Opera Omnia; cum Scholiis S. Maximi et Paraphrasi Pachymerae

They shall seek thee out, and at last, rejoicing, he has led thee
to the well-known threshold, and settled thee in the populous city of Isis original: "Isidis urbe." A humanist reference to Paris, based on a contemporary (though historically debated) belief that the city's name derived from a temple of the Egyptian goddess Isis.,
which now venerates the victorious JESUS alongside thee.

UPON THE DIVINE BOOKS OF THE DIVINE DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE,

PATRON AND APOSTLE OF THE PARISIANS AND THE GAULS,

illustrated with learned interpretations by the Reverend Father

Peter Lansselius of the Society of Jesus; a poem by Lord

GERARD MILET, monk and Choir-leader of Marchiennes.

NOW Dionysius has returned to the city by right of restoration original: "postliminio," a legal term referring to the return of a person to their original rank or rights after a period of absence.,
the city ancient in its origin, named for the name of Paris,
he seeks to cultivate this place again with divine laws;
the city which he once, as a foreigner, watered with his own blood;
uprooting pagan cults and overturning the altars
of the demon, he now drenches his own pledges That is, the people or the church he founded. with heavenly dew,
as his monuments once again enjoy the light;
with a living voice he called his Parisians to the standards
of Christ; he taught the laws by which the high temples
of the Thunderer original: "Tonantis," a classical epithet for Jupiter, here applied to the Christian God in the high poetic style of the Renaissance. are entered; now, with a resounding voice,
he publishes his books through the help of LANSSELIUS. Thy voice,
which was once known to so few, has now begun to shine
throughout the world for both thy Gauls and thy Greeks.

TO THE BLESSED DIONYSIUS, RESTORED

TO HIS ORIGINAL LUSTER BY THE REVEREND FATHER

PETER LANSSELIUS OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS.

FRANCE, shrouded in Cimmerian A classical reference to a mythical people living in perpetual darkness; used here to describe the state of France before its conversion. and thick darkness,
performed mystic rites to Bacchus and Ceres:
The wretched people wandered far through inhospitable wastes,
and the guide of the way was himself a devious error.
No light of faith shone for them, no torch flickered;
the more the people sought, the less they found.
But at last the divine Mind, having pitied their heavy labors,
granted the clear lights of the Gospel.
The illustrious torch of faith shone from the shores of the Greeks;
once it was seen, the gloomy night fled from the Franks.