Severus Sanctus Endelechius (or Endelechus) was a 4th century poet and

rhetorician Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...

, and the writer of ''De Mortibus Boum'' (or ''Bovum''), i.e. ''On the Deaths of Cattle''. It is a poem belonging to the classical

bucolic A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art, and music ( pastorale) that depic ...

tradition, but also concerned with Christian

apologetics Apologetics (from Greek , "speaking in defense") is the religious discipline of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse. Early Christian writers (c. 120–220) who defended their beliefs against critics an ...

. It mentions a cattle plague, which has been identified as

rinderpest Rinderpest (also cattle plague or steppe murrain) was an infectious viral disease of cattle, domestic buffalo, and many other species of even-toed ungulates, including gaurs, buffaloes, large antelope, deer, giraffes, wildebeests, and warthog ...

. Another title is ''Carmen bucolicum de virtute signi crucis domini''. He has been identified with a

Severus who was a friend of

Paulinus of Nola Paulinus of Nola (; la, Paulinus Nolanus; also Anglicized as Pauline of Nola; – 22 June 431) born Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus, was a Roman poet, writer, and senator who attained the ranks of suffect consul () and governor of Campan ...

known as Severus Rhetor.Carolinne White, ''Early Christian Latin Poets'' (2002), p. 70. He probably lived towards the end of the 4th century.

References

Severus Sanctus Endelechus
''The Catholic Encyclopedia'', Volume XIII. *A. D. Lee, ''Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook'' (2000), pp. 130–1.

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