Prudentius' Psychomachia
'Conflict Of The Soul'

Lyon, Bibliotheque du Palais des Arts, Ms. 22

folio 3r

Abraham pursuing the predators


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Abram sinistris excitatus nuntiis
audit propinquum sorte captum bellica
seruire duris barbarorum uinculis:
armat trecentos terque senos uernulas,
pergant ut hostis terga euntis caedere.
quem gaza diues ac triumphus nobilis
captis tenebant inpeditum copiis.
quin ipse ferrum stringit et plenus deo
reges superbos mole praedarum graues
pellit fugatos, sauciatos proterit,
frangit catenas et rapinam liberat:
aurum, puellas, paruulos, monilia,
greges equarum, uasa, uestem, buculas.
Loth ipse ruptis expeditus nexibus
attrita bacis colla liber erigit.

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