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An Essay on the Origin, Progress, and Decline of Rhyming Latin Verse; With Many Specimens

An Essay on the Origin, Progress, and Decline of Rhyming Latin Verse; With Many Specimens

Croke, Alexander

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ISBN10: 0217109012
ISBN13: 9780217109017
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.18 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
. 1828: ... Another, which may suffice: Et canis venatur flustrat, in sylvis et omnia Et lupus J Lnutritur J l.vastat. I shall now proceed to give specimens of rhyming Latin poetry, from the third to the fifteenth centuries inclusive. The Third Century. The oldest poem which I have met with was written by Commodianus. Rigalt, who first published this writer43, misled by an erroneous passage in his manuscript, supposed him to have lived in the reign of Constantine, and during the episcopate of Sylvester: but the learned Dodwell, in an express dissertation upon the subject, has proved him to have been a contemporary of St. Cyprian, who suffered martyrdom in the year 258; and consequently he flourished in the middle of the third century44. He was originally a pagan, probably of At the end of his edition of St. Cyprian, Paris, 1666. Dissertatio de Commodiano, at the end of his Annales Velleiani, etc. The last and best edition of Commodianus is by Davis, at the end of his Minucius Felix. Africa. In the course of his studies, having met with the sacred writings, he was converted to Christianity, and consecrated his talents to the service of his new profession. In this poem he calls himself Gazaeus, whether from the city of Gaza is uncertain, and assumes the humble appellation of Mendicus Christi. It contains about twelve hundred lines, and is entitled Instructions. The subjects are miscellaneous; attacks upon heathenism, and advice to Christians. It is written, as Gennadius justly says, mediocri sermone, et quasi versu, vili satis et crasso sensu. The whole is a series of acrostics, the lines under every head beginning with the letters of which the title consists, as praefatio, indignatio, and so forth. The conclusion, besides being an acrostic upon the name of the author, taking the first letters of each line from the bottom, Commodianus Mendicus Christi, is likewise all in one rhyme. NOMEN GAZ.EI. I ncolae coelorum, futuri cum Deo Christo, T enen...

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