Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Aperta Navis, Apologetĭcum

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Apologetĭcum

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A treatise of Tertullian composed A.D. 199, addressed to the praesides imperii, and containing a defence of the Christians against the charge of disloyalty to the State and to the emperor. The work is perhaps the most vigorous and original of any that its author wrote. Good editions are those of Oehler (Halle, 1849); Kayser (Paderborn, 1865); and of Migne (Paris, 1870).

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A poem in 1054 lines, by Commodianus (q.v.), composed A.D. 249, and entitled Carmen Apologeticum adversus Iudaeos et Gentes. It is written in hexameters that for the most part set all prosody at defiance, and, like English hexameters, follow the accentuation of the popular pronunciation of the day.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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