PAULINA (Paulinus) of Pellet

Paulin; Paulinus, from Pella in Macedonia, the genus. in 376, Latin Christian poet. His father, Hesperia, probably the son of the poet Avsonij, was the ruler of Macedonia. Elder Vosmidesyatitrehletnim P. described his life in his poem Eucharisticos (459), the hymn of thanksgiving to God their. This autobiography begins with a preface written in prose. Further work consists of 616 irregular hexameters with metric and prosodic errors. In verse speaks frequently rhyme, rarely - assonance and alliteration. Product P. can learn a lot about the life of the author and his age. We know that in his youth P. read Greek Isocrates and Homer, and the reading of Virgil, due to ignorance of Latin, of considerable difficulty. After traveling to the Alps, Carthage, Rome, Burdigaliyu, Bazes he settled under Massilia (sovr. Marseille). Among the wars of this tumultuous time, P. lost property and lost his entire family. Autobiography II. sustained in a somewhat naive tone, not rhetorical, it apart from other works of that era. P. demonstrates knowledge of Virgil, Avsonij, Paulina from Nola, Maria Quiz.