Paulus
14. Of PANNONIA. Gennadius (
De Virt Illustribus, 100.75) calls him PAULUS PRESBYTER, and states that he knew from his own testimony (ex lictis ejus), that he was a Pannonian; but does not say to what church he belonged.
He lived probably in the fifth century--Trithemius and Cave say in A. D. 430,--and wrote
De Virginitate servanda et contemtu Mundi ac Vitae institutione Libri duo addressed to a holy virgin Constantia.
He took the opportunity of abusing "the heretic Jovinian," the great opponent of monasticism [HIERONYMUS], as a luxurious glutton.
The work is lost.
In some MSS. of Gennadius, and by Honorins of Autun (
De Scriptor. Eccles. 2.74), he is called, not. Paulus, but Petrus. (Cave,
Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 414; Trithemius,
De Scriptor. Eccles. 100.146; Fabricius,
Biblioth. Med. ct Infim. Latinitat. vol. v. p. 217, ed. Mansi.)