On the Deaths of the Persecutors
De mortibus persecutorum
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About this work
- Author
- Lactantius
- Attribution
- authentic · Transmitted in one manuscript under the name of Lucius Caecilius; now generally accepted as Lactantius's, though this was long debated.
- 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. 314–315 (probable) · Written after the defeat of Maximin Daia (313) and before the war between Constantine and Licinius (316).
- Written at
- Nicomedia, Bithynia (Asia Minor) (approximate)
- Addressed to
- Donatus
- Language
- Latin
- Genre
- history
- Reference system
- chapter.section (Brandt, CSEL 27.2)
- SBL abbreviation
- Mort.
- Text from
- Samuel Brandt and Georg Laubmann, eds., L. Caeli Firmiani Lactanti Opera omnia, Pars 2, fasc. 2, CSEL 27.2 (Vienna: Tempsky; Leipzig: Freytag, 1897), 171–238 (Printed edition in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Critical editions
- J. L. Creed, ed., Lactantius: De mortibus persecutorum, OECT (Oxford: Clarendon, 1984); Jacques Moreau, ed., Lactance: De la mort des persécuteurs, SC 39 (Paris: Cerf, 1954) (cited, not reproduced)
- CTS URN
urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0171.stoa002