Gesmas

These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and Gestas, or Dismas and Gesmas.

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Dismas seeks the heights, Gesmas, unhappy man, the lowest regions; the highest power will preserve us and our effects.

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And he was on the right side of our Lord, and that other on the left side was damned, which was called Gesmas.

The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

Note: On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas and Gesmas, between is the divine power.

Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and Gestas, or Dismas and Gesmas.

Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

Dismas seeks the heights, Gesmas, unhappy man, the lowest regions; the highest power will preserve us and our effects.

Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

DIS'MAS, the penitent thief; Gesmas the impenitent one.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

In the verses quoted by A.B. R. (p. 238.) they are written _Gesmas and Desmas_.

Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

Gesmas, unhappy man, the lowest regions; the highest power will preserve us and our effects.

Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

15 On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas and Gesmas, between is the divine power.

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