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COELIUS See also:SEDULIUS or CAELIUS (a praenomen of doubtful authenticity), a See also:Christian poet of the first See also:half of the 5th See also:century, is termed a See also:presbyter by Isidore of See also:Seville and in the Gelasian See also:decree . He must not be confused with See also:Sedulius the Irish-See also:Scot grammarian of the 9th century . His fame rests See also:main:y upon a See also:long poem, Carmen paschale, based on the four gospels . In See also:style a bombastic imitator of See also:Virgil, he shows, nevertheless, a certain freedom in the handling of the Biblical See also:story, and the poem soon became a See also:quarry for the See also:minor poets . A hymn by Sedulius in See also:honour of See also:Christ,t. consisting of twenty-three quatrains of See also:iambic dimeters, has partly passed into the See also:liturgy, the first seven quatrains forming the See also:Christmas hymn A See also:solis ortus cardine, and some later ones the See also:Epiphany hymn, Hostis Herodes impie . A Veteris et nevi Testamenti collatio in elegiac couplets has also come down, but we have ,IO grounds for ascribing to him the Virgilian See also:cento, De verbi incarnatione . Sedulius's See also:works were edited by F . Arevalo (See also:Rome, 1794), re-printed in J . P . See also:Migne's See also:Patrol . See also:Lat. vol. xix . ; and finally by J .
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