AURELIUS PUBLIUS CLEMENS PRUDENTIUS
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A Christian poet; born in Spain, about 350 A. D.; died about 410. He wrote: "Hymns for Days and Seasons"; "Apotheosis", 1085 hexameter verses on the divinity of Jesus Christ; "Hamartigenia", the origin of sin; "Psychomachia", virtue and vice contending for man's soul; "Against Symmachus"; "The Martyrs' Crowns"; "Diptychs", comprising forty-nine hexameter tetrastichs on Scriptural events and personages.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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