Severus Sanctus Endelechius Explained
Severus Sanctus Endelechius (or Endelechus) was a 4th century poet and rhetorician, and the writer of De Mortibus Boum (or Bovum), i.e. On the Deaths of Cattle.
It is a poem belonging to the classical bucolic tradition, but also concerned with Christian apologetics.[1] It mentions a cattle plague, which has been identified as rinderpest.[2] [3] Another title is Carmen bucolicum de virtute signi crucis domini.[4]
He has been identified with a rhetorician Severus who was a friend of Paulinus of Nola known as Severus Rhetor.[5] He probably lived towards the end of the 4th century.
References
- Severus Sanctus Endelechus, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIII.
- A. D. Lee, Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (2000), pp. 130–1.
Notes
- Dennis E. Trout, Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems (1999), p. 110.
- Rinderpest . 23 . 348.
- Book: Pastoret . Paul-Pierre . Yamanouchi . Kazuya . Mueller-Doblies* . Uwe . Rweyemamu . Mark M. . Horzinek . Marian . Barrett . Thomas . Rinderpest and peste des petits ruminants : virus plagues of large and small ruminants . 17 December 2005 . . 978-0120883851 . 86–104 . 10.1016/B978-012088385-1/50035-6 . https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780120883851500356 . Rinderpest — an old and worldwide story: history to c. 1902.
- [Walter W. Greg]
- Carolinne White, Early Christian Latin Poets (2002), p. 70.
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