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Our only answer every day will be, and the latest posterity will repeat the same: I believe in Jesus Christ, the only Son of the Father, who was conceived of the Holy Ghost, who was born of the Virgin Mary, who suffered death and passion under Pontius Pilate; Quipassus est sub Pontio Pilato.”
The soft heavy murmur of the crowd rose and fell. Catholics were praying all round him, reckless with love and pity: "Jesu, Jesu, save him! Be to him a Jesus!"... "Mary pray! Mary pray!"... "Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem."... "Passus sub Pontio Pilato."... "Crucified dead and buried."... "The forgiveness of sins."... "And the Life Everlasting."...
The former, as is well known, owned and kept with religious care a Greek Homer, which he was unable to read. A complete Latin translation of the Iliad and Odyssey, though a very bad one, vas made at Petrarch's suggestion, and with Boccaccio's help, by a Calabrian Greek, Leonzio Pilato.
The approach of a pestilence led Petrarch to remove his home to Venice: and here he was again visited by Boccaccio, this time in company with Leontio Pilato, a Calabrian Greek trading in books between Italy and Constantinople. Leontio was the translator of Homer, and expounded his poems from the Chair of Rhetoric at Florence.
Jude had declaimed steadily ahead, and was continuing: "Crucifixus etiam pro nobis: sub Pontio Pilato passus, et sepultus est. Et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas." "That's the Nicene," sneered the second undergraduate. "And we wanted the Apostles'!" "You didn't say so! And every fool knows, except you, that the Nicene is the most historic creed!"
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