Person
Lactantius
about 250–325
Latin rhetor and Christian apologist
Attested. The career and the books are secure. His praise of Constantine is partisan.
Lactantius taught rhetoric under Diocletian, lost his post in the persecution, and later served at Constantine's court. The Divine Institutes and On the Deaths of the Persecutors are major Latin sources for the Great Persecution and for Constantine's rise. He is a court Christian, not a neutral reporter.
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Councils
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Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this biography. The confidence note is the atlas summary of the evidence.
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