 | 1830 - 570 pages
...misit, Hie juvenes puerique, sencs, castique nepotes, Queis mag6 virgineum placuit retinero pudorem: Hie fateor Damasus volui mea condere membra, Sed cineres timui sanctos vexare piorum." Which lines may be translated thus: "Here, in a heap, the bones of thousands lie: - Their noble souls... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 626 pages
...Hie juvenes, puerique, sencs, castique nepotes, Qucis mage virgineum placuit retinere pudorem. Hie fateor Damasus volui mea condere membra, Sed cineres timui sanctos vexare piorum." What had become of this celebrated monumental inscription, which was, as it were, the title and frontispiece... | |
 | Académie des sciences, lettres et arts de Marseille - 1858 - 956 pages
...misit. Hic juvenes, puerique, senes, castique nepotes, Qui mage virgineum placuit relinere pudorern. Hic fateor, Damasus, volui mea condere membra Sed cineres timui sanctos vexare piorum. C'est dans ces retraites même que plusieurs de ces premiers pontifes , presque tous martyrs , ont... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1870 - 626 pages
...would have wished to be buried, but that he was reluctant to disturb the ashes of the saints : Hie fateor Damasus volui mea condere membra, Sed cineres timui sanctos vexare piorum. Gallery succeeds to gallery, chamber to chamber: here is one all covered with dim fresco of Hebrew... | |
 | Christianity - 1865 - 728 pages
...and inscribed this distich in the crypt in which some of his predecessors had been deposited : Hie fateor Damasus volui mea condere membra ; Sed cineres timui sanctos vexare piorum. The capture of Rome by Alaric, in AD 410, put a final stop to catacomb burial, which had greatly declined... | |
 | Pierre Philippe A.P. Desbassayns (comte de Richemont.) - Catacombs - 1870 - 576 pages
...inscrire dans son poëme, et le caractère touchant avec lequel il a voulu apparaître à la postérité : HIC FATEOR DAMASUS VOLUI MEA CONDERE MEMBRA SED CINERES TIMUI SANCTOS VEXARE PIORUM En effet, Damase, le grand restaurateur des Catacombes, ne repose pas plus que Calliste dans les cryptes... | |
 | Augustus John C. Hare - Rome (Italy) - 1871 - 486 pages
...; Hie juvenes, puerique, senes, castique nepotes, Quis mage virgineum placuit retinere pudorem. Hie fateor Damasus volui mea condere membra, Sed cineres timui sanctos vexare Piorum. " Here, if you would know, lie heaped together a number of the holy, These honoured sepulchres inclose... | |
 | Giovanni Battista de Rossi - Christian antiquities - 1874 - 562 pages
...per riverenziale timore di molestarne le ceneri: Hic (così è inciso in marmo nella cripta papale ) fateor Damasus volui mea condere membra, Sed cineres timui sanctos vexare piorum. Esclusa la basilica di Damaso , restavano quelle dei martiri Marco e Marcelliano, e di Petronilla,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Rome (Italy) - 1875 - 504 pages
...Hie Confessores sancti quos Graecia misit; Hie juvenes, puerique, senes, castique nepotes, Quis mage virgineum placuit retinere pudorem. Hic fateor Damasus...condere membra, Sed cineres timui sanctos vexare Piorum. " Here, if you would know, lie heaped together a number of the holy, These honoured sepulchres inclose... | |
 | John Patterson Lundy - Christian art and symbolism - 1876 - 540 pages
...MlSIT HlC JUVENES PUERIQUE SENES CASTIQUE NEPOTES Quis MAGE VIRGINEUM PLACUIT RETINERE PUDOREM Hie FATEOR DAMASUS VOLUI MEA CONDERE MEMBRA SED CINERES TIMUI SANCTOS VEXARE PIORUM.' "Should you inquire what crowd of the pious dead is here collected together, bodies of the saints retained... | |
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Quis mage virgineum placuit retinere pudorem. Hic fateor Damasus volui mea condere membra, Sed cineres timui sanctos vexare Piorum. 
