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出版Harvard University Press, 1969
ISBN06749943889780674994386
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=E4U3zwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋PRUDENTIUS (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) was born in A.D. 348 probably at Caesaraugusta (Saragossa) and lived mostly in north-eastern Spain, but visited Rome between 400 and 405. His parents presumably Christian, had him educated in literature and rhetoric. He became a barrister and at least once later on an administrator, and afterwards received some high honour from Emperor Theodosius. Aged 57 he already felt old, but it is not known when he died. He was a literary man, a poet, a public servant, a loyal Roman and a strong Christian, admiring the old pagan literature and art, especially the great Latin poets whose forms he used. He achieves a reconciliation of the old pagan culture with the newer Christian faith, and looks on the Roman achievement in history as a preparation for the coming of Christ and the triumph of a spiritual empire. When he wrote the Church was supreme, but paganism still lived. Yet Prudentius, though he attacks 'heresies', prefers to display in poetry positive teachings of Christianity.