DE ECCLESIA. – From the fourth century, one hundred and ten hexameters of unknown origin in Virgilian verses (cento), describing a religious service with a sermon on the work of salvation. This poem was recited by its author in church.
BIBL.: Edition by F. Buecheler and A. Riese, Anthologia latina, I, 1, 2nd ed., Lipsia 1894, no. 16; C. Schenkl, in CSEL. XVI, pp. 621–27; M. Manitius, Gesch. der christl.-latein. Poesie, Stoccarda 1891, p. 129 and following; Moricea, II, p. 850 and following. Erik Peterson