DE IUDICIO DOMINI. - A poem also entitled Carmen ad Flavium Felicem, which in the past was attributed to Tertulliano or s. Cipriano. But the Flavius Felix mentioned in the title is undoubtedly the same man who lived in the time of Trasamundo, king of the Vandals (496–523), at Carthage, where he composed several poems (v. Manitius, Gesch. der Christi-latein. Poesie, Stoccarda 1891, p. 342; W. Meyer, Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur Mittellateinischen Rhythmik, II, Berlino 1905, p. 122).
The African poet especially imitated Draconzio, who lived under Trasamundo’s predecessor (Waszink in his edition, p. 33). The attribution of the short poem to Verecundus cannot be maintained (Manitius, p. 155; Waszink, op. cit., p. 35). The author, who probably lived in Africa around 500, knew the works of Commodiano, Draconius, Iuvencus, and the Carmen adversus Marcionitas, but in his eschatological ideas he also appears to have been influenced by an Eastern source (Oracula Sibyllina?). In his proofs for the resurrection of the dead, the author preserved an old tradition. The same applies to his catalogue of vices (Apocalypse of Peter?).