Prudentius
Britishnoun
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The Roman poet Prudentius took the struggle inward, into “the cave of the breast.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Not without great risk to themselves had Jovinian and Prudentius been able to reach home.
From Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Prudentius, when he met the prefect, inquired whether he intended to bring Damasus and his followers to account for the tumult.
From Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by Kingston, William Henry Giles
They were approaching the Basilica Sicininus, when they saw advancing towards it a large body of armed men, headed by a person whom Prudentius recognised as Ursinus, one of the candidates for the vacant bishopric.
From Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by Kingston, William Henry Giles
But the Christian poets Prudentius to Sedulius could hardly have needed two presses to contain their works; nor Gregory the Great the whole of one.
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
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