Epitome of the Divine Institutes

Epitome divinarum institutionum

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About this work

Author: Lactantius
Attribution: authentic · Accepted as Lactantius's.
Older English translation: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7 (1886) (public domain, at CCEL; for comparison: our translation is made from the original first and checked against it afterwards)
Date: ca. 314–320 (approximate) · An abridgement of the Divine Institutes, made by Lactantius himself.
Written at: Unknown (disputed)
Addressed to: Pentadius
Language: Latin
Genre: treatise
Reference system: chapter.section (Brandt, CSEL 19); 0.1–0.4 = the preface
SBL abbreviation: Epit.
Text from: Samuel Brandt and Georg Laubmann, eds., L. Caeli Firmiani Lactanti Opera omnia, Pars 1, CSEL 19 (Vienna: Tempsky; Leipzig: Freytag, 1890), 675–761 (Printed edition in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0)
Critical editions: Michel Perrin, ed., Lactance: Épitomé des Institutions divines, SC 335 (Paris: Cerf, 1987) (cited, not reproduced)
CTS URN: urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0171.stoa008