PROSPER OF See also:

• AQUITAINE

AQUITAINE, or PROSPER TIRO (c. 390-C. 465)  , See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian writer and See also:

• DISCIPLE

disciple of St See also:

• AUGUSTINE, SAINT (354-430)
• AUGUSTINE, SAINT (d. c.613)

Augustine, was a native of See also:

• AQUITAINE

Aquitaine, and seems tit' have been educated at See also:

• MARSEILLES

Marseilles . In 431 he appeared in See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome to interview See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope See also:

• CELESTINE (CAELESTINUS)
• CELESTINE, or CELESTITE

Celestine regarding the teachings of St Augustine and then all traces of him are lost until 440, the first See also:

• YEAR

year of the pontificate of See also:

• LEO
• LEO (THE LION)
• LEO, BROTHER (d. c. 1270)
• LEO, HEINRICH (1799-1878)
• LEO, JOHANNES (c. 1494-1552)
• LEO, LEONARDO (1694–1744)

Leo I., who had been in See also:

• GAUL
• GAUL, GILBERT WILLIAM (1855— )

Gaul and thus probably had met Prosper . In any See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case Prosper was soon in Rome, attached to the pope in some secretarial or notarial capacity . Gennadius (De script. eccl . 85) ' Others regarded her as originally a See also:

• MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
• MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)

moon-goddess . ' As the wife of Hades she was represented with the insignia of See also:

• ROYALTY (0. Fr. realte, reialte, royaulte, from Med. Lat. regalitas, the substantive of regalis, of or belonging to a king, rex)

royalty and a See also:

• TORCH (O. Fr. torche, from Med. Lat. tortia, derived from tortus, twisted, torquere, to twist)

torch.mentions a rumour that Prosper dictated the famous letters of Leo I. against See also:

• EUTYCHES (c. 380-c. 456)

Eutyches . The date of his See also:

• DEATH

death is not known, but his See also:

• CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

chronicle goes as far as 455, and the fact that See also:

• AMMIANUS, MARCELLINUS

Ammianus See also:

• MARCELLINUS, ST

Marcellinus mentions him under the year 463 seems to indicate that his death was shortly after that date . Prosper was a See also:

• LAY

lay-See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, but he threw himself with ardour into the religious controversies of his See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, defending Augustine and propagating orthodoxy . The Pelagians were attacked in a glowing polemical poem of about See also:

• ROOD (O.E. rod, a stick, another form of " rod, O.E. rodd, possibly cognate with Lat. rudis, a staff)

rood lines, Adversus ingratos, written about 430 . The theme, See also:

• DOGMA (Gr. Sbypa, from b6aeiv, to seem; literally " that which seems, sc. good or true or useful " to any one)

dogma quod . . . pestifero vomuit coluber sermone Britannus, is relieved by a treatment not lacking in liveliness and in classical See also:

• MEASURES

measures . After Augustine's death he wrote three See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of Augustinian defences, especially against See also:

• VINCENT (or VINCENTIUS), ST
• VINCENT, GEORGE (1796-1831?)
• VINCENT, MARY ANN (1818-1887)

Vincent of Lerins (See also:

• PRO

Pro Augustino responsiones) .

His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• WORK

work was against Cassian's Collatio, his De gratia dei ut libero arbitrio (432) . He also induced Pope Celestine to publish an Epistola ad episcopos Gallorum against Cassian . He had earlier opened a See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence with Augustine, along with his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends Tyro and See also:

• HILARIUS (fl. 1125)
• HILARIUS (HILARY), ST (c. 403-449)
• HILARIUS, or HILARUS (HILARY)

Hilarius, and although he did not meet him personally his See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm for the See also:

• GREAT

great theologian led him to make an abridgment of his commentary on the See also:

• PSALMS, BOOK
• PSALMS, BOOK OF, or PSALTER

Psalms, as well as a collection of sentences from his See also:

• WORKS

works—probably the first dogmatic compilation of that class in which See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter Lombard's See also:

• LIBER

Liber sententiarum is the best-known example . He also put into elegiac See also:

• METRE ((terpuc?, sc. rFxvf, from Gr. Or poi', measure)

metre, in ro6 epigrams, some of Augustine's theological dicta . Far more important historically than these is Prosper's Epitoma chronicon . It is a careless compilation from St See also:

• JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA (1859– )
• JEROME, ST (HIERONYMUS, in full EUSEBIUS SOPHRONIUS HIERONYMUS) (c. 340–420)

Jerome in the earlier See also:

• PART

part, and from other writers in the later, but the lack of other See also:

• SOURCES

sources makes it very valuable for the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period from 425 to 455, which is See also:

• DRAWN

drawn from Prosper's See also:

• PERSONAL

personal experience . There were five different See also:

• EDITIONS

editions, the last of them dating from 455, after the death of Valentinian . For a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time the Chronicon imperiale was also attributed to Prosper Tiro, but without the slightest See also:

• JUSTIFICATION

justification . It is entirely See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent of the real Prosper, and in parts even shows Pelagian tendencies and sympathies . The Chronicon has been edited by T . See also:

• MOMMSEN, THEODOR (1817–1903)

Mommsen in the Chronica minora of the Monumenta Germaniae historica (1892) . The See also:

• COMPLETE

complete works are in See also:

• MIGNE, JACQUES PAUL (1800-1875)

Migne's Patrologia See also:

• LATINA, VIA

latina .

Tome 51 . See L . See also:

• VALENTINE, or VALENTINUS

Valentine, St . Prosper d'Aquitaine (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1900), where a complete See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of previous writings on Prosper is to be found; also A . See also:

• POTTHAST, AUGUST (1824—1898)

Potthast, Bibliotheca historica (1896) .