{"ps-tertullian-sodoma/1":{"o":"Iam deus omnipotens primaeui tempora saecli\nuindice diluuio cunctis aboleuerat undis.\nquas caelum sparsit. terrae. maris expuit aequor:\nhactenus haud liquido poenas decernere pactus\nexcidio, quotiens. hiemem cum induceret 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.\nexcidio iam non imbres sortita. sed ignes.\nsic Sodomum meruit tellus ardentibus uri\nroribus et finis portendere signa futuri.\neffera luxuries illic. inimica pudoris.\ninstar legis erat. fugeret quam praescius hospes,\nante uel ad Scythicas uel apud Busiridis aras\nexoptans per sacra necem caestusque cruore\nfundere Bebrycum cum et Lybicas satiare palaestras\nAntaei. Circaea nouas per pocula formas\nsumere. quam laesum Sodomis amittere sexum.\nPulsabat caelum inuidia: conubia mixta\nincestu parili. generis natura rebellis\nm sese, laesumque uiri cum corpore nomen.\ntempore sed certo deus omnia prospeculatur:","t":"Already God almighty had blotted out the times of the first age by an avenging flood, with all the waters which the sky scattered, the earth, and the sea's surface spewed out; and, having agreed from then on not to decree punishments by destruction through water, whenever the air brought on a storm, he had commanded the many-coloured bow, marking the clouds with a purple and green border, in the name of Iris, to bridle the rains; it is the clasp proper to the rain-clouds. But the impiety of men fell back again together with the second race, and a new age of evil sprouted once more, allotted for its destruction no longer rains but fires. So the land of Sodom deserved to be burned by blazing dews and to show forth the signs of the end to come. There savage luxury, the enemy of modesty, stood in place of law. A foreknowing guest would flee it, preferring rather, at the Scythian altars or at those of Busiris, to wish for death through sacrifice, and to shed his blood under the gloves of the Bebrycian, and to sate the Libyan wrestling-grounds of Antaeus, and to take on new forms through Circe's cups, than to lose his violated sex at Sodom. Heaven was struck with indignation: couplings mixed with like incest; the nature of the kind rebellious against itself, and the name of man violated together with his body. But God, at the fixed time, foresees all things:","f":"Ps.-Tertullian, <i>Sodom.</i> 1 (CSEL 23:213lines 1–24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-tertullian-sodoma/1)."},"ps-tertullian-sodoma/123":{"o":"quin etiam siquis mutilauerit aduena formam,\nprotinus ex sese suggestu uulnera complet.\ndicitur et uiuens. alio iam corpore. sexus\nmunificos solito dispungere sanguine menses.\nNusquam sunt Sodomi. nusquam illic impia lucent\nmoenia. cum dominis domus omnis inhospita nusquam.\ntota rogus regio est: hinc atro horrore fauillae\nhincque situ cano cineres incendia signant.\nnullus arat frustra piceas fuligine glebas.\noccidit illa prior feritas. quam prospiciens Loth\ndiscretus patruo dites delegerat agros].\nsemiperempta etiam si qua illic iugera laetas\nautumni conantur opes. facile optima sese\npromittunt oculis pira. persica et omnia mela,\ndonec carpantur: nam protinus indice tacta\nsoluitur in cinerem uacui fallacia pomi.\nsic igitur caelo pariter terraque sepultis\nnec mare uiuit ibi: mors est maris illa quieti.\nquod nullos animat per anhela uolumina fluctus.\nquodque etiam patrio numquam suspirat ab austro.\nquodque caret proferre aliquam de gurgite gentem\nsquamigeram leuique cute uel cortice saeptam\nuel crispam conchae et duplici conpagine clausam.\nsolum illic propria mentitur fruge bitumen.","t":"Moreover, if any stranger mutilates the figure, at once, from itself, by an inward supply, it fills up the wounds. It is also said that, living still in another body, she discharges, with the usual blood, the monthly flows of her sex. Nowhere is Sodom; nowhere do impious walls shine there; nowhere is every inhospitable house with its masters. The whole region is a pyre: here with the black horror of embers, there with grey mould, the ashes mark the burnings. No one ploughs in vain the clods pitch-black with soot. That former savagery has perished, which Lot, foreseeing, when parted from his uncle, had chosen as rich fields. Even if any half-destroyed acres there attempt the glad riches of autumn, the finest fruits readily promise themselves to the eyes, pears, peaches and all apples, until they are plucked: for at once, touched by the finger, the deceit of the empty fruit dissolves into ash. Thus, then, with sky and earth buried alike, neither does the sea live there: that is the death of the sea, its stillness, that it moves no waves in panting rolls, and never sighs even before its native south wind, and that it cannot bring forth from its depths any scaly race, or one enclosed in smooth skin or bark, or the rough shell shut in a double fastening. Only bitumen there feigns a crop of its own:","f":"Ps.