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,...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

mentioned by Lactantius who accused Jesus of having gathered a band of brigands may have been Sossianus Hierocles. According to Lactantius the individual...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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 Augustine Cicero Confucius Lactantius Laozi Mencius Mozi Origen Philo Plato Polybius Tertullian Thucydides Xunzi Medieval Alpharabius Aquinas Avempace...

Persecutorum by Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius. Arx Publishing. pp. 91–92. ISBN 978-1-935228-20-2. Lactantius provides the only extant information on...

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...

the river Cephisus. In his commentary on Statius's Thebaid, Latin poet Lactantius Placidus says that to escape Apollo's amorous advances, Castalia transformed...

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

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