an ecclesiastical writer who flourished about the beginning of the 5th century, and was contemporary with Rufinus and St Jerome. He was the disciple of St Martin of Tours, whose life he has written; and the friend of Paulinus bishop of Nola, with whom he held an intimate correspondence. The principal of his works is his Historia Sacra, from the creation of the world to the conflagration of Stilicho and Aurelian, about the year 400; in which his style is elegant beyond the age he lived in.