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SEDULIUS, COELIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 580 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEDULIUS, COELIUS or CAELIUS (a praenomen of doubtful authenticity), a See also:Christian poet of the first See also:half of the 5th See also:century, is termed a See also:presbyter by Isidore of See also:Seville and in the Gelasian See also:decree. He must not be confused with Sedulius the Irish-See also:Scot grammarian of the 9th century. His fame rests See also:main:y upon a See also:long poem, Carmen paschale, based on the four gospels. In See also:style a bombastic imitator of See also:Virgil, he shows, nevertheless, a certain freedom in the handling of the Biblical See also:story, and the poem soon became a See also:quarry for the See also:minor poets. A hymn by Sedulius in See also:honour of See also:Christ,t. consisting of twenty-three quatrains of See also:iambic dimeters, has partly passed into the See also:liturgy, the first seven quatrains forming the See also:Christmas hymn A See also:solis ortus cardine, and some later ones the See also:Epiphany hymn, Hostis Herodes impie. A Veteris et nevi Testamenti collatio in elegiac couplets has also come down, but we have ,IO grounds for ascribing to him the Virgilian See also:cento, De verbi incarnatione. Sedulius's See also:works were edited by F. Arevalo (See also:Rome, 1794), re-printed in J. P. See also:Migne's See also:Patrol. See also:Lat. vol. xix. ; and finally by J.

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Vienna, 1885). See J. Huemer, De Sedulii poetae vita et scriptis commentatio (Vienna, 1878); M. Manitius, Geschichte der ehristlich-lateinischen Poesie (See also:Stuttgart, I891); See also:Teuffel-See also:Schwabe, Hist. of See also:Roman Lit. (Eng. trans.), 473; See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopddte See also:fur protestantische Theologie, xviii. (See also:Leipzig, Igoe); See also:Smith and See also:Wace, See also:Dictionary of Christian See also:Biography (1887).

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