Chapter 77OrdV.1.77
Humilitas
Binding the Vanquished Foe
The Virtues are called to bind the conquered enemy through the power of humility.
So bind him, O glorious Virtues!1
Read the original Latin
Ligate ergo istum, o Virtutes preclare!
Notes
- 1 ↩The adverbial reading of 'preclare' (gloriously) is preferred over the vocative adjective reading, yielding 'glorious Virtues' as the most natural English rendering of the hortatory address.
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