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Divinae Institutiones

Divinae Institutiones

Written as a systematic Latin introduction to Christianity for an educated pagan readership just as the Great Persecution under Diocletian broke out, Lactantius's polished Ciceronian prose earned him the nickname 'the Christian Cicero.'

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