-Tertullian, <i>Sodom.</i> 123 (CSEL 23:218lines 123–146; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-tertullian-sodoma/123)."},"ps-tertullian-sodoma/147":{"o":"exusti fuligo maris, quod uiuidus ardor\nsubter stagna coquens de sulpuris et salis aestu\ntemperat inque picem dat terrae adhaerere marinam.\ninuehitur proprio cum tempore pingue crematae\nuirus aquae spumisque cutis super aequora nigra\ntexitur. adpellunt. quis est ea captio mercis;\nadclinant laterum leues libramine lembos,\nut semel inpositam doceant conscendere uenam;\nnam se sponte leuans adnabit inertis ad ora\nnauigii pressumque dabit prae munere largo.\nni plaga contigerit. qua mensis femina uestit.\nEcce aliud monstrum pelagi de clade notatur:\ncuncta illic inuita natant; natura recessit\nmergendis data corporibus. si denique testae\nluciferam narem insistes. qua spiritus igni est,\nuelificabit apex flammae; si flamma perempta est,\nibit subter aquas adstructio naufraga lucis.\nHae Sodomum et Gomorum signatae in saecula poenae\ng-entibus iniustis. quis corda ecdura timorem\n-deseruere dei. de caelo iura uereri.\ninque unum rerum dominum curare docebunt.","t":"the soot of a burned sea, which a living heat, cooking beneath the pools from the seething of sulphur and salt, tempers, and causes the sea-pitch to cling to the earth. At its proper time the greasy ooze of the burned water is carried in, and a skin is woven with foam over the black surface. They put in to shore: such is the way to catch the merchandise; they lean their light boats with a balancing of the sides, so as to teach the vein, once laid on, to climb aboard; for, lifting itself of its own accord, it will swim to the edges of the idle boat and give itself in a pressed mass as a large gift, unless the stain should touch it with which a woman clothes her months. See, another marvel of the sea is recorded from the disaster: everything there floats against its will; nature has withdrawn the power given to bodies to sink. Lastly, if you set the light-bearing nozzle of a lamp, where the wick has its fire, the tip of the flame will sail; if the flame is put out, the shipwrecked structure of the light will go under the waters. These punishments of Sodom and Gomorrah, marked for the ages, will teach unjust nations, whose hardened hearts have abandoned the fear of God, to revere the laws of heaven and to have care for the one Lord of all things.","f":"Ps.-Tertullian, <i>Sodom.</i> 147 (CSEL 23:219lines 147–167; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-tertullian-sodoma/147)."},"ps-tertullian-sodoma/25":{"o":"iudicat iniustos, patiens ubi criminis aetas\ncessandi spatium. uis nulla. coegerat ira.\niamque dies ultrix aderat: duo de grege missi\nangelica forma iuuenes, qui spiritus ambo\ndiua ministeria domini mandata ferebant:\nsuccedunt Sodomis. illic de stirpe piorum\ntransuena Loth aderat. sapiens iustique colonus;\nunus erat meminisse deum. solet utilis arbor\nin siluis latitare ferens uelut hospita fructus.\nis tunc pro porta residens — uix moenia adibant\ncaelicolae — quamquam diuinos nescius ultro\naduocat, adpellat, patrio ueneratur honore\nhospitioque uocat longe stabulare parantes.\nenisus longis precibus: pia pignora mensa\nofficiisque probis studio dispungit amicos.\nNox requiem dederat. lux soluerat altera noctem\net Sodoma in foribus strepitat cum lege pudenda.\nLoth contra supplex: „Ne uos nunc pacta libido\nincendat. iuuenes. ipsam foedare iuuentam\nluxu. quo genitura uocant, quo semina, frustra:\nquo nullae nuptant animae. non lustra colentes.\nnon stabulis reduces, non undis subter hiantes.\nnec quae pinnarum modulis prope nubila pendent.