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ON THE MOST ACCURATE BILINGUAL EDITION

of the surviving works of Dionysius the Great Martyr, the Areopagite,

a poem by FEDERIC MOREL, Royal Chief Teacher.

O DIONYSIUS, father and great teacher,
By no means a chance youth even then, you were yourself the Muse
To the ten orators and to all-wise counselors.
Those who envy you the Areopagite dignity
And the renown of ancient Athens,
Being themselves stripped of honor and of the city’s
Fair glory, shall soon be dreadfully defeated,
Unless they return to their senses at once.
But those, on the other hand, who have brought to light again your holy, wide-ranging writings,
As many as they preserved in the great city,
And the volumes full of sacred teachings,
Publishing your works in Royal types—
The Ecclesiastical and Celestial Hierarchies,
The Divine Names, the Mystical works, and the Epistles—
May they flourish long-lived and all-blessed;
Especially LANSSELIUS the Belgian, as a friend of JESUS,
Who has corrected everything well, and translated them directly.