biography
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Lactantius
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in full Lucius Cae(ci)lius Firmianus Lactantius
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pronunciation:
[laktanshius]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.240–c.320)
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| biography:
| Christian apologist, brought up in North Africa. His principal work is his Divinarum Institutionum libri vii, a systematic account of Christian attitudes. He settled as a teacher of rhetoric in Nicomedia, Bithynia, where he witnessed the constancy of the Christian martyrs under the persecution of Diocletian. |
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