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See also:JUVENCUS, See also:GAIUS VETTIUS AQUILINUS , See also:Christian poet, flourished during the reign of See also:Constantine the See also:Great. Nothingis known of him except that he was a See also:Spanish See also:presbyter of distinguished See also:family. About 330 he published his Libri evangeliorum IV., each See also:book containing about 800 hexameters. The See also:division into books is possibly a See also:reminiscence of the number of the Gospels. The See also:work itself, written with the See also:idea of ousting the absurdities of See also:Pagan See also:mythology and replacing them by the truths of See also:Christianity, may be called the first Christian epic. In the Praefatio the author expresses the See also:hope that the sacredness of his subject may procure him safety at the final conflagration of the See also:world and See also:admission into See also:heaven. The whole is, in the See also:main, a poetical version of the See also:Gospel of See also:Matthew, the other evangelists only being used for supplementary details. It is founded upon a pre-See also:vulgate Latin • See also:translation, although there is See also:evidence that juvencus also consulted the See also:Greek. In spite of metrical irregularities, the See also:language and See also:style are See also:simple and show See also:good See also:taste, being See also:free from the artificiality of other Christian poets and See also:prose writers, and the author has made excellent use of See also:Virgil (his See also:chief See also:model) and other classical writers. Juvencus set the See also:fashion of See also:verse See also:translations of the See also:Bible, and the large number of See also:MSS. of his poem mentioned in lists and still extant are sufficient evidence of its great popularity. According to See also:Jerome, he was also the author of some poems on the sacraments, but no trace of these has survived. The Latin Heptateuch, a See also:hexameter version of the first seven books of the Old Testament, has been attributed to Juvencus amongst others; but it is now generally supposed to be the work of a certain Cyprianus, a See also:Gaul who lived in the 6th See also:century, possibly a See also:bishop of See also:Toulon, author of the See also:Life of Caesarius, bishop of Arelate (See also:Arles). See M. Manitius, Geschichte der christlich-lateinischen Poesie (1891) ; A. See also:Ebert, Allgemeine Geschichte der Literatur See also:des Mittelalters, vol. i. (1889); See also:editions of Juvencus by C. Marold (1886); J. I-Iumer in Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum, vol.See also:xxiv. (See also:Vienna, 1891) ; J. T. See also:Hatfield, A Study of Juvencus (189o), dealing with syntax, See also:metre and language; editions of the Heptateuch by J. E. B. See also:Mayor (1889; reviewed by W. Sanday in Classical See also:Review, See also:October 1889, and by J. T. Hatfield in See also:American See also:Journal of See also:Philology, vol. xi., 189o), and R. Peiper, vol. See also:xxiii. of the Vienna See also:series above. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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