DE IONA

OF IONA. — A poem transmitted under the names of Tertullian and Cyprian, and which has been attributed by Brewer to the poet Cyprianus Gallus.

But unjustly: it may be the work of a contemporary and fellow-countryman of the latter. It seems certain that the author of D. I. is also the author of the poem De Sodoma. Of the poem D. I., only the first part has been preserved (105 hexameters); the account of the penance of Nineveh is missing. It is probably from the 5th century.