo et lacerante senatu,\nTeque domo propria pictum cum fascibus olim,\nNunc quoque cum sistro faciem portare caninam.\nAn haec humilitas? est humilitatis imago.\nAedibus illa tuis semper monumenta manebunt.\nRumor et ad nostras peruenit publicus aures\nTe dixisse: dea, erraui, ignosce, rediui.\nDic mihi si ualeas, cum talia saepe rogares\nEt ueniam peteres, quae tecum uerba locuta est ?\nVere mente cares, sequeris qui mente carentes.\nHaec iterum repetis nec te delinquere sentis.\nQuid mereare uide: minus esses forte notandus,\nSi tantum hoc scires et in hoc errore maneres:\nAt cum uericolae penetraueris ostia legis\nEt tibi nosse Deum paucis prouenerit annis,\nCur linquenda tenes aut cur retinenda relinquis?\nNilque colis, dum cuncta colis: nec corde retractas,\nVera quid a falsis, quid ab umbris lumina distant.\nPhilosophum fingis, cum te sententia mutet:","t":"if a consul came out of a temple of Isis into the city,\nhe would be the laughing stock of every mouth: but who would not laugh at you,\nwho were a consul, to be now a minister of Isis?\nAnd what shames a man the first time, you are not ashamed to be a second time,\nand to condemn your talent by foul hymns,\nthe crowd answering you and the senate tearing you to pieces,\nand you, once painted in your own house with the fasces,\nnow also carrying a dog's face with the sistrum.\nIs this humility? It is an image of humility.\nThese monuments will always remain in your house.\nAnd public rumor has reached even our ears\nthat you said: “Goddess, I erred, forgive me, I have come back.”\nTell me, if you can: when you often asked such things\nand sought pardon, what words did she speak with you?\nTruly you lack a mind, you who follow those who lack a mind.\nThese things you repeat again and do not feel that you are sinning.\nSee what you deserve: perhaps you would be less to be censured\nif you knew only this and remained in this error:\nbut when you had entered the doors of the truth-worshipping law\nand it was granted you in a few years to know God,\nwhy do you hold what should be left, or leave what should be held?\nAnd you worship nothing, while you worship everything; nor do you consider in your heart\nhow true differs from false, light from shadows.\nYou play the philosopher, while your opinion keeps changing you:","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 4.25 (CSEL 3.3:303lines 25–48–304; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/4-25)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/4.49":{"o":"Nam tibi si stomachum popularis monent ira,\nEt Iudaeus eris totusque incertus haberis.\nIndulge dictis, sapientia non placet alta.\nOmne quod est nimium contra cadit: unum operantur\nEt calor et frigus: sic hoc, sic illud adurit.\nSic tenebrae uisum, sic sol contrarius aufert,\nEt pariter laedunt gelidum feruensque lauacrum:\nEsca alitur corpus, corpus corrumpitur esca,\nVimque suam minuit, si quid protenditur ultra.\nDenique si sedeas, requies est magna laboris:\nSi multum sedeas, labor est. Maro namque poeta\nPro poena posuit: sedet aeternumque sedebit\nInfelix Theseus. semper nocet utile longum :\nPrandia longa nocent, ieiunia longa fatigant.\nSic nimium sapere stultum facit. 'improba secta,\nMe dea sic docuit, moderamen amabile dixit*.\nSed tu nec sectam modo nec moderamina curas.\nMens autem stabilis nullo peruertitur aestu\nIpsaque simplicitas numquam mala cogitat ulla.\nHinc sincera fides aeterna sede fruetur,\nEt dolus e contra longo cruciabitur igni.\nElige quid uelis, ut digna piacula uites.\nSic tamen hanc ueniam mereatur creditor inquam.\nVt leue crimen erit, si nolis noscere uera:\nNon leue crimen erit, si cognita uera relinquas.","t":"for if popular anger stirs your stomach,\nyou will be a Jew too, and be held wholly unstable.\nIndulge my words: lofty wisdom does not please.\nEverything that is too much falls the opposite way: heat and cold\nwork one thing: this one, that one, both burn.\nSo darkness takes away sight, so does the sun, its opposite,\nand cold and hot baths alike do harm:\nthe body is nourished by food, the body is corrupted by food,\nand it lessens its own force if anything is stretched beyond measure.\nThen, if you sit, it is a great rest from labor:\nif you sit much, it is labor. For Maro the poet\nset it down as a punishment: “he sits and for ever will sit,\nunhappy Theseus.” What is useful always harms when long:\nlong lunches harm, long fasts weary.\nSo too much wisdom makes a fool. “The sect is shameless;\nthe goddess so taught me, she said moderation is lovable…”\nBut you care neither for a sect nor for moderation.\nBut a stable mind is overturned by no surge,\nand simplicity itself never thinks any evil.\nHence sincere faith will enjoy an eternal seat,\nand guile, on the contrary, will be tormented by long fire.\nChoose what you will, so as to avoid the penalties due.\nYet, I say, let a believer deserve this pardon:\nthat it will be a light crime if you do not wish to know the truth;\nit will not be a light crime if you abandon truths once known.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 4.49 (CSEL 3.3:304lines 49–73; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/4-49)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/4.74":{"o":"Sed te correctum forsan matura senectus\nIn melius reuocat satiatum erroribus istis:\nTempus enim mutat mala, digerit omnia tempus.\nTunc igitur cum te consulta reduxerit aetas,\nDisce Deo seruare fidem, ne forte bis unum\nIncurras lapsum, quia uere dicitur illud:\nQui pedis offensi lapidem uitare secundo\nNescit et incautus iterum uexauerit artus,\nImputet ipse sibi nec casibus imputet ullis.\nCorrige delictum fidamine, corrige mentem.\nSuffecit peccare semel, desiste uereri:\nNon erit in culpa. quem paenitet ante fuisse.","t":"But perhaps ripe old age, having corrected you,\ncalls you back to the better, sated with these errors:\nfor time changes evils, time sets all things in order.\nThen, therefore, when well-counseled age has led you back,\nlearn to keep faith with God, lest you happen twice\nto incur the one fall, because this is truly said:\nhe who does not know how to avoid a second time the stone his foot struck\nand, unwary, bruises his limbs again,\nlet him blame himself and not blame any chance.\nCorrect your offense by faithfulness, correct your mind.\nIt was enough to have sinned once; stop fearing:\nhe will not be at fault who repents of what he was before.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 4.74 (CSEL 3.3:304lines 74–85–305; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/4-74)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/5.1":{"o":"Est locus ex omni medius quem credimus orbe,\nGolgotha Iudaei patrio cognomine dicunt:\nHic ego de sterili succisum robore lignum\nPlantatum memini fructus genuisse salubres:\nNon tamen hos illis qui se posuere coloni\nPraebuit, externi fructus habuere beatos.\nArboris haec species: uno de stipite surgit\nEt mox in geminos extendit brachia ramos,\nSicut plena graues antemnae carbasa tendunt\nVel cum disiunctis iuga sunt ab aratro iuuencis.