APRINGIO

APRINGIUS. – He was bishop of Pax Iulia (now Béja) in southern Lusitania (Portugal) at the time of Theudis, king of the Visigoths (531–48). His writings did not appear to have had wide circulation, since Isidore of Seville (c. 470–536), asking (Ep. 25: PL 80, 674) a friend to obtain one for him, declared that he had been unable to read them. The work Isidore sought was the Commentary on the Apocalypse of St John, of which some parts have come down to us (v. Bibliothèque Patrologique, ed. by M. Férotin, I, Paris 1900; ed. A. C. Vega in Scriptores Ecclesiastici Hispano-Latini, fasc. X, Escorial 1941). Isidore (De viris illustribus, 30, ed. G. M. Dzialowski in the work Isidoro und Ildefons als Literaturhistoriker, Münster in V. 1898, p. 53), naturally basing his judgment on the said Commentary, praises Apringius’s eloquence, learning, acumen, and style.