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The Psychomachia of Prudentius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

H. J. Thomson
Affiliation:
Bangor, North Wales

Abstract

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Review Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1930

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page 109 note 1 Puech, Prudence; Ebert, Geschichte der Christlichlateinischen Literatur; de Labriolle, Histoire de la Littérature Latine Chrétienne; Glover, Life and Letters in the Fourth Century; Raby, Christian Latin Poetry. Mr. Glover and Mr. Raby mention the importance of the poem for mediaeval religious art.

page 109 note 2 573 ff.

page 109 note 3 Cf. Cath. 4, 13–18, 25–27; Perist. 10, 346.

page 109 note 4 Cf. also the lines at the end of the poem, especially 902–915, where the religious devotion of the poet is evident.

page 110 note 1 Mattingly, , Roman Coins, pp. 68, 163 ff., 239, 250.Google Scholar

page 110 note 2 E.g. Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.

page 110 note 3 Tertullian, De Patientia 15, De Spectaculis 29; Cyprian, De Mortalitate 4; Ambrose, De Abraham, 2, 4, 17, De Cain et Abel 1, 4–5.

page 111 note 1 Hoefer, , De Prudentii Poetae Psychomachia et Carminum Chronologia, Marburg, 1895.Google Scholar

page 111 note 2 Cf. Perist. 10, 84–85.

page 111 note 3 904 ff.

page 111 note 4 I am glad to have the support of Mr. Glover here.

page 111 note 5 Cf. Sikes, Roman Poetry, p. 76.

page 111 note 6 Cf. Psych. 550 with Aen. II. 390. There is also in the language of 551 a reminiscence of Allecto at Aen. VII. 415 changing into the appearance of Calybe.

page 111 note 7 Cf. Psych. 13–16.

page 112 note 1 Cf. the whole passages, especially Psych. 206 and 212–213 with Aen. IX. 598 and 600.

page 112 note 2 E.g. Contra Symmachum II. 583 ff.; Perist. 2, 425.

page 112 note 3 Contra Symm. II. 277 ff., especially 303 ff. and 649–665.

page 112 note 4 Ib. I. 502 ff.; Perist. 2, 481.

page 112 note 5 Apotheosis 376–385.

page 112 note 6 Aen. VIII. 72; Perist. 12, 29.

page 112 note 7 Apoth. 446.