1.1Others offer God a pure conscience or alms; the poet, lacking both, offers his verses, trusting that in God’s house even an earthen vessel has its use and that it will profit him to have praised Christ.
authentic · Named by the poet himself in the Preface to the Cathemerinon and in the manuscripts.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Writer in the church of his time, not venerated by any of the three traditions (check: he is honoured locally in Spain; no entry found in the Roman Martyrology).
Date
ca. 405 (approximate) · The poet says in the Preface (written about 405) that he was born in 348 and gathered his poems then.
Written at
Spain (probable) (probable)
Language
Latin
Genre
poem
Reference system
line (Lanfranchi's numbering), one passage 1.1
SBL abbreviation
Epil.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPL 1445 (not yet checked)
Text from
Aurelii Prudentii Clementis Opera, ed. Lanfranchi, 2 vols. (Turin: Officina Salesiana, 1898); text of the Arevalo tradition, line numbers as printed (Printed edition (1898) in the public domain; text from the archive.org OCR of the Toronto copies (operapru01pruduoft, operaprud02prud), made at the importer's step by separating verse from the editor's notes)