3 Dimicatum, et Maxentiani milites praevalebant, donec postea confirmato animo Constantinus et ad utrumque paratus copias omnes ad urbem propius admovit et a regione pontis Mulvii consedit. 4 Imminebat dies quo Maxentius imperium ceperat, qui est a.d. sextum Kalendas Novembres, et quinquennalia terminabantur. 5 Commonitus est in quiete Constantinus, ut caeleste signum dei notaret in scutis atque ita proelium committeret. Facit ut iussus est et transversa X littera, summo capite circumflexo, Christum in scutis notat. Quo signo armatus exercitus capit ferrum. Procedit hostis obviam sine imperatore pontemque transgreditur, acies pari fronte concurrunt, summa vi utrimque pugnatur
The founding father
Publius Optatianus Porphyrius
Of Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius we ignore both the date of birth and that of death. All we know is that he was praefectus in Rome in 329 and in 333 A.D. and that he appears to have been a Christian. Sent into exile by the Emperor Costantine for motives unknown to us, in order to regain the emperor’s favour he wrote his “Panegyric to the Emperor”. Consisting in thirty one poems, twenty of which composed in a novel kind of figurative poetry, the versus intexti: poems II - II - III - V- VI - VII - VIII - IX -X - XI -XII - XIII - XIV - XVI - XVIII - XIX - XXI - XXII - XXIII - XXIV - XXXI.
Autor: Seeck, Otto
Titel: Das Leben des Dichters Porphyrius
Seitenangabe: 267-282
Bandangabe: 63
Jahrgang: 1908
Dokumenttyp: Aufsatz
Gesamttitel: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie