Apringius

APRINGIO. - He was bishop of Pax Iulia (now Béja) in southern Lusitania (Portugal), in the time of Teude, king of the Visigoths (531-48). His writings cannot have enjoyed wide circulation, since Isidoro di Siviglia (ca. 470-536), asking (Ep. 25: PL. 80, 674) a friend to procure one for him, declared that he had been unable to read them. The work requested by Isidoro was the Commentary on the Apocalypse of St. John, of which some portions 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). Isidoro (De viris illustribus, 30, ed. G. M. Dzialowski in the work Isidor und Ildefons als Literaturhistoriker, Münster in V. 1898, p. 53), naturally basing his judgment on the said Commentary, praises A.'s eloquence, learning, acumen, and style.