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Ante tuae matrisque parens: quem misit ab astris

Aequaevus genitor verbumque in semina fusum

Virgineos habitare sinus et corporis arti

Iussit inire vias parvaque in sede morari

Quem sedes non ulla capit; qui lumine primo

Vidisti quidquid mundo nascente crearas;

Ipse opifex, opus ipse tui, dignatus iniquas

Aetatis sentire vices, et corporis huius

Dissimiles perferre modos hominemque subire

Ut possis monstrare deum, ne lubricus error

Et decepta diu varii sollertia mundi

Pectora tam multis sineret mortalia saeclis

Auctorem nescire suum …

This fusion of Greek antitheticAntithese rhetoricRhetorik with the paradoxes of the Christian faith has become one of the basic elements not only of mediaeval Christian poetry, but of the entire poetical language in Europe. In DanteDante’s prayerLobrede, some of the formulas of the Laus Christi appear almost verbatim: figlia del suo figlio, suo fattore non disdegnò di farsi sua fattura.

(c) A third important change in the content of the eulogies is revealed in the continuation of the same ‘Laus Christi’; this second part is composed in tu anaphorasAnaphertu-Anapher: