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XIII.
Prudentius,2592
a man well versed in secular
literature, composed a Trocheum2593
| 2593 Trocheum. There is much controversy
over the word, some maintaining that it should be Dittochaeon=
“the double food or double testament” (Lock in Smith and
Wace) or Diptychon. It is a description of a series of pictures from
the Bible. The mss. read Trocheum a.e.;
Troceum T 25; Trocetum 30; Trocleum A; Tropeum 31. A recent monograph
on the subject has not yet come to hand. | of selected persons from the whole Old
and New Testament. He wrote a commentary also, after the fashion of the
Greeks, On the six days of creation from creation of the world
until the creation of the first man and his fall. He wrote also short
books which are entitled in the Greek, Apotheosis, Psychomachia
and Hamartigenia, that is On divinity, On spiritual conflict,
On the origin of sin. He wrote also In praise of martyrs, an
invitation to martyrdom in one book citing several as examples and
another of Hymns, but specially directed Against
Symmachus2594
| 2594 Symmachus. Two works are here
confused, the work against Symmachus, and the Cathemerinon hymns, in
the preface to which the quotation occurs. | who defended
idolatry, from which we learn that Palatinus was a soldier.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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