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    the Renaissance by humanists, who called Lactantius the "Christian Cicero". Also often attributed to Lactantius is the poem The Phoenix, which is based...
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    Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones 5.2.12–13; Digeser, Christian Empire, 5. Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones 5.2.3; Frend, "Prelude", 13. Lactantius,...
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    Statius's Thebaid often attributed in manuscripts to a Lactantius Placidus, (c. 350–400 AD). The Lactantius Placidus commentary became the most common medieval...
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    Paschal Chronicle Ol.268 and the contemporary Lactantius, DMP 19.2) is invalid and confused. Lactantius is commenting on Diocletian and the place where...
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  • 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...
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    to comply with his plan. Lactantius also claims that he had done the same to Maximian at Sirmium. Scholars doubt Lactantius' account, since he had a strong...
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    Trier." The Classical Journal 29 (1933): 3–12. Lactantius, De Mortibus Persecutorum 24.9; Barnes, "Lactantius and Constantine", 43–46; Odahl, 85, 310–11....
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  • believe that Lactantius may have written the poem before his conversion to Christianity. The majority of scholars accept that Lactantius was the author...
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    to Africa. According to Christian chroniclers Eusebius of Caesarea and Lactantius, the battle marked the beginning of Constantine's conversion to Christianity...
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    níka", literally meaning "in this, conquer". Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was an early Christian author (c. 240 – c. 320) who became an advisor...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    being nominated as caesar of the Western Roman Empire. According to Lactantius, Diocletian objected to Galerius's suggestion, saying in response, "What...
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  • 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...
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    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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    the Christian Roman philosopher Lactantius, written between AD 303 and 311. Arguably the most important of Lactantius's works, the Divinae institutiones—the...
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  • 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...
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    ignominious slavery among the Parthians." An early Christian source, Lactantius (thought to be virulently anti-Persian, thanks to the occasional persecution...
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  • mentioned by Lactantius who accused Jesus of having gathered a band of brigands may have been Sossianus Hierocles. According to Lactantius the individual...
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  • Ceramicus of Athens. Orph. De Lapid. Prooem. i. Pausanias, 1.3.3 & 8.41.5 Lactantius, 5.3 Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alexicacus". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary...
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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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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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...
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    Ancient Augustine Cicero Confucius Lactantius Laozi Mencius Mozi Origen Philo Plato Polybius Tertullian Thucydides Xunzi Medieval Alpharabius Aquinas Avempace...
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  • Persecutorum by Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius. Arx Publishing. pp. 91–92. ISBN 978-1-935228-20-2. Lactantius provides the only extant information on...
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    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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    the river Cephisus. In his commentary on Statius's Thebaid, Latin poet Lactantius Placidus says that to escape Apollo's amorous advances, Castalia transformed...
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    Antiquity Aristotle Chanakya Cicero Confucius Han Fei Lactantius Mencius Mozi Plato political philosophy Polybius Shang Sun Tzu Thucydides Xenophon Middle...
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    Ancient Augustine Cicero Confucius Lactantius Laozi Mencius Mozi Origen Philo Plato Polybius Tertullian Thucydides Xunzi Medieval Alpharabius Aquinas Avempace...
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