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Who he was
- A Christian Latin poet who lived ca. 400.
- Nothing is certain about his life, even the identification with Gaul being questioned.
- He uses a pre-Vulgate version of the biblical text and sometimesgoes back directly to the Septuagint.
- He is sober and concise in his descriptions and carefully avoids any reference to classical mythology.
What he wrote
- Cyprian is the probable author of the Heptateuchos, a poetic paraphrase of the first seven books of the Old Testament, which evidences knowledge of the Latin poets both Christian and classical, Virgil especially.
- Other works attributed to him are dubious or spurious.
- In his exegesis he sometimes gives preference to the literal sense.