Prudentius

It is scarcely known, says Prudentius, how full Rome is of buried saints—how richly her soil abounds in holy sepulchres.

We have already seen the contemporary account of the Catacombs by Prudentius, in the fourth century.

On the opposite side of the road is the cemetery of Hippolytus, commemorated in the verses of Prudentius in the fourth century.

The Paris Prudentius, in elegant rustic capitals of the 6th century, is another fine codex of the same type.

Prudentius, for instance, is called as an historical witness, yet convicted of fable in much of what he says.