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Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque

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Cap. XV.] DE NUGIS CURIALIUM. 23<br />

inundationes a medio Mail donee Septuagesima fieret, quae negata<br />

nobis annona, fructibus suifocatis^ foeda quoque germinum noxia et<br />

inutilia creaverunt, communemque fecerunt animalium strageraque<br />

hominum. Cumque Neptunus semper aut saepe Cybeles inopiam<br />

sua copia levet, clausit a terra misericordite viscera mare, solitumque<br />

sorori negavit impendium. Addidit etiam tanquam oblitus<br />

misereri Dominus ad dolorem turpitudinis temporum sterilitatem<br />

terrte, maris, et aeris, spiritum discordiae solvit ab inferis, et quern<br />

cruce carnis assumptoe ligaverat in orbe toto ludere concessit et<br />

pro voto pessimo Christianis illudere. Nondum completam ini-<br />

quitatem malo, ait Dominus, et distulit earn perdere, donee<br />

impleretur ; sed nostra videbitur tam completa tarn cumulata fa-<br />

tuitas, ut non tantura in nostra vel in nos irruat iniquitatis ultio, sed<br />

in personam propriam putetur admittere vindictam Sathanse victor<br />

ejus Dominus Jhesus. Nam in eodem infelicitatis anno, captam<br />

aiunt et captivatam sanctam civitatem Jerusalem a Saladino prin-<br />

cipe paganorum,* pesteque cruentiori depopulatam quam fleverit<br />

Jeremias in threnis, qui flens ait, "Sacerdotes ejus gementes,<br />

virgines ejus squalidse."t Jam in ea nee sacerdotes gemunt nee vir-<br />

gines squalidse sunt, quia non sunt. Ad modicas vastaverat populura<br />

hunc Titus reliquias, ultor injuriarum Domini; sed inscius iste<br />

totum funditus adnullavit, facta prorsus omnium ibi Christian orum<br />

deletione. Sepulcrum et crux Domini praeda sunt canum, quorum<br />

fames in tantum lassata fuit et sanguine martyrorumsatiata, ut plures<br />

ad redemptionem admiserunt, non tam cupiditate pecuniae vel<br />

defectu malitiae, quam ignavia relanguentis et fessae rabiei. Non<br />

enim deerant coUa submissa, sed defecerunt gladii. Redemptis<br />

autem non est subsequuta libertas, sed qui se redimerant dati<br />

* Jerusalem was taken by Saladin on the west. The latter, in their zeal for the<br />

the 2d of October, 1187. The present church, overlooked the moderation shown<br />

chapter was probably written in the midst by the conqueror towards the Christian<br />

of the consternation which the news of population of the holy city,<br />

that event caused among the Christians of f Lamentat. Jerem, i. 4.

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