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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS<br />

STUDIES: A. Giannotti, La metrica di Rutilio Namaiiano (Udine 1940); I. Lana,<br />

Rutilio Namaiiano (Turin 1961); J. Carcopino, Rencontres de I'histoire et de la litterature<br />

romaine (Paris 1963) 233—70.<br />

PAULINUS, MEROPIUS PONTIUS<br />

LIFE<br />

b. c. A.D. 355 at Bordeaux; pupil of Ausonius. After embarking on a public career, was<br />

baptized c. 390 <strong>and</strong> later settled in Nola, where he became bishop c. 410 <strong>and</strong> d. 431.<br />

Sources: Gennadius, De vir. ill. 48; Auson. Epist. 19—25; August. Epist. 34; Ambrose,<br />

Epist. 58.3; Paulinus, Epist. 1.10 (ordained priest at Barcelona 25 Dec. 394); ibid. 5<br />

(settled at Nola 395); Uranii presbyteri Ep. ad Pacatum 12 (death). Cf. PLREI 681-3.<br />

WORKS<br />

Thirty-six poems (mostly in hexameters) <strong>and</strong> fifty-one letters. On dating see Fabre<br />

(1948, under Studies below).<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />

TEXTS: W. Hartel, CSEL xxix, xxx (Vienna 1894).<br />

TRANSLATIONS: Letters: P. G. Walsh, 2. vols. (Westminster, Maryl<strong>and</strong> 1967).<br />

Select poems: J. Lindsay, Song of a falling world (London 1948) 93—6.<br />

S T U DIE S: R. Goldschmidt, Paulinus' churches at Nola (Amsterdam 1940); P. Fabre,<br />

Essaisur la chronologie del'oeuvre de Saint Paulin deNole (Paris 1948); N. K. Chadwick,<br />

Poetry <strong>and</strong> letters in early Christian Gaul (London 1955) 63-88; W. Meany, The<br />

humanism of St. Paulinus of Nola (Freiburg-im-Breisgau 1956); C. Pietri, Saint Paulin<br />

de Nole (Namur 1964); S. Prete, S. Paolino di Nola e i'umanesimo cristiano (Bologna<br />

1964); J. Bouma, Het Epithalamium van Paulinus van Nola (Assenj968)j W. H. C.<br />

Frend,' Paulinus of Nola <strong>and</strong> the last century of the western empire', J.R.S. 60 (1969)<br />

1—11; R. P. H. Green, The poetry of Paulinus of Nola: a study of his Latinity (Brussels<br />

1971); A. Esposito, Studio sull' Epistolario di S. Paolino di Nola (Naples 1971);<br />

C. Witke, Numen litterarum: the old <strong>and</strong> the new in Latin poetry from Constantine to<br />

Gregory the Great (Leiden 1971) 75-101; W. H. C. Frend,' The two worlds of Paulinus<br />

of Nola', in (ed.) J. W. Binns, Latin literature of the fourth century (London 1974)<br />

100—33; W. Erdt, Christentum und heidnisch-antike Bildung bei Paulin von Nola<br />

(Meisenheim am Glan 1976).<br />

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