DE IONA. — Poem transmitted under the names of Tertullian and Cyprian, and attributed by Brewer to the poet Cyprianus Gallus.
But wrongly: 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 (105 hexameters) has been preserved; the account of the penance of Nineveh is lacking. It probably dates from the 5th century.
BBL.: Latest ed. by R. Peiper, Cypriani Galli poetae Heptateuchos, Vienna 1891; CSEL, XXIII, pp. 212–26; H. Brewer, Über den Heptateuchdichter Ciprian, in Zeitschrift für kathol. Theol., 28 (1904), pp. 98 ff.; Manitius, Gesch. der Christl. latein. Poesie, Stuttgart 1891, pp. 52–54. Erik Peterson