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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Praesens, Bru'ttius the father of Crispina, wife of the emperor Commodus. He is generally supposed to be the C. Bruttius Praesens who appears in the Fasti as consul for A. D. 153, and again for A. D. 180. There is also a C. Bruttius Praesens marked as having been consul for the second time in A. D. 139, and another as consul in A. D. 217. (Capitolin. M. Aurel. 27; Lamprid. Commod. 12; Censorin. 21.) [W.R]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
of the envy and ill-treatment which he experienced on the part of the Roman clergy, he went over to the Montanists, and wrote several books in defence of those heretics; that he lived to a great age, and was the author of many works. Various editors and historians of ecclesiastical literature have endeavoured to extend or illustrate the scanty information conveyed in the above sketch. 1. Since the elevation of Septimius Severus took place in A. D. 193, and since Caracalla was slain in A. D. 217, if we suppose that Tertullian attained to the age of eighty, his birth would fall somewhere about A. D. 160, and his death about A. D. 240. Allix places his birth about 145 or 150, and his death about A. D. 220; but the period thus embraced would scarcely be sufficient to justify the statement of his biographer that he was believed to have attained to extreme old age (usque ad decrepitam aetatem vixisse fertur). 2. It has been inferred from certain expressions which occur in different t
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