\nQuem tulit hoc primo maturo semine lapsum\nConcepit tellus: mox hinc (mirabile dictu)\nTertia lux iterum terrae superisque tremendum\nExtulerat ramum uitali fruge beatum.\nSed bis uicenis con firmiter illo diebus\nCreuit in immensum caelumque cacumine summo\nContigit et tandem sanctum caput abdidit alte,\nDum tamen ingenti bis senos pondere ramos\nEdidit et totum spargens porrexit in orbem,\nGentibus ut cunctis uictum uitamque perennem\nPraeberent mortemque mori qui posse docerent.\nExplicitis etiam mox quinquaginta diebus\nVertice de summo diuini nectaris haustum\nDetulit in ramos caelestis spiritus aura:\nDulci rore graues manabant undique frondes.","t":"There is a place which we believe to be the middle of the whole world;\nthe Jews call it Golgotha in their ancestral speech:\nhere I remember that a tree, cut from a barren trunk,\nwas planted and bore saving fruits;\nyet it did not offer them to those settlers who planted it;\noutsiders had the blessed fruits.\nThis is the tree's appearance: it rises from one stem\nand soon stretches out its arms into twin branches,\nas yards stretch heavy, full sails,\nor like yokes when the oxen are unyoked from the plough.\nWhat it bore first, fallen with ripe seed,\nthe earth conceived: soon from it (wonderful to tell)\nthe third light had again brought up, dreadful to earth and those above,\na branch blessed with life-giving fruit.\nBut after twice twenty days, firmly established in it,\nit grew to an immense height and touched the sky with its topmost crown,\nand at last hid its holy head on high,\nwhile yet it put forth twice six branches of great weight\nand, spreading them, extended them through the whole world,\nthat they might offer to all nations food and life everlasting\nand teach that death itself can die.\nAnd soon, when fifty days had been completed,\nfrom the very summit the heavenly breath of the Spirit\nbrought down a draught of divine nectar into the branches:\nthe leaves dripped everywhere, heavy with sweet dew.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 5.1 (CSEL 3.3:306lines 1–25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/5-1)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/5.26":{"o":"Ecce sub ingenti ramorum tegminis umbra\nFons erat: hic nullo casu turbante serenum\nPerspicuis inlimis aquis, et gramina circum\nFundebant laetos uario de flore colores.\nHunc circum innumerae gentes populique coibant,\nQuam uarii. generis sexus aetatis honoris,\nInnuptae nuptaeque simul uiduaeque nurusque,\nInfantes puerique uiri iuuenesque senesque :\nHic ubi multigenis flexos incumbere pomis\nCernebant ramos, auidis attingere dextris\nGaudebant madidos caelesti nectare fructus.\nNec prius hos poterant cupidis decerpere palmis,\nQuam lutulenta uiae uestigia foeda prioris\nDetererent corpusque pio de fonte lauarent.\nErgo diu circumspatiantes gramine molli.\nSuspiciunt alta pendentes arbore fructus:\nTunc si quae ex illis delapsa putamina ramis :\nEt dulces multo rorantes nectare fructus,\nVescuntur, ueros optantes sumere fructus:\nErgo ubi caelestem ceperunt ora saporem,\nPermutant animos et mentes perdere auaras\nIncipiunt dulcique hominem cognoscere sensu.\nInsolitum multis stomachum mouisse saporem\nVidimus et fellis commotum melle uenenum,\nReiecisse bonos turbata mente sapores,\nAut auide sumptum non dilexisse diuque\nEt male potatum tandem euomuisse saporem.","t":"Look: under the shade of the huge covering of branches\nthere was a spring: here, clear, with nothing by chance troubling it,\nwith translucent, unmuddied waters; and the grasses around\npoured out glad colors from varied flowers.\nAround it countless nations and peoples gathered,\nhow varied in kind, sex, age, rank:\nunmarried and married women, widows and young brides,\ninfants and boys, men, youths and old men:\nhere, when they saw the branches bent and leaning with fruits\nof many kinds, they rejoiced to touch with eager right hands\nthe fruits moist with heavenly nectar.\nYet they could not pluck them with desirous palms\nuntil they had wiped off the muddy, foul tracks of their former road\nand washed their body in the holy spring.\nSo, walking around a long while on the soft grass,\nthey look up at the fruits hanging from the high tree:\nthen, if any husks fell from those branches\nand sweet fruits dripping with much nectar,\nthey feed on them, longing to take the true fruits:\nso, when their mouths had taken the heavenly taste,\nthey change their dispositions and begin to lose their greedy minds\nand with a sweet sense to recognize what a human being is.\nWe have seen the unaccustomed taste stir the stomach of many,\nand the venom of gall, disturbed by the honey,\nreject good tastes with a troubled mind,\nor, having taken it eagerly, not love it for long,\nand, having drunk it badly, at last vomit up the taste.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 5.26 (CSEL 3.3:306lines 26–52–307; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/5-26)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/5.53":{"o":"Saepe quidem multi renouatis mentibus aegros\nRestituere animos et quae se posse negabant\nPertulerant fructumque sui cepere laboris.\nMulti etiam sanctos ausi contingere fontes\nDiscessere iterum subito retroque relapsi\nSordibus et caeno mixti uoluuntur eodem.\nMulti uerum bono portantes pectore totis.\nAccipiunt animis penitusque in uiscera condunt.\nErgo quique sacros possunt accedere fontes\nSeptima lux illos optatas sistit ad undas,\nTingunt in liquidis ieiunos fontibus artus:\nSic demum inluuiem mentis uitaeque prioris\nDeponunt labem purasque a morte reducunt\nInlustres animas caelique ad lumen ituras.\nHinc iter ad ramos et dulcia poma salutis,\nInde iter ad caelum per ramos arboris altae.\nHoc lignum uitae cunctis credentibus. amen.","t":"Often indeed many, with renewed minds, have restored\ntheir sick souls, and endured what they said they could not,\nand reaped the fruit of their labor.\nMany too who dared to touch the holy springs\nwent away again suddenly and, falling backward,\nwallow in the same filth and mire.\nMany, carrying the truth in a good heart, receive it\nwith their whole souls and store it deep within.\nSo all who are able to come to the sacred springs,\nthe seventh light sets them at the waters they longed for;\nthey dip their fasting limbs in the liquid springs:\nso at last they put off the filth of mind and the stain of their former life,\nand bring back from death pure,\nshining souls that will go to the light of heaven.\nHence the way to the branches and the sweet fruits of salvation,\nthence the way to heaven through the branches of the high tree.\nThis is the tree of life for all who believe. Amen.