Enciclopedia Cattolica

Asterius, Turcius Rufus

ASTERIO, TURCIO RUFO

Volume II · p. 153 · 1949

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

ASTERIUS, TURCIUS RUFUS. — Consul of the West in A.D. 494; according to indications in ancient codices, he is said to have published the Paschale Carmen of Sedulius; but

the information is contradicted by the Paschale Opus, in which the author presupposes that his poem is already known.

BIBL.: J. Huemer, in the preface to the edition of Sedulius, CSEL, 10, Vienna 1881, p. VII; U. Moricca, History of Christian Latin Literature, III, Turin n.d., pp. 54 ff. Michele Pellegrino
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