Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IV, 1950 Church Fathers Fathers and ecclesiastical writers up to the end of the 8th century, anonymous works

De Evangelio

By Erik Peterson

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DE EVANGELIO. - A poem of 114 hexameters, which treats of the birth and adoration of Christ, wrongly attributed, in a 9th-century codex, to Hilary of Poitiers. The attribution to the metropolitan Hilary of Arles is poorly founded.

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BIBL.: Edition of the text by R. Peiper, in CSEL. XXIII, pp. 270-274 (cf. proem, p. XVIII ff.); M. Manitius, Geschichte der christlich-lateinischen Poesie, Stuttgart 1891, p. 102 ff.; Moricea, II, part 2, p. 828 ff.

Erik Peterson

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By Erik Peterson

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), col. 1299.

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Peterson, Erik. “De Evangelio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 1299. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/de-evangelio.

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Peterson, Erik. “De Evangelio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1299. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/de-evangelio.

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@incollection{ec4_de_evangelio,
  author    = {Peterson, Erik},
  title     = {De Evangelio},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
  pages     = {1299},
  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-evangelio}
}

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