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 5.53 (CSEL 3.3:307lines 53–69–308; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/5-53)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.1":{"o":"Qui mihi ruricolas optaui carmine musas\nEt uernis roseas titulaui floribus auras\nAestiuasque graues messis messis aristas,\nSuccidi tumidas autumni uitibus uuas\nEt hiemis placidas laudaui semper oliuas\nAdque modulatas exclusi fontibus undas\nFrondentisque uago cecini de gramine siluas:\nProtinus aetherias modulabor luminis oras,\nIam mihi luciferas liceat contingere musas,\nPandere secretas fluuiali uertice nymphas\nEt laetas alio positas sub sidere siluas,\nAeternasque simul memorabo carmine flammas,\nVnde mare in tumidas inmensum fluctuet undas,\nQuae uirtus moneat solidas tremiscere terras,\nEt lux unde nouo praefulserit aurea mundo,\nQuis hominem laeto potuisset fingere limo,\nVnde genus uacuo potuisset crescere saeclo,\nEt uaria populo quae sit uiuendi cupido,\nQuae creata malo primum moriendi propago,\nVnde bonus roseis odorque pudorque coronis,\nQuid faciat laetis ut uitis aestuet uuis,\nVtque noua teneris lactescant hordea culmis,\nArbor ut in glaciem nigris pubescat oliuis,\nGerminibus uariis quis det crementa uigoris\nMollibus et matrem filiorum protegat umbris.","t":"I who wished for country Muses in my song,\nand inscribed the rosy breezes with spring flowers\nand the heavy summer ears of the harvest,\ncut the swelling grapes from the vines of autumn,\nand always praised the peaceful olives of winter,\nand drew out tuneful waters from the springs,\nand sang of the leafy woods from the wandering grass:\nnow at once I will sing of the ethereal shores of light;\nnow let me reach the light-bearing Muses,\nunfold the secret nymphs from the river's source\nand the glad woods set beneath another star,\nand at the same time tell in song of the eternal flames,\nwhence the immense sea surges into swelling waves,\nwhat power warns the solid earth to tremble,\nand whence golden light first shone on the new world,\nwho could have fashioned man from the glad clay,\nwhence the race could grow in the empty age,\nand what desire of living the people has in their variety,\nwhat lineage of dying was first created by evil,\nwhence comes the good scent and blush of rosy crowns,\nwhat makes the vine seethe with glad grapes,\nand how new barley turns milky in tender stalks,\nhow the tree ripens toward winter with black olives,\nwho gives increase of vigor to varied seeds\nand protects the mother of offspring with soft shade.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.1 (CSEL 3.3:309lines 1–25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-1)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.100":{"o":"Funditus aut pecorum sine nomine t pondere flatu,\nIncassumue Dei finiendo t fundere flatum.\nAn Deus omnipotens, cuius sub nutu reguntur\nOmnia, non ualeat post mortem reddere uitam\nAut aliquid rerum Dominus non posse uidetur?\nSi potuit tenebris claram excludere lucem\nAdque omnem uerbo potuit conponere molem,\nOmnia de nihilo potente uoce parare,\nCur non ex aliquo possit conpingere notam,\nQuae fuerat quondam, quae uixerat ante figura,\nAdsimilemque suae iubeat resurgere formam?\nCum sint cuncta Dei, reddet magis omnia tellus,\nIussa. reuocabit quidquid contexerat olim.\nSi quem forte rogis aboleuit flamma sopitum,\nAut aliquem caecis deiecerat aequor in undis,\nSi cuiusque famem satiarunt uiscera piscis,\nAut fixere ferae crudelia funera membris,\nAlitibus iacuit raptato corpore sanguis:\nVltima nec Domino negabunt funera quemquam,\nAdparere Deo uiuos de morte necesse est\nResumptisque suis homines astare figuris.\nSemina sic uersis creduntur arida terris\nEt penitus fixis putrescunt mortua sulcis,\nInde reparatis animatur culmus aristis\nEt iterum uiuis flauescunt fortia granis\nConsurguntque nouae uario cum faenore messes.","t":"or wholly, like cattle, without a name … breath,\nor in vain … to pour out God's breath by ending.\nCan God almighty, by whose nod all things\nare ruled, be unable to give back life after death,\nor does the Lord seem unable to do anything?\nIf he could shut out bright light from darkness,\nand could compose the whole mass by a word,\nmake all things from nothing by his mighty voice,\nwhy could he not, out of something, fashion the known\nshape that once was, the form that lived before,\nand bid it rise again like its own shape?\nSince all things are God's, the earth will all the more give back all,\nwhen commanded; she will call back whatever she once covered.\nIf the flame perhaps consumed someone laid asleep on the pyre,\nor the sea threw someone down into its blind waves,\nif anyone has fed the hunger of a fish's belly,\nor wild beasts have pierced his limbs with a cruel death,\nor his blood has lain for the birds, his body snatched away:\nnot even the last of deaths will refuse anyone to the Lord;\nmen must appear living before God from death\nand stand with their own shapes taken back.\nSo seeds are entrusted dry to the turned earth\nand, fixed deep in the furrows, rot dead;\nthen the stalk is quickened with ears renewed,\nand again they grow golden, strong, with living grains,\nand new harvests rise with varied interest.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.100 (CSEL 3.3:312lines 100–125–313; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-100)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.126":{"o":"Sidera cuncta cadent, iterum renata lucescent,\nEt dies in densam moritur cum lumine noctem,\nOccidit inque diem nox rebus luce retectis\nAc dies alta suis iterum resurgit in astris.\nSolque cadit supero splendorifer lumine claro,\nLux perit umbrato uenienti uespere mundo\nEt remeat toto renouatque gaudia saeclo:\nSic cremata suo uiuit de funere foenix\nExtemploque suo uolucris resurgit e busto.\nEt nudata foliis suo tempore fructicat arbor\nAdque iterum pomi curuat ex germine ramos.\nErgo ut ad uocem mundo tremente diuinam\nEt penitus motis uirtutibus aeris alti\nTunc fragor insolitus et maxima murmura caeli\nPromouente Deo, ueniente iudice mundi:\nProtinus innumeri concurrunt ire ministri,\nConuallantque Deum cum maiestate caelesti,\nAngelica late descendunt agmina turbis.\nOmnes nuntii Dei, quibus est diuina facultas\nPraecipua et forma, uirtutes spiritus omnes.\nIgneus his uigor est, rutilantia corpora, caeli\nVis diuina micat: hinc totus intonat aether,\nHinc trepidans terra penitus uniuersa remugit\nParturiens homines, quos reddere iussa debebit.","t":"All the stars will set, and will shine again reborn,\nand day dies with its light into thick night;\nnight sets into day as things are uncovered by light,\nand high day rises again among its stars.\nThe splendor-bearing sun sets from on high with clear light,\nthe light perishes as evening comes and shades the world,\nand it returns and renews joy for the whole age:\nso the phoenix, burned, lives from its own funeral,\nand at once the bird rises from its own pyre.\nAnd the tree stripped of its leaves puts out shoots in its season\nand again bends its branches from the bud of fruit.\nSo, when at the divine voice, the world trembling\nand the powers of the high air deeply shaken,\nthen an unaccustomed crash and the greatest rumblings of the sky,\nGod advancing, the judge of the world coming:\nat once countless ministers rush together to go,\nand surround God with heavenly majesty;\nangelic hosts descend far and wide in throngs,\nall the messengers of God, who have divine power\npre-eminent, and beauty, all the powers of spirit.