ANTONIO, Poet. - Presumed author of the Carmen adversus gentes, attributed by the manuscripts to Paulinus of Nola. The poem (the 32nd), in 255 hexameters, in which the poet criticizes paganism, Judaism and philosophy, sings the joy of having found the light and the harbor in the Christian religion. Since it begins thus: Discussi, fateor, sectas, Antonius, omnes, Gallandi considers its author to be an A. not otherwise known. But many scholars, taking Antonius as a vocative, attribute the poem to Paulinus. C. Morelli seems to have demonstrated, from the historical content and from the defects of composition, of culture, of verse technique, of language and of style, that the author cannot be Paulinus, and proposes to assign it to the anonymous author of the pseudo-

Cyprianic Carmen ad Senatorem.

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BIBL.: PL 5, 261-283; 61, 689-710; G. Hartel, in CSEL, 30, pp. 329-38; C. Morelli, in Didaskaleion, I (1912), pp. 481-94; O. Bardenhewer, Geschichte der äthrischen Literatur, III, Freiburg im Br. 1912, p. 576 ff.: M. Schanz, Geschichte der römischen Literatur, part 4, I, 1st half, 2nd ed., Munich 1914, p. 263; U. Moricea, Storia della letteratura latina cristiana, II, II, Turin 1928, pp. 1038-40.

Michele Pellegrino

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