ENDELECHIO SEVERO, saint. – Author of a bucolic poem, De mortibus bonni, perhaps written toward the end of the 4th century by a Christian rhetorician in Aquitania. The text is in PL 19, 797 ff., and in F. Buecheler and A. Riese (Anthologia latina, I, 2, 2nd ed., Leipzig 1906, p. 334 ff.).
BRL.: Schanz, IV, 2, p. 360 ff. On the symbolic significance of the 33 stanzas V. E. R. Curinus, Europäische Literatur und lateinischer Mittelalter, Bern 1948, p. 496. Erik Peterson