Metrical epitaph for Archbishop Theodore preserved in Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica V.8 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/ALDHELM.Theodore.Epit Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings Latin Poems Metrical epitaph for Archbishop Theodore preserved in Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica V.8
Hic sacer in tumba pausat cum corpore praesul Quem nunc Theodorum lingua pelasga uocat. Princeps pontificum, felix summusque sacerdos Limpida discipulis dogmata disseruit. […] Namque diem nonam decimam September habebat, Cum carnis claustra spiritus egreditur, Alma nouae scandens felix consortia uitae, Ciuibus angelicis iunctus in arce poli.