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Severus Sanctus Endelechius
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Severus Sanctus Endelechius (or Endelechus) was a 4th century poet and rhetorician, and the writer of De Mortibus Boum (or Bovum), i.e. On the Deaths of Cattle.
It is a poem belonging to the classical bucolic tradition, but also concerned with Christian apologetics.[1] It mentions a cattle plague, which has been identified as rinderpest.[2][3] Another title is Carmen bucolicum de virtute signi crucis domini.[4]
He has been identified with a rhetorician Severus who was a friend of Paulinus of Nola known as Severus Rhetor.[5] He probably lived towards the end of the 4th century.
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- Severus Sanctus Endelechus, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIII.
- A. D. Lee, Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (2000), pp. 130–1.
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