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 APPENDIX 379 Cathemerinon, see Puech, op. cit.f pp. 95-101. On the metres of Prudentius, see i6., pp. 268-287. Influence of the Psychomachia : Ebert, Vol. I, p. 286; Puech, op. cit., pp. 254-256 ; Bergman, Psychomachia, Prolegomena, XXIX ; Norden, Die antike Kunstprosa, pp. 728-731 ; influence upon art, Male, L'Art religieux, etc., p. 132 sqq. For the use of Prudentius, from Sidonius Appolinaris on, see Praefatio to Vol. I, Cap. III-V of Ed. Delphini of Prudentius; also in the back of Vol. Ill of same edition for list of Prudentius Mss. ; also R. Stettimer, Die illustrirten Prudentiushand- schriften (1895). On the polemic and didactic poems of Pru- dentius : Puech, op cit.j pp. 159-238. Other important didactic poems of the fifth century are : Carmen de Providentia Divina^ of uncertain authorship, but of the beginning of the fifth century. The poem consists of forty-eight elegiac couplets, followed by 875 hexameters. The author discusses the ruin caused by the invasions, and seeks to vindicate the gover- nance of God, as against any who should doubt it. See Clement, Carmina, etc., for this poem, p. 148, and Ebert, Ges., I, pp. 316-320. Commonitorium Jidelihus by Orientius, writ- ten near the middle of the fifth century. A didactic poem for the moral guidance of Christians, composed of two books of elegiacs respectively of 618 and 418 lines, contained in Vol. XVI of Vienna Corpus Script. Eccl., and see Ebert, Ges., I, pp. 410-413. De Ingratxs of Prosper of Aquitaine, written about 429 a.d., and containing about one thousand hexam- eters. It was a controversial poem, directed against Pela- gianism. See Ebert, Ges., I, p. 367. Ausonius: Ebert, I, pp. 294-301; Bossier, Fin du Paganbme, II, pp. 66, 67. Apollinaris Sidonius : Ebert, I, pp. 419-428. His works are published in Vol. VIII of Monumenta Germ. His letters are a mine of information as to manners and society. See Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders, Book III, Chap. Ill, Vol. II (1892) ; also DiU, Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire, Book II, Chap. IV (1898). He re-