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Confessions 2.3

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perrēxī ergō ad Simpliciānum, patrem in accipiendā grātiā tunc episcopī Ambrosiī et quem vērē ut patrem dīligēbat.
I went therefore to Simplicianus, the father in having to be received by grace then of bishop Ambrose and who was loving truly as a father.
nārrāvī eī circuitūs errōris meī.
I told to him the circuit of my error.
ubi autem commemorāvī lēgisse mē quōsdam librōs Platōnicōrum, quōs Victorīnus, quondam rhētor urbis Rōmae, quem Chrīstiānum dēfūnctum esse audieram, in Latīnam linguam trānstulisset, grātulātus est mihi quod nōn in aliōrum philosophōrum scrīpta incidissem plēna fallāciārum et dēceptiōnum secundum elementa huius mundī, in istīs autem omnibus modīs īnsinuārī deum et eius verbum.
Where however I recalled to have read certain books of Platonism, which Victorinus, once a teacher of rhetoric of the city of Rome, whom I had heard had died a Christian, had translated in the Latin language, he congratulated me because I had not fallen into the writings of other philosophers full of fallacies and deceptions following the principles of this world, in this however by all manners God and his word are insinuated.
deinde, ut mē exhortārētur ad humilitātem Chrīstī sapientibus absconditam et revēlātam parvulīs, Victorinum ipsum recordātus est, quem Rōmae cum esset familiārissimē nōverat, dēque illō mihi nārrāvit quod nōn silēbō.
Then so that he might exhort for me to the humility of Christ, hidden from the wise and revealed to the small, Victorinus himself to be thought over, whom he had known at Rome while he was most familiar, and of that he told me about those things which I will not be silent.
habet enim magnam laudem grātiae tuae cōnfitendam tibi, quemadmodum ille doctissimus senex et omnium līberālium doctrīnārum perītissimus quīque philosophōrum tam multa lēgeratet dīiūdicāverat, doctor tot nōbilium senātōrum, quī etiam ob īnsigne praeclārī magisteriī, quod cīvēs huius mundī eximium putant,
Indeed he has great praise of your grace deserving to be confessing to you, how that most learned old man, extremely skilled in all liberal subjects and who had read and criticized so many works of philosophy, the instructor of so many noble senators, who also on account of the mark of a very bright teacher, which the citizens think of this extraordinary universe,
statuam Rōmānō forō meruerat et accēperat, ūsque ad illam aetātem venerātor īdōlōrum sacrōrumque sacrilegōrum particeps, quibus tunc tōta ferē Rōmāna nōbilitās īnflāta spīrābat, †popiliosiam† et omnigenūm deūm mōnstra et Anūbem lātrātōrem, quae aliquandō contrā Neptūnum et Venerem contrāque Minervam tēla tenuerant et ā sē victīs iam Rōma supplicābat,
had earned and had accepted the statue in the Roman forum, all the way to that age a venerator of idols and a partner of the sacred and the profane, to which almost the whole nobility of Rome had been inflated he was breathing (something) and all kinds of monster gods and of the barker Anubis, who at the same time had held weapons against Neptune and Venus and against Minerva was beseeching by them victory for Rome,
quae iste senex Victorīnus tot annōs ōre terricrepō dēfēnsitāverat, nōn ērubuerit esse puer Chrīstī tuī et īnfāns fontis tuī, subiectō collō ad humilitātis iugum et ēdomitā fronte ad crucis opprōbrium.
which that old man Victorinus had defended often for so many years by (some) face, he will not blush to be a boy of your Christ and an infant at your fount, by placing under the neck to the yoke of humility and by subduing the forehead, reproach to the Cross.
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