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SEDULIUS, COELIUS

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 580 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SEDULIUS, COELIUS or CAELIUS (a praenomen of doubtful authenticity), a Christian poet of the first half of the 5th century, is termed a presbyter by Isidore of Seville and in the Gelasian decree. He must not be confused with Sedulius the Irish-Scot grammarian of the 9th century. His fame rests main:y upon a long poem, Carmen paschale, based on the four gospels. In style a bombastic imitator of Virgil, he shows, nevertheless, a certain freedom in the handling of the Biblical story, and the poem soon became a quarry for the
minor
  poets. A hymn by Sedulius in honour of Christ,t. consisting of twenty-three quatrains of iambic dimeters, has partly passed into the
liturgy
 , the first seven quatrains forming the Christmas hymn A
solis
  ortus cardine, and some later ones the Epiphany hymn, Hostis Herodes impie. A Veteris et nevi Testamenti collatio in elegiac couplets has also come down, but we have ,IO grounds for ascribing to him the Virgilian cento, De verbi incarnatione.
Sedulius's works were edited by F. Arevalo (Rome, 1794), re-printed in J. P. Migne's Patrol. Lat. vol. xix. ; and finally by J. Huemer (Vienna, 1885). See J. Huemer, De Sedulii poetae vita et scriptis commentatio (Vienna, 1878); M. Manitius, Geschichte der ehristlich-lateinischen Poesie (
Stuttgart
 , I891); Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Lit. (Eng. trans.), 473;
Herzog
 -Hauck, Realencyklopddte fur protestantische Theologie, xviii. (
Leipzig
 , Igoe);
Smith
  and Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography (1887).


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