the Renaissance by humanists, who called Lactantius the "Christian Cicero". Also often attributed to Lactantius is the poem The Phoenix, which is based...

Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones 5.2.12–13; Digeser, Christian Empire, 5. Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones 5.2.3; Frend, "Prelude", 13. Lactantius,...

Lactantius Placidus (c. 350 – c. 400 AD) was the presumed author of a commentary on Statius's poem Thebaid. Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel considered him to...

Statius's Thebaid often attributed in manuscripts to a Lactantius Placidus, (c. 350–400 AD). The Lactantius Placidus commentary became the most common medieval...

Trier." The Classical Journal 29 (1933): 3–12. Lactantius, De Mortibus Persecutorum 24.9; Barnes, "Lactantius and Constantine", 43–46; Odahl, 85, 310–11....

similar in size to an eagle, but Lactantius and Ezekiel the Dramatist both claim that the phoenix was larger, with Lactantius declaring that it was even larger...

Paschal Chronicle Ol.268 and the contemporary Lactantius, DMP 19.2) is invalid and confused. Lactantius is commenting on Diocletian and the place where...

to Africa. According to Christian chroniclers Eusebius of Caesarea and Lactantius, the battle marked the beginning of Constantine's conversion to Christianity...

Firmianus Lactantius Evolution Publishing, Merchantville, NJ ISBN 978-1-935228-20-2, p. 2 Lactantius. On the Deaths of the Persecutors, p. 93. Lactantius. On...

Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae 660. Lactantius, 33.1.; Williams 1985, pp. 83–84. Barnes 1981, p. 20. Barnes 1981, pp. 20–21. Lactantius, 10.6–11. Barnes 1981, p...

believe that Lactantius may have written the poem before his conversion to Christianity. The majority of scholars accept that Lactantius was the author...

ˈnika]), literally meaning "in this, conquer". Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was an early Christian author (c. 240 – c. 320) who became an advisor...

Firmianus Lactantius Evolution Publishing, Merchantville, NJ ISBN 978-1-935228-20-2, p. 91 Lactantius. On the Deaths of the Persecutors, p. 63 Lactantius. On...

as the wife of the emperor Diocletian. According to the Latin writer Lactantius, Prisca and her daughter Valeria were "forced to be polluted" by sacrificing...

phoenice by Lactantius (early fourth century), the Bible, and Hexaemeron by Ambrose. The first part of the poem is based solely on Lactantius' piece; the...

Lactantius, 1.6.10. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities IV.62 (repeated by Aulus Gellius I.19); Varro, according to a remark in Lactantius I...

being nominated as caesar of the Western Roman Empire. According to Lactantius, Diocletian objected to Galerius's suggestion, saying in response, "What...

the Christian Roman philosopher Lactantius, written between AD 303 and 311. Arguably the most important of Lactantius's works, the Divinae institutiones—the...

Illyria, where he was born. The form "Daia" given by the Christian writer Lactantius, an important source on the emperor's life, is considered a misspelling...

Critique, which quotes Lactantius attributing the questions to Epicurus. This attribution occurs in chapter 13 of Lactantius's "De Ira Dei", which provides...

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happened. Lactantius, writing 313–315 and around twenty years before Eusebius's Life, also does not mention a vision in the sky. Instead, Lactantius mentions...

ignominious slavery among the Parthians." An early Christian source, Lactantius (thought to be virulently anti-Persian, thanks to the occasional persecution...

Demetrianus was a former pupil of Lactantius, but little is known about him. It was to him that Lactantius, a convert to Christianity, addressed his book...

the story as it has come down in church history. The version found in Lactantius is not in the form of an edict. It is a letter from Licinius to the governors...

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"Christian", in the Latin lyrics of Sumer is icumen in. According to Lactantius, a Latin historian of North African origins saved from poverty by the...

Ancient Aristotle Chanakya Cicero Confucius Han Fei Lactantius Mencius Mozi Plato political philosophy Polybius Shang Sun Tzu Thucydides Xenophon Medieval...

Ancient Augustine Cicero Confucius Lactantius Laozi Mencius Mozi Origen Philo Plato Plutarch Polybius Tertullian Thucydides Xunzi Medieval Alpharabius...

Ancient Aristotle Chanakya Cicero Confucius Han Fei Lactantius Mencius Mozi Plato political philosophy Polybius Shang Sun Tzu Thucydides Xenophon Medieval...