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Lactantius (c. 240–c. 320)

Lactantius Firmianus (lak-tan’shi-us fėr-mi-ā-nus), Lucius CÆlius or CÆcilius. A Christian author of the fourth century, A.D. A pupil of the rhetorician Arnobius, he became a teacher of rhetoric in Nicomedia, and afterwards tutor to Crispus, son of Constantine the Great. His principal work, ‘The Divine Institutes,’ a production of a polemical character, earned for him the title of the “Christian Cicero.” A poem on the ‘Phœnix,’ usually ascribed to him, was translated into Anglo-Saxon.

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