A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

a Spaniard, lived under Valentian, and wrote a work, partly in prose and partly in poetry, which is thus described by Hieronymus (de Vir. Ill. 100.3) : "volumen, quasi Ὁδοιπορικόν, totius suae vitae statum continens, tam prosa, quam versibus, quod vocavit καταστροφὴν, sive Πεῖραν." (Wernsdorf, Poetae Lutini Minores, vol. v. p. 1491.)