\nnec quae per terram protracto corpore manant.","t":"he judges the unjust, when the patient age of the crime has [given] a space for ceasing; no force had compelled his anger. And now the avenging day was at hand. Two young men sent from the flock, in angelic form, both spirits, bearing the divine commands of the Lord's ministry, come up to Sodom. There, of the stock of the pious, was Lot, a stranger, wise and a just dweller; he alone remembered God. A useful tree often lies hidden in the woods, bearing fruit as if a guest. He then, sitting before the gate (the heavenly ones were scarcely approaching the walls), though unaware that they were divine, of his own accord calls them, addresses them, honours them with ancestral respect, and invites to his hospitality those who were preparing to lodge far off, prevailing with long entreaties; with a pious table and upright services he eagerly fulfils the pledges of friendship. Night had given rest; another dawn had dissolved the night, and Sodom clamours at the doors with its shameful law. Lot, a suppliant, against them: “Let not a lust agreed upon now inflame you, young men, to defile youth itself with luxury in which, in vain, they call for begetting, for seed; with which no living souls marry, neither those that dwell in the dens, nor those that come back to the stalls, nor those that gape beneath the waves, nor those that hang near the clouds on the measure of their wings, nor those that creep over the earth with stretched-out body.","f":"Ps.-Tertullian, <i>Sodom.</i> 25 (CSEL 23:213lines 25–48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-tertullian-sodoma/25)."},"ps-tertullian-sodoma/49":{"o":"omne genus luxu genus est; sed femina coniunx\nomnibus, et numquam cuiquam nisi femina mater.\nnunc, si fas iuuenale habet uastare pudorem,\nsunt intus natae biiuges mihi, nubilis aetas;\nuirginitas in flore tumet: iam dedita messi\ndigna cupido uiris: tulerit quam uestra uoluptas.\ndedo pater proque hospitibus pensabo dolorem.i\nVulgus ad haec demens: , Quisnam tu, quantus et unde,\nqui nobis domineris. ait. legesque recondas?\ntransuena, non rector, Sodomorum iugera liras.\nnunc igitur tute ipse lues. quod nostra cupido est.\npro natis proque hospitibus: satis unus in omnes.-\ndicta pt facta simul. uulgi mora nulla furentis.\nturbidus hiberno dum uoluitur impete torrens,\nriuorum innumeros uno pede deuehit amnes:\nsi qua illic arbor rapidis offenditur undis,\nhaut mansura diu. quantum radice licebit\ncrinitas durare moras. ubi subter adesam\nperdit humum, circumfosso iam caudice pendens\nhuc illuc certam differt incerta ruinam:\nhaut aliter Loth in media uertigine uulgi\nnutabat uinci prope iam: sed diua potestas\nsubuenit. angelici iuuenes de limine raptum\nrestituunt tectis. demens et uulgus ibidem\npoenarum auspiciis interdum lumine multant.","t":"Every kind is a kind by its own increase; but a female is wife to all, and to none is any but a female mother. Now, if young men's right is to lay waste modesty, I have within two daughters, of marriageable age; their virginity swells in its flower; already given over to the harvest, a desire worthy of husbands: let your pleasure take it. I, their father, hand them over, and for my guests I will weigh out the grief.” The mad crowd says to this: “Who are you, how great, and from where, to lord it over us and lay down laws? A stranger, not a ruler, you plough the acres of Sodom. Now, therefore, you yourself will pay what our desire is, for your daughters and for your guests: one is enough for all.” Words and deeds at once; no delay in the raging crowd. As a turbid torrent, rolling with wintry force, carries along countless streams with a single course, if any tree there is struck by the rapid waves, not to last long, holding on with its rooted tresses as long as it can, when it loses the soil eaten away beneath, hanging now with its trunk dug round, uncertain, it defers its certain fall this way and that: not otherwise was Lot tottering in the middle of the crowd's whirlpool, almost overcome; but the divine power came to help. The angelic young men snatched him from the threshold and restored him to the house; and the mad crowd, there and then, they punish with the loss of sight, as a foretaste of the punishments.","f":"Ps.-Tertullian, <i>Sodom.</i> 49 (CSEL 23:215lines 49–73; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-tertullian-sodoma/49)."},"ps-tertullian-sodoma/74":{"o":"Tum decreta dei reserant. dignam fore poenam\nde caelo Sodomis: ipsum meruisse salutem\niustitiae titulo. \"Quin ergo accingeris istinc\nfestinare fugam pariterque educere, si quid\ngentis habes. nos exitium iam inducimus urbi.\"\nLoth generos citus adloquitur. sed dura hominum mens\ncredere despexit monitum risitque timorem.\ntempore mox quo lux tenebras accendere temptat\net bicolor caeli facies de nocte dieque est.\ninstabant iuuenes Chaldaeam educere gentem\nex Sodomis iustamque domum donare saluti.\n\"Heia age. Loth. exsurge tuamque adsume iugalem\net natas duplices atque hinc exterminis ito.\npraeueniens Sodomum poenas.\" manibus quoque amicis\nproducunt trepidos atque haec tibi cetera mandant :\n\"Seru. Loth. animam. ne uisum in terga retrorsum\nuertere forte uelis. coeptum uel sistere gressum:\nin montem propera!