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Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus

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Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (c.240–c.320)

Roman teacher and rhetorician. A devout early Christian, he survived persecution of his faith under the Emperor Diocletian to become mentor to Crispus, the son of the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine the Great.

Lactantius was probably a native of Italy, but studied in Africa. In around AD 301, he settled at Nicomedia at the invitation of the Emperor Diocletian (before his persecution of Christians), and about 13 years later went to Augusta Treverorum, Gaul (now Trier, Germany) to tutor Constantine's son. His main work is Divinae Institutiones/Divine Precepts.



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