<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div xml:lang="lat" type="edition" n="urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0238.stoa001.perseus-lat2"><div type="textpart" n="11" subtype="poem"><l n="30">scismata, catholicis reddite vos populis. </l><l n="31">una fides vigeat, prisco quae condita templo est,</l><l n="32">quam Paulus retinet quamque cathedra Petri,</l><l n="33">quae docui, docuisse piget: venerabile martyr</l><l n="34">cerno, quod a cultu rebar abesse Dei.’</l><l n="35">his ubi detorsit laevo de tramite plebem </l><l n="36">monstravitque sequi qua via dextra vocat,</l><l n="37">seque ducem recti spretis anfractibus idem</l><l n="38">praebuit, erroris qui prius auctor erat,</l><l n="39">sistitur insano rectori Christicolas tunc</l><l n="40">ostia vexanti per Tiberina viros. </l><l n="41">illo namque die Roma secesserat, ipsos</l><pb n="p.308"/><l n="42">peste suburbanos ut quateret populos,</l><l n="43">non contentus humum celsae intra moenia Romae</l><l n="44">tinguere iustorum caedibus assiduis.</l><l n="45">Ianiculum cum iam madidum, fora, rostra, Suburam</l><l n="46">cerneret eluvie sanguinis affluere, </l><l n="47">protulerat rabiem Tyrrheni ad litoris oram</l><l n="48">quaeque loca aequoreus proxima portus habet,</l><l n="49">inter carnifices et constipata sedebat</l><l n="50">officia extructo celsior in solio. </l><l n="51">discipulos fidei detestandique rebelles</l><l n="52">idolii ardebat dedere perfidiae,</l><l n="53">carcereo crinita situ stare agmina contra</l><l n="54">iusserat horrendis excrucianda modis,</l><l n="55">inde catenarum tractus, hinc lorea flagra </l><l n="56">stridere, virgarum concrepitare fragor,</l><l n="57">ungula fixa cavis costarum cratibus altos</l><l n="58">pandere secessus et lacerare iecur,</l><l n="59">ac iam lassatis iudex tortoribus ibat</l></div></div></body></text></TEI>