1A litany in which the cherubim, the seven chief angels, the sun, moon and stars, the air and weather, the earth and the ocean each praise God, and the congregation answers with Amen and Alleluia.
31Even hell and its angels sing the Amen; the poet closes with a prayer of entreaty and a refrain forbidding the serpent, father of lies, to let any letter be added or removed, excusing scribes' slips and warning the philosophers.
60A damaged fragment that ends in a short threefold prayer to the Father and to Christ, the living Son of God and judge.
disputed · Transmitted with the poems of Orientius; his authorship is doubtful.
Standing
Honoured by the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by: Catholic, Orthodox.
Date
5th-6th century(?) (disputed)
Written at
Gaul (approximate)
Language
Latin
Genre
poem
Reference system
line (the edition's line numbers; each ref is the first line of a passage of 30 lines; a refrain closes every five lines)
SBL abbreviation
Orat.Not yet checked
Text from
Michael Petschenig, ed., Orientii Commonitorium and Carmina, in Poetae Christiani minores, part 1, CSEL 16.1, ed. Robinson Ellis (Vienna: Tempsky, 1888) (Printed edition in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0)
Critical editions
Ellis (as above) (cited only) (cited, not reproduced)