I don’t really agree with Joyce. Granted, the church made better use of Latin than the Romans, but that just goes to show that a one culture’s bookkeeping terminology can invoke angels for another.

 Stella celi extirpavit
 que lactavit dominum
 Mortis pestem, quam plantavit
 Primus parens hominum.

 Ipsa stella nunc dignetur
 Sidera compescere,
 Quorum bella plebum caedunt
 Diro mortis ulcere.

(Loosely: The star of heaven that nourished the Lord has rooted out the plague of death which was planted by the first father of men; May this star now constrain the constellations whose wars strike the people with the scar of loathesome death)