[1] Claudian wrote about 400, mainly in hexameters and elegiacs. Sidonius refers to him; and he is often cited later as a model of verse. [2] About 480-524. _Tractates_ and _De consolatione philosophiæ_, text and translation, ed. Stewart (H. F.) and Rand (E. K.), London and New York, 1918 (Loeb Classical Library). For bibliography, see Manitius I; for introduction to the manifold significance, Stewart’s _Boethius, an essay_, Edinburgh and London, 1891. [3] _De consolatione philosophiæ_ I, Metr. ii. 9. [4] I, Metr. iii. 6. [5] ARP 126-127. [6] Heu quam præcipiti mersa profundo Mens hebet et propria luce relicta Tendit in externas ire tenebras, Terrenis quotiens flatibus aucta Crescit in immensum noxia cura. I, Metr. ii. 1-5. [7] Hymns echoing this measure may be traced in _Mearns_. Bede cites two, which he erroneously ascribes to St. Ambrose (_De arte metrica_, Keil VII. 255, 256). [8] In this poem _or_ recurs at the same place in 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19; 22 rimes with 24 on _-entis_. The rime of adjective with noun is frequent of course; but Boethius marks it by putting one at the cæsura, the other at the end. His most frequent rimes of this sort are on _-as_. For the recurrence of _-os_, _-us_, with neighboring _-o_ see III. ii. 32-35. [9] Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, Spaniard, 348-about 410; prepared a complete edition of his works 405. Often cited in the middle age, his works were printed in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, and have been studied often since. Lanfranchi reëdited the Bodoni edition in 1894 (Turin, second ed., 1904). See, besides Manitius, Boissier, Monceaux, and Glover: Puech, _Prudence, étude sur la poésie latine chrétienne_, Paris, 1888; Lease, _A syntactic, stylistic, and metrical study of P._, Baltimore, 1895; Maigret, _Le poète chrétien P._, Paris, 1903; Ermini (F.), _Peristephànon, studi Prudenziani_, Rome, 1914; Bergman, _Aulus Prudentius Clemens, der grösste christliche Dichter des Alterthums_, Dorpat, 1921-1924. [10] 454. [11] See above, page 17. [12] For Martianus Capella see above, Chapter III; for Alain, below, Chapter VI. [13] See below, C. 2. [14] Puech, however, calls Prudentius in the _Peristephanon_ “l’un des derniers représentants de la déclamation latine,” and perhaps with no more warrant, “le prédécesseur des peintres castillans ou valenciens du xvie ou du xviie siècle” (page 129). [15] Nor has Prudentius, though he is fond of alliteration, much word-play. His verse, rather strictly quantitative, seems undoubtedly to have been so composed, though later it was rendered accentually.