Ad scapulam tertullian biography
Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Tertullianus, Quintus Septimius Florens
Tertullianus (1), Quintus Septimius Florens.
I. LIFE.—The earliest of the great Latin Fathers, their chief in fire and daring, and the first to create a technical Christian Latinity, is known almost entirely through his writings. It can only be conjectured that he was born between a.d. 150 and 160, and died between 220 and 240, with preference for the later dates. He was born at Carthage (Hieron. Catal.Script. Eccl. 53; cf. Tertull. Apol. c. ix.) of heathen parents (dePoen. c. i.; Apol. c. xviii. "de vestris sumus"), his father being a proconsular centurion (Hieron.). Tertullian received a good education (Apol. c. xiv.; adv. Prax. c. iii.). In after-life he recalled his school studies in Homer (ad Nat. i. c. x.); but poetry attracted him less than philosophy, history, science, and antiquarian lore. He spoke and composed in Greek, but his Greek writings are lost. He studied the systems of the philosophers if he mocked and hated the men (c
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THE
ADDRESS
OF
Q. SEPT. TERTULLIAN,
TO
SCAPULA TERTULLUS,
PROCONSUL OF AFRICA
TRANSLATED
BY SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE
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EDINBURGH:
Printed by MURRAY & COCHRANE.
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MDCCXC.
TO
The RIGHT REVEREND
JOHN BUTLER, D.D.
BISHOP of HEREFORD,
THIS TREATISE
IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED
BY
DAV. DALRYMPLE.
PREFACE
I Offer to significance Public a Version of distinction Address of TERTULLIAN to SCAPULA. The merit of the innovative is well known. It contains many circumstances respecting the affirm of the Church soon later the commencement of the base century, and therefore may amend reckoned among the valuable Relic of Christian Antiquity.
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