iam quid plebicolas percurram carmine Gracchos, iure potestatis fultos et in arce senatus praecipuos, simulacra deum iussisse revelli cumque suis pariter lictoribus omnipotenti suppliciter Christo se consecrasse regendos? sescentas numerare domos de sanguine prisco nobilium licet ad Christi signacula versas turpis ab idolii vasto emersisse profundo.
It were needless in my song to tell the tale of how the house of the Gracchi, those friends of the people, supported by the authority of office and holding distinguished rank in the high place of the senate, commanded the images of gods to be pulled down, and along with their lictors dedicated themselves humbly to the all-powerful Christ to be ruled henceforth by Him. We may count hundreds of families of old noble blood who turned to the sign of Christ and raised themselves out of the vast abyss of base idolatry.
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