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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS
virtues and pagan vices. Contra Symmachum: polemic against paganism in two books.
Dittochaeon: on scriptural subjects from both testaments. Pubd together in 404 (Prud.
praef. 1). Cf.praef. 34-42 (list of works, possibly chronological) and PLRE 1 214.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXTS AND COMMENTARY: TEXTS: J. Bergman, CSEL 1x1 (Vienna 1926);
M. Lavarenne (Bude, 1943-51); H. J. Thomson (Loeb, 1949-53).; M. P. Cunningham,
CCcxxvi (Turnhout 1966). COMMENTARY: Cathemerinon 1, 2, 5 and 6: M. M. Hijmansvan
Assendelft (Groningen 1976).
TRANSLATION: J. Lindsay, Song of a falling world (London 1948) 96-106
(select poems).
STUDIES: I. Rodriguez-Herrera, Poeta Chrisrianus: Prudentius' Auffassung vom
Wesen und von der Aufgabe des christlichen Dichters (Speyer 1936); B. Peebles, The
poet Prudentius (New York 1951); M. Lavarenne, £tudes sur la langue du poete
Prudence (Paris 1953); I. Lana, Due capitoli Prudenpani (Rome 1962); C. Gnilka,
Siudien $ur Psychomachie des Prudentius (Wiesbaden 1963); K. Thraede, Studien \ur
Sprache und Stil des Prudentius (Gottingen 1965); R. Herzog, Die allegorische Dichtkunst
des Prudentius (Munich 1966); C. Witke, Numen litterarum: the old and new in
Latin poetry from Constantine to Gregory the Great (Leiden—Cologne 1971) 102—44;
M. Smith, Prudentius' Psychomachia: a reexamination (Princeton 1976).
RUTILIUS CLAUDIUS NAMATIANUS
LIFE AND WORKS
b. in Gaul late 4th c. A.D.; his father a distinguished public figure. Magister officiorum
and Praefectus urbi c. 412 and 414. The surviving part (1, except beginning, to 2.65) of
his elegiac poem De reditu suo describes his journey back to Gaul in 417 as far as Luna
on the bay of La Spezia. Date of death unknown. Sources: Rutilius 1.20 (birthplace);
i.575ff. (father); 1.157 and 563 (offices); 1.167, 417, 466, 493, 542 (friends); 1.135-6
(date of poem; interpretations vary).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXTS AND COMMENTARIES: TEXTS: J. Vessereau and F. Prechac (Bude,
1933; 2nd ed. 1961); P. van de Woestijne(Antwerp 1936).COMMENTARIES: J. Vessereau
(Paris 1904); R. Helm (Heidelberg 1933); E. Castorina (Florence 1967), reviewed by
E. J. Kenney, C.R. n.s.18 (1968) 238-9 and P. F. Hovingh, Mnemosyne 23 (1970)
324—5; E. Doblhofer, vol. 1 (Heidelberg 1972: bibliography and tr.).
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