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See also:DRACONTIUS, BLOSSIUS See also:AEMILIUS , of See also:Carthage (according to the See also:early tradition, of See also:Spanish origin), See also:Christian poet, flourished in the latter See also:part of the 5th See also:century A.D. He belonged to a See also:family of landed proprietors, and practised as an See also:advocate in his native See also:place. After the See also:conquest of the See also:country by the See also:Vandals, Dracontius was at first allowed to retain See also:possession of his estates, but was subsequently deprived of his See also:property and thrown into See also:prison by the Vandal See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, whose triumphs he had omitted to celebrate, while he had written a See also:panegyric on a See also:foreign and hostile ruler. He subsequently addressed an elegiac poem to the king, asking See also:pardon and See also:pleading for See also:release. The result is not known, but it is supposed that Dracontius obtained his See also:liberty and migrated to See also:northern See also:Italy in See also:search of See also:peace and quietness. This is consistent with the See also:discovery at See also:Bobbio of a 15th-century MS., now in the Museo Borbonico at See also:Naples, containing a number of poems by Dracontius (the Carmina mainora). The most important of his See also:works is the De laudibus Dei or De Deo in three books, wrongly attributed by MS. tradition to St See also:Augustine. The See also:account of the creation,
which occupies the greater part of the first See also:book, was at an early date edited separately under the See also:title of Hexaemeron, and it was
not till 1791 that the three books were edited by See also:Cardinal
Arevalo. The See also:apology (Satisfactio) consists of 158 elegiac
couplets; it is generally supposed that the king. addressed is Gunthamund (484-496). The Carmina minora, nearly all in See also:hexameter See also:verse, consist of school exercises and rhetorical declamations, amongst others the See also:fable of See also:Hylas, with a See also:preface to his See also:tutor, the grammarian Felicianus; the See also:rape of See also:Helen; the See also:story of See also:Medea; two epithalamia. It is also probable that Dracontius was the author of the Orestis tragoedia, a poem of some x000 hexameters, which in See also:language, See also:metre and See also:general treatment of the subject exhibits a striking resemblance to the other works of Dracontius. Opinions differ as to his poetical merits, but, when due See also:allowance is made for rhetorical exaggeration and consequent want of lucidity, his works show considerable vigour of expression, and a remarkable knowledge of the See also:Bible and of See also:Roman classical literature.
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