On the deaths of the persecutors

Title(s):
  • On the deaths of the persecutors
  • Lucii Caecilii liber ad Donatum Confessorem de mortibus persecutorum
    (Lucii Caecilii liber ad Donatum Confessorem de mortibus persecutorum, A book by Lucius Caecilius to Donatus the Confessor on the deaths of the persecutors)
Author:
Period covered:
Nero-Maximinus Daia
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Secular history (general)
  • Biography (collective)
Remarks:
The work is hard to classify. It uses history to prove that God punishes persecutors, in this case emperors.
Edition - Translation:
  • A. Städele (2003) Laktanz, De mortibus persecutorum: Die Todesarten der Verfolger (Fontes christiani, 43). Turnhout.
  • G.J.D. Aalders (1988) Lactantius: De dood van de vervolgers. Kampen.
  • J. Moreau (1954) Lactance: De la mort des persécuteurs. Two Volumes (Sources chrétiennes, 39). Paris.
  • S. Prete (1962) Lattanzio: De mortibus persecutorum. Bologna.
  • J.L. Creed (1984) Lactantius: De mortibus persecutorum (Oxford early Christian texts). Oxford.
  • I. Pesenti (1922) Lattanzio: De mortibus persecutorum. Turin.
  • S. Brandt, G. Laubmann (1897) Lactantius: De mortibus persecutorum (Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum, 27/2). Vienna.
  • R. Teja (1982) Lattanzio: Sobre la muerte de los perseguidores. Madrid.
  • W.J. Walsh (1968) Lactantius: The death of the persecutors. Washington D.C.
  • M.F. McDonald (1965) Lactantius: The minor works. Washington D.C.
  • A. Hartl (1919) Des Lactantius ausgewählte Schriften. Kempten.
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Bibliography:
  • A.S. Christensen (1980) Lactantius the historian: An analysis of the Mortibus persecutorum. Copenhagen.
  • B. Colot (2016) Lactance: Penser la conversion de Rome au temps de Constantin. Florence.