Severus Sanctus Endelechius (or Endelechus) was a 4th century poet and rhetorician, and the writer of De Mortibus Boum (or Bovum), i.e. On the Deaths of Cattle.
It is a poem belonging to the classical bucolic tradition, but also concerned with Christian apologetics.Dennis E. Trout, Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems (1999), p. 110. It mentions a cattle plague, which has been identified as rinderpest. Another title is Carmen bucolicum de virtute signi crucis domini.Walter W. Greg .
He has been identified with a rhetorician Severus who was a friend of Paulinus of Nola known as Severus Rhetor.Carolinne White, Early Christian Latin Poets (2002), p. 70. He probably lived towards the end of the 4th century.
References Severus Sanctus Endelechus, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIII. A. D. Lee, Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (2000), pp. 130–1.
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