\nTheir vigor is fiery, their bodies glowing; heaven's\ndivine force flashes: hence the whole upper air thunders,\nhence the trembling earth bellows back from its depths, entire,\nin labor with the men whom, by command, she must give back.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.126 (CSEL 3.3:313lines 126–149–314; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-126)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.150":{"o":"Mirantur comites, turbantur denique nimbi,\nAstra mirata pauent subito uirtutis ab alto\nHinc iubente Deo facile cum uoce potentis.\nContinuo ruptis per omnia regna sepulcris\nOmnis humus latis effundit hiatibus ossa\nViuentisque patens populos eructat harena.\nHaerent membra conus, nectuntur ossa medullis\nConsertique regunt spirantia corpora nerui\nEt simul infusae mouentur sanguine uenae,\nDimissaeque cauis animae redduntur apertis,\nOrgana quaeque sua repetunt surgentia cuncta.\n(Pro miranda fides) hinc omnis pullulat aetas,\nPullulat antiqua mortuorum puluere turba.\nMatres adque uiri repetita luce resurgunt,\nMagnanimi iuuenes pueri innuptaeque puellae\nDefunctique senes animis uiuentibus adstant\nInfantumque gemens resonat uagitibus orbis.\nCon uariae gentes ueniunt de sedibus imis,\nEoumque manus et quas uidet ultima tellus,\nQuae colunt medias deuexo in climate zonas\nRifeasque tenent pruinosi sideris arces:\nOmnis adest pauidus finis cuiusque colonus,\nRusticus et miles, posito diademate reges,\nPauperi permixtus aequali in agmine diues.","t":"His companions marvel, the clouds at last are troubled,\nthe stars, amazed, quake at once at the power from on high,\nGod commanding, easily, with the voice of the Mighty One.\nAt once, the tombs burst open through all the kingdoms,\nall the ground pours out bones from wide chasms,\nand the sand, opening, belches forth living peoples.\nLimbs cling together, bones are knit with marrow,\nand interlaced sinews govern the breathing bodies,\nand at the same time veins, filled again, move with blood,\nand the souls that had been sent away are given back to the opened hollows,\nand all the organs, rising, seek again each its own.\n(O faith to be marveled at!) hence every age sprouts forth,\nthe ancient crowd of the dead sprouts from the dust.\nMothers and husbands rise with light restored,\ngreat-hearted youths, boys and unmarried girls,\nand old men long dead stand by with living souls,\nand the world resounds, groaning with the wailing of infants.\nVaried nations come together from the lowest seats,\nand the bands of the East, and those whom the farthest land sees,\nthose who inhabit the middle zones in the sloping clime\nand hold the Riphaean heights under the frosty star:\nevery settler of every border is present, afraid,\nthe peasant and the soldier, kings with their crowns laid aside,\nthe rich man mingled with the poor in one even column.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.150 (CSEL 3.3:314lines 150–173–315; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-150)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.174":{"o":"Altus ubique tremor, precibus nunc ingemit orbis\nTendentesque manus populi clamore mirantur.\nIpse sedens Dominus eminenti lumine clarus\nEt praepotens cunctis micat in uirtutibus ignis\nExcelsoque throno caelesti sede coruscat\nMartyribus septus, numero candente uirorum\nBeatisque suis comitatus uatibus extat,\nClara quibus niueis effulgent tempora taeniis.\nIamque sacerdotes nitidis in uestibus adsunt\nGestantes rutilas praemia uitae coronas\nSubmissisque omnes genibusque reflexis adorant:\nSolus agios sanctusque Deus uox omnibus una est.\nHinc Dominus geminam iubebit sistere plebem:\nImperat et iustos numero discerni malorum\nIndutosque iubet deuicta morte uigorem\nSemper inexstinctam habere luminis auram,\nIre per antiqua semper florentia regna,\nDitia per nemora, semper amoena uireta,\nDegere perpetuam praeclaro in corpore uitam.\nEst locus Aeoliis Domino dilectus in oris,\nLux ubi clara nitet spiratque salubrior aura\nAeternaque dies adque inmutabile tempus\nEt secreta Deo regio ditissima campis\nBeataque nimis sereno in cardine sedes,\nSemper aer laetus semperque in luce futurus,\nLenis et adspirans uitalia flamina uentus.","t":"Deep trembling everywhere; now the world groans in prayer,\nand the peoples, stretching out their hands, marvel with shouting.\nThe Lord himself, seated, bright with surpassing light,\nand all-powerful, flashes like fire among all the powers,\nand gleams on a lofty throne in the heavenly seat,\nhedged about by martyrs, a shining number of men,\nand he stands accompanied by his blessed prophets,\nwhose temples shine with snowy fillets.\nAnd now priests are present in gleaming garments,\ncarrying glowing crowns, the rewards of life,\nand all, bowing down with bent knees, adore:\n“Holy, holy, God alone” is the one voice of all.\nThen the Lord will bid the twofold people stand:\nhe commands the just to be separated from the number of the wicked,\nand bids them, clothed with strength, death conquered,\nhave for ever the unquenched breath of light,\ngo through the ancient, ever-flowering kingdoms,\nthrough rich groves, ever pleasant green places,\nand spend everlasting life in a glorious body.\nThere is a place on the Aeolian shores, beloved by the Lord,\nwhere clear light shines and a healthier air breathes,\nand eternal day and unchangeable time,\nand a region set apart for God, very rich in fields,\nand a seat exceedingly blessed in a serene quarter,\nthe air ever glad and ever to be in light,\nand a gentle wind breathing life-giving gusts.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.174 (CSEL 3.3:315lines 174–199–316; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-174)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.200":{"o":"Omnifero fert aequa solo praediuite tellus:\nFlorea libratis conflagrat purpura pratis.\nOmnia praerutila miscent non inuida lucem,\nFlos alium laetus suo lumine uestit amictum.\nHinc rosea niueo uariantur semine rura,\nEt roseis niuea crispantur floribus arua.\nNescias illa quibus suauescant pulchrius arua\nAut quibus aetheria spiret felicius aura,\nQuia melior specie uel quis praecellat honore.\nNumquam florigenis similes nascuntur in hortis\nLilia nec nostris floruerunt talia campis,\nNec sic nota rubet mox aut rosa panditur alba,\nPurpura nec Tyrio sic est incocta rubore.\nGemma coloratis fulget speciosa lapillis,\nPrasinus inde nitet, illinc carbunculus ardet,\nSmaragdusque lapis micantia lumina fundit.\nHic et odoriferis nascuntur cinnama uirgis\nEt uiridi laetum folio confragrat amomum.\nHic iacet ingenitum radiati luminis aurum,\nEt nemora alta tenens florenti uertice caelum,\nVirentisque grauant uberrima germina ramos.\nNulla suos similes porrexit India lucos,\nNon ita densa leuat uiridis cacumina pinus,\nNec sic alta comas crispat uibrata cupressus,\nNec uernus melius floret cum tempore ramus.","t":"the very rich land bears all things equally from its all-bearing soil:\nflowery purple blazes in the level meadows.