QUODVULTDEUS. - Friend and disciple of St. Augustine, to whom he suggested the composition of the book De haeresibus. Elected archbishop of Carthage, he was expelled by Genseric (Victor of Vita, Hist. persec. Afric. prov., 1, 15), lived in Campania, where he died around 453. With great probability there should be attributed to Q. three sermons De Symbolo (PL 40, 637 ff.), a sermon Contra Iudaeos, paganos et arianos (PL 42, 1117-30), and another Adversus quinque haereses (PL 42, 1101 ff.). Furthermore, the four sermons in PL 40, 677-708 are attributed to him, as well as two published by A. Mai in the Nova Patrum Bibliotheca, I, part 1 (Rome 1852), pp. 251-82. A better text of the sermon De tempore barbarico, which was delivered after the occupation of Carthage, was published by G. Morin, S. Aurelii Augustini tractatus sive sermones inediti (Kempten 1917, p. 181 ff.), who also sees in Q. the author of the work De promissionibus (v.).

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BIBL.: D. Franses, Die Werke des hl. Q., Munich 1920; A. Wilmart, Un sermon africain sur les noces de Cana, in Rev. bénéd., 42 (1930), p. 5 ff.; P. Courcelle, Hist. littér. des grandes invasions german., Paris 1948, pp. 162 ff., 112 ff.

Erik Peterson

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