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DE ALEATORIBUS. - In this homily, which is part of the large body of works falsely attributed to St. Cyprian, a bishop, after a forceful opening on the responsibility of pastors of souls, energetically censures gambling with dice as a source of countless evils, as an invention of the devil, declaring that whoever is devoted to it does not deserve the name of Christian, and exhorting instead to entrust one's money to Christ by giving it as a gift to the poor of the Church.
The pamphlet is of historical and particularly linguistic interest, as one of the oldest documents of ancient Christian oratory and of vulgar Latin. The silence of the oldest witnesses and the peculiarities of language and style prevent its attribution to Cyprian; with the first thesis of Harnack, who attributed it to Pope St. Victor, having fallen, it is today placed between 260 and 300.
Bibliography2 worksG. Hartel, s. v. in CSEL, III, part 3, pp. 92-104; P. Monceaux, Histoire littéraire de l'Afrique chrétienne, II, Paris 1902, pp. 112-18.
BIBL.: G. Hartel, s. v. in CSEL, III, part 3, pp. 92-104; P. Monceaux, Histoire littéraire de l'Afrique chrétienne, II, Paris 1902, pp. 112-18.
Pellegrino, Michele. “De Aleatoribus.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 1250. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/de-aleatoribus.
MLA
Pellegrino, Michele. “De Aleatoribus.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1250. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/de-aleatoribus.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec4_de_aleatoribus,
author = {Pellegrino, Michele},
title = {De Aleatoribus},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IV},
pages = {1250},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/de-aleatoribus}
}
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