\nAll things, very bright, mingle their light without envy;\none glad flower clothes another's mantle with its own light.\nHere rosy fields are varied with snowy seed,\nand snowy fields are curled with rosy flowers.\nYou would not know with which flowers the fields are more beautifully sweet,\nor with which they breathe more happily in the heavenly air,\nwhich is better in appearance or which excels in honor.\nNever are such lilies born in flower-bearing gardens,\nnor have such flowered in our fields,\nnor does the familiar rose blush so, or the white one open,\nnor is purple so steeped in Tyrian red.\nThe gem shines, beautiful with colored stones,\nthe prase gleams on this side, the carbuncle burns on that,\nand the emerald stone pours out flashing lights.\nHere too cinnamon grows on fragrant twigs,\nand glad amomum is fragrant with green leaf.\nHere lies gold, inborn, of radiant light,\nand high groves that hold the sky with flowering top,\nand the richest buds weigh down the green branches.\nNo India has put forth groves like these,\nnor does the green pine raise its tops so thick,\nnor does the cypress so curl its high, quivering foliage,\nnor does a branch flower better in springtime.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.200 (CSEL 3.3:316lines 200–224–317; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-200)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.225":{"o":"Hic aliter celsae florent in uertice nigrae\nAeternumque uirent solae sine grandine siluae.\nNulla cadunt folia, nullus flos tempore defit:\nRobore conpacta uirent t cacumina, purpurat arbor.\nSed puto flos ille rosa est, rubor aequus in illo,\nSic speciem talem foliis adspirat odorum.\nStat cum flore nouis arbor pulcherrima pomis\nVitalemque frugem felicia robora densant.\nMella uiridatis confragrant pinguia ramis,\nLac etiam plenis manat potabile riuis.\nVitam spirat ibi quidquid pia terra uirescit,\nBeat usque simul quidquid de germine floret,\nAdque solum pulchrae redolet medicabile cretae.\nFons illic placido perfundit agmine campos,\nQuattuor inde rigant partitam flumina terram\nVer puto semper agit uestitus floribus aether.\nNon frigus uariat hiberni sideris auras,\nNec, radiata micat pressis caloribus aestas,\nCaelum luce sua serenas temperat auras :\nEt reficit fetam meliore flamine terram.\nNox ibi nulla, suas defendunt astra tenebras,\nIraeque insidiaeque absunt et dira cupido,\nExclususque metus pulsaeque a limine curae.\nHinc malus extremas relegatur exul in oras,\nBeatosque labor uetitus contingere fines.","t":"Here, otherwise, the … flourish on the top,\nand the woods alone, without hail, are green for ever.\nNo leaves fall, no flower fails in its season:\nthe tops are green, compacted with strength; the tree is purple.\nBut I think that flower is the rose, the even blush in it,\nso does it breathe such beauty of fragrances into its leaves.\nThe fairest tree stands with flower and with new fruits,\nand the happy trunks thicken with life-giving fruit.\nRich honey is fragrant on the greening branches,\nmilk too flows drinkable in full streams.\nWhatever the holy land greens forth breathes life there,\nwhatever flowers from the bud continually blesses,\nand the soil smells of beautiful, healing chalk.\nA spring there floods the fields with its calm stream;\nfrom it four rivers water the divided land.\nI think the upper air, clothed with flowers, keeps ever spring.\nCold does not vary the breezes with a winter star,\nnor does summer flash, rayed with pressing heat;\nthe sky with its own light tempers the serene breezes\nand refreshes the fruitful earth with a better breath.\nThere is no night there; the stars keep away their darkness,\nand anger and plots are absent, and dread desire,\nand fear is shut out and cares driven from the threshold.\nThence the wicked man is banished, an exile, to the farthest shores,\nand toil is forbidden to touch the blessed borders.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.225 (CSEL 3.3:317lines 225–249–318; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-225)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.250":{"o":"Hic prisca fides electa in sede quiescit.\nIustitia gaudens aeterno in foedere uiuit\nEt secura salus placidis laetatur in aruis\nSemper uictura semperque in luce futura.\nHic quicumque pius aequique bonique colonus,\nQuique Deum metuit innoxia mente tonantem\nAdque suos coluit sacra pietate parentes\nEt coluit sanctam semper sine crimine uitam,\nAut inopem quotiens opibus solatus amicis\nAdque laborantes nimium subuenit egenos,\nPauperis adiutor, solitus saluare pupillos,\nEruit et nocitos, subuenit crimine pressis,\nHospitibus carae tribuit sua pignera mensae,\nOmnia diuinis gessit sua munera iussis,\nNon aliquem nocuit, non aliena cupiuit:\nIlli exultantes diuinis laudibus omnes\nOrantesque simul referunt ad sidera uoces,\nPsallentes Domino celebrant per gaudia grates\nBeatamque uiam nuntiis comitantibus ibunt.\nPostquam haec Dominus felicia dona peregit\nEt iustos pariter aeterna in regna remisit:\nEn miseranda uenit lugens sua crimina turba:\nFit gemitus, maerent lacrimis ardentibus omnes\nTestanturque sua crebris ululatibus acta,\nFlammea pro meritis instantia tela tremiscunt.","t":"Here ancient faith rests in the chosen seat,\nJustice, rejoicing, lives in an eternal covenant,\nand secure salvation is glad in peaceful fields,\never to live and ever to be in light.\nHere whoever was a pious tiller of equity and goodness,\nand who feared God the Thunderer with innocent mind,\nand honored his parents with holy devotion,\nand lived a holy life always without crime,\nor whenever he consoled the needy with friendly wealth\nand came to the aid of the overburdened poor,\nhelper of the poor man, accustomed to save orphans,\nand rescued the injured, and came to the aid of those pressed by false charges,\ngave guests the dear pledges of his table,\ndid all his duties by divine commands,\nharmed no one, coveted nothing of another's:\nall these, exulting in divine praises\nand praying together, raise their voices to the stars,\npsalming to the Lord they give thanks with joy,\nand will go the blessed way with messengers accompanying them.\nAfter the Lord has accomplished these happy gifts\nand has sent the just together into the eternal kingdoms:\nlo, the wretched crowd comes, lamenting its crimes:\ngroaning arises, all mourn with burning tears\nand bear witness to their deeds with constant howling;\nthey tremble at the fiery darts pressing upon them for their deserts.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.250 (CSEL 3.3:318lines 250–274–319; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-250)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.26":{"o":"Omnia nosse bonum quae sint incepta ramorum,\nVt per cuncta Deum liceat agnoscere uerum,\nQui lucem maria caelum terramque parauit\nOrnauitque nouum uariato sidere mundum\nEt pecudes primum et uolucres procedere iussit\nEt dedit aequoreas conplere piscibus undas\nAdque fecundatas animalibus egit harenas.