\" timuit Loth ardua tardo\nereptare gradu. caelestes ne prius irae\nopprimerent; alios igitur deposcere portus\nadgreditur. paruam quam contra adspexerat urbem.\n\"Huc. inquit. fuga sit: certe uix moenibus extat,\nnec longe nec magna mihi est.\" fauere petenti.\nurbis et ipsius pariter cessere salutem.\nSegor inde loco nomen uox barbara nouit.","t":"Then they disclose the decrees of God: that a punishment from heaven will be fitting for Sodom; that he himself has deserved salvation by title of righteousness. “Why, then, do you not gird yourself to hasten flight from here, and lead out as well whatever family you have? We are now bringing destruction on the city.” Lot quickly speaks to his sons-in-law; but the hard mind of men scorned to believe the warning and laughed at the fear. Soon, at the time when light tries to kindle the darkness and the face of the sky is two-coloured from night and day, the young men pressed to lead the Chaldean family out of Sodom and to grant salvation to the just house. “Come now, Lot, rise up and take your wife and your two daughters and go out from here, exiled, forestalling the punishments of Sodom.” With friendly hands too they lead them out, trembling, and give you these further commands: “Save your soul, Lot; do not by chance wish to turn your gaze backward, or to stop the step you have begun: hasten to the mountain!” Lot feared to climb the heights with slow step, lest the heavenly wrath should overtake him first; so he proceeds to ask for another harbour, a small city which he had seen opposite. “Here”, he says, “let my flight be: surely it scarcely stands with walls, and it is neither far nor great for me.” They favoured his request and granted salvation to the city itself as well. Hence the barbarian tongue knew the name of the place as Zoar.","f":"Ps.-Tertullian, <i>Sodom.</i> 74 (CSEL 23:216lines 74–98; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-tertullian-sodoma/74)."},"ps-tertullian-sodoma/99":{"o":"tunc Loth ingreditur Segor: simul exoritur sol.\nultimus ille quidem. Sodomumque incendia feruens\ninfert: nam totos radios armauerat igni:\naemula subseritur caligo. includere lucem\ncoeptans atque globos confuso intexere- caelo.\nfumantes coeunt nubes. nouus inruit imber.\nsulpura cum flammis flagrat chaos. aestuat aether.\nexustus crepitat liquidis ardoribus aer.\nHinc habet in falso de uero fabula famam\nSolis progeniem currus optasse paternos\nnec ualuisse leuem puerum frenare superbos\nignis equos. arsisse orbem. tunc fulmine raptum\naurigam inlicitum. planctum mutasse sorores.\nuiderit Eridanus. si qua illic populus albet..\naut si quis plumat senio modulatior ales.\nhic aliter uersae maerent miracula formae:\nnamque comes coniunx. heu me, male tum quoque legis\nfemina non patiens diuinae, ad murmura caeli\naudaces oculos nequiquam sola retorsit,\nnon habitura loqui. quod uiderit. et simul illic\nin fragilem mutata salem stetit ipsa sepulchrum.\nipsa et imago sibi. formam sine corpore seruans.\ndurat enim adhuc nuda statione sub aethra,\nnec pluuiis dilapsa situ nec diruta uentis.","t":"Then Lot enters Zoar; at the same time the sun rises, the last one indeed, and burning brings on the fires of Sodom; for it had armed all its rays with fire. A rival darkness creeps in, trying to shut in the light and weave masses into the confused sky. Smoking clouds come together; a new rain rushes down; sulphur with flames, chaos blazes; the heaven seethes; the scorched air crackles with liquid burnings. From this the fable has its fame, false from true: that the offspring of the Sun desired his father's chariot, and the light boy could not bridle the proud horses of fire; that the world burned; that then the unlawful charioteer was snatched away by a thunderbolt; that his sisters changed their mourning. Let the Eridanus see to it, if any poplar grows white there, or if any bird, more tuneful in its old age, puts on feathers. Here, otherwise, the marvels of a changed form mourn. For the wife, his companion, alas, a woman not patient even then of the divine law, alone turned back her bold eyes in vain at the murmurs of the sky, never to tell what she saw; and at once, changed there into brittle salt, she stood as her own tomb, and her own image, keeping a form without a body. For she endures still in her bare station under the sky, neither dissolved by rains through decay nor overthrown by winds.","f":"Ps.-Tertullian, <i>Sodom.</i> 99 (CSEL 23:217lines 99–122; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/ps-tertullian-sodoma/99)."}}