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Therefore, flos is caro Christi, and flores,20 plural, are the arisen bodies of the Saints: the figure of reappearance and ressurection is thus continued by the scattering of flowers; and one may even imagine, if one reads Bernard’s quotation ego sum flos campi et lilium convallium, why DanteDante employed the beautiful verse from VergilVergil (Aen. VI, 882), so welcome for the rhyme. It has presumably not much to do, as DanteDante here uses it, with the death of MarcellusMarcellus;21 it is an allusion to the symbolical meaning of the lily, arising from certain passages of Scripture. The speculation about the lily is very rich and multifarious (spiritualis haec tam pulchra varietas, says Bernard on another occasion); I can give only a rough and inadequate indication by saying that it figures on the one hand Christ, on the other the souls of the righteous or their virtues; to Christ refers Cant. 2, 1, ego flos campi et lilium convallium, often combined with Gen. 27, 27, ecce odor filii mei sicut odor agri pleni cui benedixit dominus; to the righteous Cant. 2, 16–17, Dilectus meus mihi, et ego illi, qui pascitur inter lilia, donec aspiret dies et inclinentur umbrae (these words refer to the Last Day), combined with other passages, especially with the liturgical paraphrase of Hosea, 14, 6, Iustus germinabit sicut lilium et florebit in aeternum ante Dominum.22 I give in the note23 some extracts from texts, where the figurative themes ‘arrival of Christ’, ‘resurrection’ and ‘Last Day’ are indicated – without however limiting myself strictly to these themes. For lilia as the souls of the Saints or the righteous one may also quote DanteDante himself, Par. 23, 74–75: