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==Versus Concordia==
The opposition between ''concordia'' (concord) and ''discordia'' (discord), and their personifications Concordia and Discordia—a dichotomy made use of by Virgil in the ''Aeneid''—becomes, for late antiquity Latin poets, "something of an obsession".<ref>Hardie, pp. 4, 48.</ref> The opposition of Concordia and Discordia is made explicit in the Christian poet [[Prudentius]]'s early fifth-century allegory ''[[Psychomachia]]'' ("Battle of the Soul"), in which armies of personified Virtues and Vices do battle.<ref>Hardie pp. 5, 49.</ref> After the army of Vices had been "driven off", Discordia, in disguise, entered into the ranks of the triumphant Virtues, seeking to attack Concordia ("Concord"):<ref>Hardie, p. 118.</ref>
{{blockquote|wearing the counterfeit shape of a friend. Her torn mantle and her whip of many snakes were left lying far behind amid the heaps of dead on the field of battle, while she herself, displaying her hair wreathed with leafy olive, answered cheerfully the joyous revellers. But she has a dagger hidden under her raiment, seeking to attack thee, thou greatest of Virtues, thee alone, Concord, of all this number, with bitter treachery.}}
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