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878 APPENDIX from Virgil and other classic poets reflected by Juvencus, as well as lists of later and mediaeval writers who use or re- fer to him. For the early translation into Latin hexameters of the books of Moses, ascribed by some to Juvencus, see Ebert, I, pp. 118-121 ; and ib., pp. 122-127 for early Latin Biblical poems, De Sodoma and De Jona (Edited Vol. XXIII of Vienna Ed.), and the Cento Virgilianus of Proba, in which the Old Testament story down to the Flood, and the Gospel story, are told in phrases culled from Virgil. This poem is printed in Vol. XVI of Vienna Ed. of Scrip. Eccl. Orientius : ed. Ellis (Vol. XVI, Vienna Corpus Script. Eccl.) ; Paulinus Nolanus: Carmina, ed. de Hartel (Vienna Corpus Script. Eccl., Vol. XXX, 1894); Claudius Marius Victor : Ebert, I, pp. 368-373. His Alethia is edited by Schenkl, Vol. XVI of the Vienna Corpus, where the writer's reminiscences of Virgil, Ovid, Statius, etc., are noted. Sedulius: Sedulii Opera Omnia, ed. Hiimer, Vol. X, Vienna Corpus Eccl. Script. Lat. Sedulius translated his Paschale Carmen into prose in his Paschale Opus. See Ebert, Gesch., I, pp. 373-383. Humer's edition gives references to authors used by Sedu- lius, and the host of writers who read or praised or imi- tated him. Prudentius: Prudentius, Editio in usum Delphini (1824) ; Psychomachia, critical ed., Bergman (Upsala, 1897) ; Puech, Prudence (Paris, 1888). On the relation of the Peristepha- non to any written sources, see the references to various acta given at the beginning of each hymn in the Editio Delphini of Prudentius, also Ruinart, Acta Martyrum Sin- cera (1713), pp. 196-215, 218-222, 358-360, 364-373, 457- 461, 497-500 ; and generally, Puech, Prudence, p. 102 et seq. For literary criticism on the Cathemerinon and Peristepha- non, and the literary relations of Prudentius to Ambrose and Damasus, see Puech, op cit., p. 80 et seq. and p. 113 et seq. ; Boissier, Fin du Paganisme, Vol. II, pp. 105-151. For the influence of Horace upon Prudentius in the hymns of the