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Psychomachia

The Psychomachia by the Late Antique Latin poet Prudentius, from the early fifth century AD, is probably the first and most influential "pure" medieval allegory, the first in a long tradition of works as diverse as the Romance of the Rose, Everyman, and Piers Plowman.


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“War rages, horrid war
Even in our bones; our double nature sounds
With armèd discord.”

Fervent bella horrida, fervent ossibus inclusa fremit et discordibus armis non simplex natura hominis.

Prudentius book Psychomachia

Fervent bella horrida, fervent
ossibus inclusa fremit et discordibus armis
non simplex natura hominis.
Psychomachia, line 902; translation from C. S. Lewis The Allegory of Love (London: Oxford University Press, [1936] 1975) p. 72.

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