Enciclopedia Cattolica

De Fratribus Septem Machabaeis Carmen

DE FRATRIBUS SEPTEM MACCABAEIS CARMEN

Volume IV · p. 769 · 1950

English translation · Testo originale italiano

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

DE FRATRIBUS SEPTEM MACCABAEIS CARMEN. – This poem, in 394 hexameters, has been transmitted under the names of Mario Vittorino and Ilario d’Arles. Peiper wishes to attribute it to another Ilario, a contemporary of the metropolitan Ilario d’Arles. The text presupposes an account of the martyrdom of the seven brothers and their mother that differs in part from II Mach. 7.

BIBL.: text published by R. Peiper, in CSEL, XXIII, p. 240, cf. p. 255, cf. Proem. p. XXIX; M. Manitius, Gesch. di christl. lat. Poesie bis z. Mitte des 1. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart 1891, p. 113 SGR. Erik Peterson

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(from D. De Foe, Aventures de Robinson Crusoe, Paris 1932) DE FOE, DANIEL – Portrait. From a drawing by E. Deveria, engraved by Chevanchet in 1845.

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“DE FRATRIBUS SEPTEM MACCABAEIS CARMEN.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), p. 769. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/de-fratribus-septem-maccabaeis-carmen.