§10Sententia tenetur, et quantum audiuimus ab ipso fratre nostro, quem deus faciat pacatum fratrem nostrum, ab isto Emerito est dicta sententia ubi illi damnati sunt.
sentence is held, and as far as we have heard from our very brother himself—whom may God make our peaceful brother—it was by this Emeritus that the sentence was pronounced where those men were condemned.
legatur ipsa sententia ubi illi damnati sunt, et legatur sententia ubi Caecilianum damnauerunt maiores istorum, et uideamus qui rei peiores facti sunt, qui grauiore sententia puniti, qui strepitu maiore damnati.
Let the sentence itself be read where those men were condemned, and let the sentence be read where their ancestors condemned Caecilian, and let us see who were made worse defendants, who were punished with a heavier sentence, who were condemned with a greater uproar.
ibi dixit: licet enim uiperei seminis noxios partus uenenati uteri alueus diu texerit et concepti sceleris uda coagula in aspidum membra tardo se calore uaporauerint, tamen conceptum uirus euanescente umbraculo occultari non potuit.
For there he said: "For although the cavity of the poisoned womb has long covered the harmful offspring of viperous seed, and the wet coagulations of conceived crime have by a slow heat shaped themselves into the limbs of asps, yet the conceived venom could not be hidden when the screening shadow vanished.
nam etsi sero publicum tamen parricidium et facinus suum feta scelerum uota pepererunt, quod ante praedictum est: \'parturiit iniustitiam, concepit dolorem et peperit iniquitatem. \' sed quoniam serenum iam fulget e nubilo nec est confusa criminum silua, cum ad poenam designata sunt nomina — indulgentia enim antehac fuerat —, dum clementiae dimittimus lineam, inuenit causa quos puniat. et inter cetera: loquamur, carissimi fratres, schismatis causas, quia iam non possumus tacere personas. Maximianum fidei aemulum, ueritatis adulterum, ecclesiae matris inimicum, Dathae, Chorae et Abiron ministrum. haec uerba sunt partis Donati in Maximianistas isto ut audiuimus dictante prolata.
For although late, yet their wishes, pregnant with crimes, have brought forth their public parricide and misdeed, which was foretold before: 'He has travailed with injustice, has conceived sorrow, and has brought forth iniquity.' But since a clear sky now shines out from the cloud, and the forest of crimes is not confused, when names have been designated for punishment—for hitherto there had been indulgence—while we let go of the line of clemency, the cause finds those whom it may punish." And among other things: "Let us speak, beloved brothers, of the causes of the schism, because we can no longer keep silent about the persons: Maximian, the rival of the faith, the adulterer of truth, the enemy of mother church, the minister of Dathan, Abiram, and Korah." These are the words of the party of Donatus against the Maximianists, uttered, as we have heard, under his dictation.
scitis autem qui sunt Dathan, Chore et Abiron.
Moreover, you know who Dathan, Korah, and Abiram are.
ipsi primo schisma fecerunt, quibus poena usitata non suffecit: uiuos aperta terra deuorauit.
They first made a schism, for whom the customary punishment was not sufficient: the opened earth swallowed them alive.
Dathae, Chorae et Abiron ministrum, uerba ipsius sunt, de pacis gremio sententiae fulmen excussit.
"The minister of Dathan, Korah, and Abiram"—these are his own words—struck out the lightning-bolt of the sentence from the bosom of peace.
audite adhuc: et quod adhuc eum, inquit, dehiscens terra non absorbuit, ad maius iudicium superis reseruauit.
Hear further: "And because the gaping earth has not yet swallowed him," he says, "it has reserved him for the upper powers for a greater judgment.
raptus enim poenam sui compendio lucrauerat funeris; usuras nunc grauioris colligit faenoris, cum mortuus interest uiuis. uerba sunt ipsius Maximianum damnantis uel potius, ut ipse dicit, \'ore ueridico\' fulminantis. et tamen collecti sunt, aspides uiperae parricidae nec exsufflatur baptismus, quem dedit aspis uipera parricida.
For if he had been snatched away, he would have gained the punishment by the saving of his death; now he collects the usury of a heavier interest, since, though dead, he is present among the living." These are the words of the man himself condemning Maximian, or rather, as he himself says, fulminating "with a truth-telling mouth." And yet they were gathered in—asps, vipers, parricides!—and the baptism which an asp, a viper, a parricide gave is not blown away.
audistis, quantus ignis exarserit eloquentiae, quando inuenit faenum quod posset incendere.
You have heard how great a fire of eloquence flared up, when it found hay which it could set on fire.
frater Emerite, amplexus es fratrem tuum Felicianum tui oris fulmine condemnatum: agnosce fratrem tuum Deuterium tibi etiam genere sociatum.
Brother Emeritus, you have embraced your brother Felician, who was condemned by the lightning-bolt of your own mouth; recognize then your brother Deuterium, who is allied to you even by kinship.