On Modesty
De pudicitia
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About this work
- Author
- Tertullian
- Attribution
- authentic · Undisputed work of Tertullian, transmitted under his name.
- Older English translation
- Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4 (1885) (public domain, at CCEL; for comparison: our translation is made from the original first and checked against it afterwards)
- Date
- ca. 210–220 (approximate) · Written in Tertullian's Montanist period (he appeals to the New Prophecy). The bishop whose edict on the forgiveness of adultery it attacks (ch. 1) is unnamed; Callixtus of Rome and a bishop of Carthage have both been proposed.
- Written at
- Carthage, Africa Proconsularis (North Africa) (probable)
- Language
- Latin
- Genre
- treatise
- Reference system
- chapter (as divided in CSEL 20); the section numbers of modern editions are not yet divided
- SBL abbreviation
- Pud.
- Text from
- August Reifferscheid and Georg Wissowa, eds., Quinti Septimi Florentis Tertulliani Opera, Pars 1, CSEL 20 (Vienna: Tempsky; Leipzig: Freytag, 1890), 219–274 (Printed edition in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Critical editions
- Tertulliani Opera, Pars 2: Opera montanistica, CCSL 2 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1954) (cited, not reproduced)
- CTS URN
urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0275.stoa025