\nTalia conpositis deducam carmina musis\nSalubremque nouis exponam fontibus undam\nEt laetum placidis uenientem nubibus imbrem,\nIn animas hominum penitus ultroque fluentem,\nExcipiam plenis in nostra noualia riuis.\nNunc age securam uiuamque attingite nympham\nEt celeres uitae facilem haurite liquorem.\nSi quis uelit poenas aeternae euadere flammae\nIgnarasque die uenturique inscius aevi\nEt iustae potius adipisci praemia uitae,\nHunc unum meminisse Deum solumque precandum,\nQui totum in libra posuit sub limine mundum,\nAeternumque manens semperque futurus in aeuum,\nSaecula cuncta tenens, et ante saecula solus,\nIngenitus sine fine Deus thronumque diuinum\nSolus habens caelum semper supereminet altum\nOmnipotens solus, cui parent omnia rerum,\n[Pater filius spiritus qui sunt semper in unum]","t":"It is good to know all things, what the beginnings of things are,\nso that through all things one may recognize the true God,\nwho prepared light, seas, sky and earth,\nand adorned the new world with varied stars,\nand bade the cattle and the birds come forth first,\nand gave the sea waves to be filled with fish\nand drove living creatures over the fruitful sands.\nSuch songs will I bring forth with the Muses set in order,\nand set forth the healthful wave from new springs\nand the glad rain coming from peaceful clouds,\nflowing deep and freely into the souls of men;\nI will receive it in full streams into our fallow fields.\nCome now, touch the secure and living nymph\nand swiftly draw the easy liquor of life.\nIf anyone wishes to escape the punishments of the eternal flame,\nignorant of the day and unaware of the age to come,\nand rather to gain the rewards of a just life,\nlet him remember this one God and pray to him alone,\nwho set the whole world in the balance beneath its threshold,\nand, abiding eternally and ever to be through the ages,\nholding all ages, and alone before the ages,\nunbegotten God without end, alone holding\nthe divine throne, ever towers over high heaven,\nalone almighty, whom all things obey,","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.26 (CSEL 3.3:309lines 26–50–310; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-26)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.275":{"o":"Angeli corripiunt iam iam prohibentque precari\nEt prohibent seras paenitentiae fundere uoces,\nIamque precum uenia flamma ueniente negatur.\nO miseri, quotiens uobis diuina potestas\nInnotuit, quotiens maiestas cognita ueri ?\nAudistis sonitus, uidistis fulgura caeli,\nAssidue pluuias uentorum et grandinis iras\nExperti, quotiens noctesque diesque serenos:\nTempora fecunda dabant Dei munera uobis,\nVer abunde rosas, frugibus nec defuit aestas,\nAutumnus uaria praebebat mitia poma,\nSemper hiems laetas glacialis fregit oliuas.\nCuncta Deus tribuit, bonitas nec defuit ulla,\nNec per tanta Deum genus omne sciuit humanum.\nTerra Deum tremuit, pontus Dei nutu pependit\nEt fluuius siccis trepidus refluxit harenis,\nEt genitura Deum per omnia laeta fatetur.\nVos tamen hunc Dominum caeli terraeque negastis,\nEt iustos potius crudeli caede necastis\nPraeconesque Dei plerique saepe fugastis.\nVeritas in uobis pro crimine semper inhaesit.\nEt ideo fructum capietis sementis iniqui:\nNon scitis ecce diem, quem uos ridere soletis.\nIbitis in tenebras ignis et sulphuris altas\nArdendo saeuas passuri doloribus iras.","t":"Angels now seize them and forbid them to pray,\nand forbid them to pour out late cries of repentance,\nand now pardon for prayers is denied as the flame comes on.\n“O wretched ones, how often did divine power\nmake itself known to you, how often was the majesty of the truth known?\nYou heard the sounds, you saw the lightnings of heaven,\nyou constantly experienced rains, the angers of winds and hail,\nso often nights and serene days:\nthe fruitful seasons gave you the gifts of God,\nspring gave roses in abundance, nor did summer lack crops,\nautumn offered varied mellow fruits,\nicy winter always broke the glad olives.\nGod gave all things, nor was any goodness lacking,\nyet through all these things the whole human race did not know God.\nThe earth trembled at God, the sea hung at God's nod,\nand the river, trembling, flowed back over dry sands,\nand creation, glad, confesses God in all things.\nYet you denied this Lord of heaven and earth,\nand killed the just instead with cruel slaughter,\nand many of you often put the heralds of God to flight.\nThe truth always clung to you as if it were a crime.\nAnd therefore you will reap the fruit of an unjust sowing:\nyou do not know: behold, the day you are accustomed to laugh at.\nYou will go into the deep darkness of fire and sulphur,\nto suffer, burning, cruel wrath with pains.”","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.275 (CSEL 3.3:319lines 275–299–320; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-275)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.300":{"o":"Hos aeternae iubet Dominus discedere poenae,\nIre sub ardores semper sine fine gehennae,\nVrgeri molem per stagna torrentia flammae.\nIn flammas conuerti iubet elementa minantis\nAdque omnem caeli descendere nubibus ignem.\nTunc auidus rapidos excludit tartarus ignis,\nAdque procellosis fluctuabunt aequora flammis,\nTotaque uiuentis confundet terra fauillis,\nFlammeos et sulcos aer uibrabit iratus,\nAdque omnibus facibus torrens armabitur orbis,\nImpetu tartareo prendent incendia mundum.\nIlli praecipitem pulsi tolluntur in aestum,\nHinc fugiunt, illinc cursu referuntur acuto.\nObuia fit saeua flammae fugientibus ira,\nAgnoscuntque suam iam iam de crimine poenam.\nIamque qua a nullo tellus possessa colono\nEt maris extremis pressa sub fine profundo,\nQua sol emenso radio definit Olympum\nOrtaque transacto conduntur sidera mundo :\nGliscit aer densis abstrusa luce tenebris,\nVltima secretis stagna flammantia riuis.\nEst natura loci signatis ignea poenis,\nEt palus inferni candens ardoribus ima\nIntonat horrificis, fretum poenale, caminus\nAestuat et rapido turbatur uertice flammans,\nIn tormenta ruens fluctuanti gurgite flumen\nTorrida se cuncta caeno miscetur harena.","t":"These the Lord commands to depart to eternal punishment,\nto go under the burnings of Gehenna ever without end,\nto be pressed down, a mass, through the torrent pools of flame.\nHe commands the threatening elements to be turned into flames,\nand all the fire of heaven to descend from the clouds.\nThen greedy Tartarus shuts out its swift fires,\nand the seas will surge with stormy flames,\nand the whole earth will confound the living with ashes,\nand the angry air will brandish fiery furrows,\nand the burning world will be armed with every torch;\nwith a Tartarean onrush the fires will seize the world.\nThey, driven headlong, are lifted into the surge;\nthey flee this way, and are carried back that way in sharp course.\nThe fierce wrath of the flame meets them as they flee,\nand now they recognize their punishment for their crime.\nAnd now, where the earth is possessed by no settler,\nand pressed beneath the farthest bounds of the deep sea,\nwhere the sun, its ray having run its course, ends Olympus,\nand the risen stars are hidden when the world has passed,\nthe air grows thick with darkness, its light hidden,\nthe last pools flaming with secret streams.