Preces Quotidianae
Scriptural Correction
A note indicating a correction to the source text.
TMNOX EOOINOX.1
Pliny’s Testimony on Christian Worship
A citation from Pliny the Younger describing how Christians gathered to sing hymns to Christ before dawn.
27. Book 10. in these words: that the Christians used to gather on a set day before dawn and sing a hymn to Christ as to God, taking it up with one another in turn."2
Read the original Latin
TMNOX EOOINOX.
xxvii. lib. x. hisce verbis, Quod essent soliti Christiani stato die ante lucem convenire, Carmenque Christo quasi Deo dieere secum invicem."
Notes
- 1 ↩Source reading is opaque and does not yield grammatical Latin; neighboring sections are bibliographic citation fragments (e.g. 'Lib. de Symbolis' before; Pliny-style citation material after). Surface form retained pending source correction.
- 2 ↩Source dieere is almost certainly a corruption of dicere ('to say/sing'); translated on that reading.
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