LAUDES DOMINI. - Anonymous short poem from the beginning of the 4th century, the work of a rhetorician from Flavia Aeduorum (= Autun), who composed in 148 hexameters: « L. D. cum miraculo quod accidit in Aeduico ».
A widower, when he was laid in the tomb, was greeted by his wife, who had long since died. This miracle provides the occasion to speak of the approach of the divine Judgment and to pronounce a panegyric in honor of Christ, creator and savior of the world. It was written between 316 and 323, with imitations of Virgil and Ovid. It is preserved in a single 9th-century manuscript in Paris.
BIBL.: The text is found twice in PL 19, 379-86; 61, 1901-04. The best edition, however, is that of W. Brandes, Über das frühchristliche Gedicht « L. D. », Braunschweig 1887, with commentary. Studies: M. Manitius, Geschichte der christlich-lateinischen Poesie, Stoccarda 1891, pp. 42-44; Moricea, II, II, p. 788 ff.; G. Bardy, in Mem. de l'Acad. de Dijon 1933, p. 306 ff., advances the hypothesis that Relicio of Lyon was the person involved in the miracle.