The Divine Institutes is a full defense of Christian worship and justice. On the Deaths of the Persecutors tells how the emperors who attacked the church came to their ends.
Lactantius
Christian rhetor
Lactantius (c. 250–325) taught rhetoric under Diocletian and later served Constantine. Jerome called him the Christian Cicero.
- Dates
- c. 250–325
- Role
- Christian rhetor
- See
- North Africa / Gaul