\nThe nature of the place is fiery, marked out for punishments,\nand the swamp of the underworld, glowing in its depths with burnings,\nthunders horribly, a strait of punishment; the furnace\nseethes, and, flaming, is churned with a rapid whirl,\na river rushing into torments with surging flood;\nthe scorched sand, all of it, is mixed with the mire.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.300 (CSEL 3.3:320lines 300–326–322; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-300)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.327":{"o":"Huc captiua gemens mittetur turba malorum\nArsurumque (nefas) scelerati corporis agmen.\nMagnus plangor ibi fletu sociante clamorem,\nEt stridor rapidus, ululatus inde dolentum\nExsurget de flamma procul altusque sonoras\nIgnis et ardentis gemitus consurget in auras.\nTunc humana mali pendet commissa propago,\nIncipientque preces ad caelum tendere seras.\nAdque Deum nunc nosse uolent, quem nosse nolebant.\nIllic quisque suae fatebitur effera uitae\nNocentesque manus et saeuas crimine mentes\nAdque infanda sui testabitur effera uitae.\nIam primum quicumque Deum male senserat ante\nEt uaga mentito coluisset numine saxa\nAdque cruentatas signis sacrauerat aras\nEt picturatas timuit sine uoce figuras\nAc falsi tenuis adorauit numinis umbras,\nEt quemcumque malus seduxit protinus error,\nSi quis adulter erat, natos quicumque necarat,\nSi quocunque malo quis conscia mente uiuebat\nAut rapto grassatus erat aut fraude clientis,\nSi quis humano suas maculabat sanguine palmas\nAdque latebrosa miscebat morte uenena,\nTunc si quis uacuo celabat pectore furta\nAut alieni mali lucro gaudebat iniquo,\nAdmisit quicumque nefas quodcumque malorum.","t":"Hither the captive, groaning crowd of the wicked will be sent,\nand (unhallowed!) the column of the criminal body, to burn.\nGreat lamentation there, weeping joined with clamor,\nand quick gnashing; the howling of those in pain\nwill rise from the flame afar, and the fire, deep and resounding,\nand the groaning of the burning will rise into the air.\nThen the human race pays for the evil it committed,\nand they will begin to stretch late prayers to heaven,\nand will now wish to know God, whom they would not know.\nThere each will confess the savage things of his life,\nthe guilty hands and minds savage in crime,\nand will testify to the unspeakable things of his savage life.\nFirst whoever had thought ill of God before\nand worshipped wandering stones with a false deity\nand had consecrated bloody altars to images\nand feared painted figures without voice\nand adored the thin shades of a false deity,\nand whomever evil error at once led astray;\nif anyone was an adulterer, whoever had killed his children,\nif anyone lived with a conscience guilty of any evil,\nor had marauded by robbery or by defrauding a client,\nif anyone stained his palms with human blood\nand mixed poisons with lurking death,\nthen if anyone hid thefts in an empty breast,\nor rejoiced in the unjust gain of another's misfortune,\nwhoever committed any wickedness of the wicked.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.327 (CSEL 3.3:322lines 327–352–323; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-327)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.353":{"o":"Altus ardor eos igni torquebit amaro,\nSuppliciumque dabunt uiuente funere cuncti,\nSic hominum totam maerentes f seruare turbam.\nHaec adeo sancti quotiens cecinere prophetae,\nSpiritu saepe Dei moniti dixere futura?\n[Nemo suas (miserum) nemo eheu praebuit aures.]\nSic Deus omnipotens uoluit sua praemia nosci\nAdque minas positae *** per talia legis,\nMittendo plures caelestia uerba clamantes.\nDenique iussu Dei conpegit ossa prophetes\nEt stupuit mota subito non sponte sepulcra,\nCineribus creta t iacuisse corpora passis,\nSurgere tunc uiuos anima ueniente miratus\nEt cum uoce sua ad caelum tendere palmas.\n[Gratanturque Deo et uictori talia Christo.]\nIlli quidem tumulos repetiere silentes\nSeruandique Dei diei cessere futuro:\nPaulisper iussit retineri cubilibus imis,\nDonec ille dies conpleto tempore magnus\nAdueniat. cuncti Dominum cognoscite ueram,\nQui solus animam faciat contendere lucem\nEandemque potest in tartara trudere poenae\nEt cui cuncta patet uitae mortisque potestas.\nPosse Deo, nam uelle satis est, factumque dicendo\nIlle meus solus metuendus sensibus imis.","t":"Deep burning will torture them with bitter fire,\nand all will pay the penalty in a living death,\nthus … the whole crowd of men, mourning.\nHave not the holy prophets so often sung these things,\noften warned by the Spirit of God, and foretold what was to come?\nThus God almighty willed his rewards to be known\nand the threats of the law laid down *** by such things,\nsending many to cry out heavenly words.\nThen, at God's command, the prophet put bones together,\nand was astonished at the tombs suddenly moved, not of themselves,\nthat bodies … had lain in scattered ashes;\nhe marveled that then they rose living as the soul came,\nand with their voice stretched their palms toward heaven.\nThey indeed went back to their silent tombs\nand yielded to the future day of God, to be kept for it:\nhe bade them be held for a little while in their deepest beds,\nuntil that great day, its time completed,\nshould come. All of you, know the true Lord,\nwho alone can make the soul strive toward the light,\nand can likewise thrust it into the Tartarus of punishment,\nand to whom all power of life and death lies open.\nFor God, to will is enough to be able, and it is done by speaking:\nhe alone is to be feared by me in my inmost senses.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.353 (CSEL 3.3:323lines 353–377–324; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-353)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.378":{"o":"Et quoniam leto cursus concluditur omnis,\nQuicumque est hodie, secum sua uita feretur.\nEt ideo dum uita manet, dum carpere lucem,\nDum paeniteri licet, prius quam terminus aeui\nOccupet incautos et nescia lumina soluat\nVltimus ille dies mortis qui lege tenetur :\nQuod primum superest, carae uigilate saluti\nEt faciles certique bonum in deflectite cursum.\nPost errata suis et pressa piacula sacris\nPostque uagae nimium quos uexare procellae\nRectas adite uias et flamina laeta tenete.\nHinc laetis prius animis repellite crimen,\nEt concreta diu proluatur pectore culpa,\nTunc conmissa mali mites abolete nefanda\nAeternisque Deum precibus placate tremendum,\nPessima cuncta. bonis cedant, mortalia uiuis.\nConseruate nouam iam iam sine crimine uitam\nEt seruate pias ueroque in nomine mentes.\nAc ueniam primis supplices rogate delictis.\nIam iam pura piis maturescant corda colonis,\nInnocuasque manus precibus adtollite iustis\nLaudibus et faciles diuinis reddite uoces.\nIncipiantque bonis uerisque adsuescere mentes,\nDiuinaeque magis celebrentur munera legis,\nEt memorate bona simulque inuadite facta.