Prosper of Aquitaine
5th-century Roman Christian writer
b. c. 390 · d. c. 463
Prosper of Aquitaine, also called Prosper Tiro, was a Christian writer and disciple of Augustine of Hippo, and the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle. Particularly, Prosper is identified with the (later) axiom 'lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi'—'the law [or those things] we pray is the law we believe is the law we live.
Related people
- Augustine of Hippo disciple of · traditional
Works
- Chronicle 5th century
- Ad coniugem suam 5th century
- Liber epigrammatum 5th century
- epitaphium haereseon
- carmen de providentia
- in obtrectatorem Augustini
- Carmen de ingratis
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How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- De Viris Illustribus (the continuation of Jerome) 1 claim — Prosper appeals to Rome for Augustine