Opera Omnia; cum Scholiis S. Maximi et Paraphrasi Pachymerae

And in turn, Aurora follows, shining with her rosy hair. Thou art the first Sun, who, with the lamp of the mind and the light of genius, hast unlocked the divine oracles, the hidden gifts of heaven, the various names of the Eternal King, and the diverse ranks in which the celestial Court excels: the watchful ministers in starred raiment at their seats, distinguished by their offices; finally the dwellings, the hidden walls of great heaven which thou hast unsealed. This vivid force of mind overcame these barriers once the obstacles were removed; things which, covered by decay and defiled by foul rust, were once stained, now shine by thy pumice-stone, O LANSSELIUS.

UPON THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE DIVINE DIONYSIUS

THE AREOPAGITE, APOSTLE OF THE GAULS,

AN EPIGRAM.

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Already thy writings, O Dionysius, would have felt the Cypresses, had not the pious right hand of LANSSELIUS brought aid. But now it rises sublime in the Roman buskin—a work which Orcus had previously seen extinguished. A single page provided helping right hands, a page destined to subdue the beasts of Tartarus. The same virtue that generates also preserves: but for him through whom the dead arise, what great glory remains?

TO ST. DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE,

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Who, O venerable elder, led thee back from the Argive borders? What God brought thee to our shores! Was it to give commands to thine own? And sent once more from Athens, thou dost hasten to the Gauls, accompanied by a Gallic Achates: who, born even from the furthest borders of the Morini, and having set out from his fatherland, brought together the neighboring treasures of the Greeks...