\nSordida uilescant olim conmissa malorum,\nEt meliora piis flagrabunt omnia uobis,\nHorrendisque simul liberatur uita periclis\nAdque aeterna suis ueniet ad praemia uotis.","t":"And since every course is concluded by death,\nwhoever lives today will carry his life with him.\nAnd therefore, while life remains, while you may enjoy the light,\nwhile you may repent, before the end of time\nseizes you unawares, and that last day of death,\nwhich is held by law, closes your unknowing eyes:\nwhat remains first, watch over your dear salvation,\nand, ready and sure, turn your course toward the good.\nAfter errors, and after sins checked by holy rites,\nand after the storms that have harried you, wandering, too long,\ntake the right ways and hold to the glad breezes.\nHence with glad souls first drive away crime,\nand let the long-hardened guilt be washed from your breast,\nthen, gentle, abolish the unspeakable evils you have committed,\nand appease the dreadful God with unceasing prayers.\nLet all the worst things yield to the good, mortal things to the living.\nKeep now the new life without crime,\nand keep your minds pious and in the true name.\nAnd as suppliants ask pardon for your former offenses.\nNow let pure hearts ripen in pious tillers,\nand lift innocent hands in just prayers,\nand render voices ready for divine praises.\nAnd let your minds begin to grow used to things good and true,\nand let the gifts of the divine law be celebrated the more,\nand remember good things and at once take hold of good deeds.\nLet the sordid evils once committed grow worthless,\nand all better things will blaze for you, the pious,\nand at once life is freed from dreadful perils\nand will come, by its prayers, to the eternal rewards.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.378 (CSEL 3.3:324lines 378–406–325; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-378)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.51":{"o":"Qui sibi conplacitum hominem formauit in aeuum,\nPastorem pecudum, dominum dedit esse ferarum\nIusque dedit uolucrum pontumque solum dominandum,\nQui sermone tenus potuit extendere caelum\nEt solidam uerbo iussit suspendere terram\nAc dicto citius separauit aequoris undam,\nHanc manibus caram dilexit fingere formam\nDecoramque suam uoluit inesse figuram,\nSpiritu uiuificam adflauit uultibus auram.\nImmemor ille Dei, temere conmittere tanta,\nNec ultra monitum quicquam contingeret: unum,\nVnde malum sciret et unde dinosceret aequum\nProtinus, inlicitum uetuit contingere pomum.\nQuanta Deus homini permisit munera mundi\nEt praedulce sui signauit pignus amoris,\nVtilia et cara tribuit mandata salutis,\nSub dicione dedit terras animamque uiuentem,\nPinnatumque genus pecudes genus omne ferarum\nEt genus aequoreum animalia cuncta natantum.\nSed quoniam primo transgressus crimine legem\nIam iam primus homo Domini mandata mutabat,\nConiuge cuncta mala suadente morte peribat.\nNam peccati malum conmisit femina primum\nProdidit adque suum decepit lege maritum.","t":"who formed man, pleasing to himself, for the ages,\ngave him to be shepherd of the cattle and lord of the wild beasts,\nand gave him rule over the birds, and the sea and the land to govern;\nwho by speech alone could stretch out the sky,\nand by a word bade the solid earth hang,\nand quicker than said separated the sea's wave;\nthis form, dear to him, he loved to fashion with his hands,\nand willed his own comely likeness to be in it;\nby his Spirit he breathed a life-giving breath into his face.\nHe, unmindful of God, rashly committed so great a thing,\nthough warned to touch nothing beyond: one thing,\nwhence he would know evil and whence discern the right,\nthe forbidden fruit, God at once forbade him to touch.\nHow great were the gifts of the world God granted to man,\nand marked them as a most sweet pledge of his love,\ngave him useful and dear commands for his salvation,\ngave the lands under his dominion and every living soul,\nthe winged race, the cattle, every kind of wild beast,\nand the race of the sea, all creatures that swim.\nBut because, having first transgressed the law by a crime,\nthe first man now was altering the Lord's commands,\nhis wife urging all evils, he was perishing in death.\nFor the woman first committed the evil of sin\nand betrayed her husband and deceived him from the law.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.51 (CSEL 3.3:310lines 51–74–311; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-51)."},"ps-cyprian-carmina/6.75":{"o":"Eua persuasa male patefecit limina leto\nEt sibi cum genere creauit funera toto.\nHinc (nefas infaustum) mors emanauit in aeuum.\nInde magis facinus facile percrebruit altum,\nAgricolaeque labor agitauit saeuius annum.\nCallidus hoc zelo serpens iniecit iniquo.\nInde magis populi multa conmissa malorum\nEt nefanda malis pepererunt semina factis.\nIdcircoque Deus solus, cui summa potestas,\nEt super alta tenens summa fastigia caeli,\nAltus inaccessam habitans in saecula lucem\nPraeteritique memor et praescius ante futuri,\nProgeniem meriti decretum seruat in aeuum:\nEt cunctas animas quae corpora tarde gubernant\nEt ratione mouent hominem uagante per artus,\nVt primum posito membrorum pondere cedunt\nTerrenisque leues resolutae nexibus ibunt\nAc proprias repetent diuersis partibus oras,\nIllicet occultis alias includi tenebris,\nAst alias laetis reuocari protinus auris,\nSeruari penitus decreta ad praemia legis,\nDonec t iterum ortis resurgant corpora membris :\nNunc homines primae pensare faenora uitae\nIudicesque Dei memores astare priorum,\nExpectare suam suo quemque ex crimine poenam.","t":"Eve, wickedly persuaded, opened the doors to death\nand created funerals for herself together with her whole race.\nHence (unhallowed misfortune!) death flowed out through the ages.\nThence crime spread more easily and deeply,\nand the farmer's labor drove the year more harshly.\nThe cunning serpent cast this in with wicked envy.\nThence all the more did the peoples commit many evils,\nand abominable seeds brought forth evil deeds.\nAnd therefore God alone, who has the highest power,\nand holds the highest summits above the lofty sky,\ndwelling on high in inaccessible light through the ages,\nmindful of the past and knowing the future beforehand,\nkeeps for ever the decree of desert for the race:\nall souls that slowly govern bodies\nand move the human being by reason wandering through the limbs,\nas soon as they lay down the weight of the limbs and depart,\nand go light, released from earthly bonds,\nand seek again their own shores in different parts,\nforthwith some are shut in hidden darkness,\nbut others are at once called back to glad breezes,\nkept wholly for the rewards decreed by the law,\nuntil … bodies rise again with their limbs restored:\nthen men will weigh the interest of their first life,\nand stand before God their judge, mindful of the past,\neach to await his own punishment for his own crime.","f":"Ps.-Cyprian, <i>Carm.</i> 6.75 (CSEL 3.3:311lines 75–99–312; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-cyprian-carmina/6-75)."}}