Lactantius
c. 250 – 325 · Ante-Nicene theologians · Latin
Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius; the "Christian Cicero." Rhetorician at the court of Diocletian (before his conversion), then teacher of Constantine's son Crispus. His Divine Institutes, in seven books, is the first sustained Latin systematic apologetic; his On the Death of the Persecutors is the principal narrative source for the Great Persecution and the Edict of Milan.
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