To His Wife
Ad uxorem
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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) · ANF 4 divides book 2 into nine chapters; Oehler (followed here) has eight.
- Date
- ca. 200–206 (approximate) · From Tertullian's earlier (pre-Montanist) period.
- Written at
- Carthage, Africa Proconsularis (North Africa) (probable)
- Addressed to
- his wife
- Language
- Latin
- Genre
- treatise
- Reference system
- book.chapter (Oehler); the section numbers of modern editions are not yet divided
- SBL abbreviation
- Ux.
- Text from
- Franz Oehler, ed., Quinti Septimii Florentis Tertulliani quae supersunt omnia, vol. 1 (Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, 1853), 669–697 (Printed edition in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Critical editions
- Tertulliani Opera, Pars 1: Opera catholica; Adversus Marcionem, CCSL 1 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1954) (cited, not reproduced)
- CTS URN
urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0276.stoa002