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One more slightly belated birthday post for Roma. I found some delightful quotations about the City in my Breviarium Urbis Romae Antiquae.
Miratur facilisque oculos fert omnia circum
Aeneas, capiturque locis et singula laetus
exquiritque auditque virum monimenta priorum.
The Aeneid 8.310-312. And think, how much truer a thing today, than when Aeneas arrived on the scene! This next quotation is from a pagan poet, much opposed to the Catholic Faith, but how true his words when applied to the spiritual realm:
O quantum et quotiens possum numerare beatos
nasci felici qui meruere solo!
From Claudius Rutilius Namatianus’ De Reditu Suo.
St. Louis-Marie de Montfort,
Pope St. Pius X,
St. Joseph,
St. Ambrose of Milan,
St. Thomas Aquinas,
St. Francis (and St. Clare),
St. Catherine of Siena,
St. Alphonsus Ligouri,
St. John Chrysostom,
But Iosephe! Dante chose Virgil to be his guide through the Inferno! Virgil wrote Eclogue 4! I don’t think Virgil was greatly opposed to Christianity — necessarily. Just a wee quibble . . .
Amica societatis, the poet whom Iosephus calls “greatly opposed to Christianity” is not Vergil, but the second poet in the post. Vergil lived before Our Lord’s Birth, too.
Oh . . . my bad, I mean: mea culpa. You were calling Namatianus the one who was greatly opposed to Christianity! I read too hastily. Ah — that’s what happens when one cannot find a cup of Paradiso blend coffee from Second Cup.
Iosephe mi amice,
Placet mihi et hoc (auctore ignoto) ex eodem libro carmen:
O Roma nobilis, orbis et domina,
Cunctarum urbium excellentissima,
Roseo martyrum sanguine rubea,
Albis et virginum liliis candida,
Salutem dicimus tibi per omnia,
Te benedicimus: Salve per omnia!
Die proximo Lunae idem rite legam ego cum meis discipulis, cum propinabimus Urbi Aeternae! (Nequivimus enim haec heri facere.)
Bonam Pascham et Valeto!
Ricardo, meo amico feliciter invento Romae,
Illud dulce est carmen mellitumque - id praetermitto pervolvans per libri nostri paginas; mihi iuvat quod addidisti id missui meo.
Nunc . . . cum tuis discipulis propinabitis Urbi indeficienti? Satisne sunt annorum? Si laticem Lyaeum in litterario ludo libabitis, ne liceas lusores lentos fieri. : )
Mihi quoque perplaceat parvum vini in schola bibere, sed plerumque extra scholae bibendum mihi moenia.
Valeto, Ricarde -
Hey,
The Latin back and forth is not fair for us joe six pack Catholics out here!
If you don’t watch it, I’m breaking out my Klingon dictionary and Johnboy and I will go back and forth in our own conversation.
DaHjajaj QaQ Daghajjaj!
Iterum salve, Iosephe!
Ita vero, discipuli non satis habent annorum, sed pro vino bibemus uvae sucum. “Latex Lyaeus” — pulchrum istud verbum!
Latine doceo ultima ludi hora, itaque iam solent discipuli ad me advenire lenti. :^)
Alter Iosephus Klingonum dicat sermone, nihil ego morabor!
Pax et bonum.
Ut videas verba “latex Lyaeus” in propria circumiacentia, ut ita dicam, ii ad Aeneida I, 686. Illa furatus sum ex hoc loco.