Cathemerinon (Hymns for the Day)

Liber Cathemerinon

Written between about 392 and 405; the place is not known. The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

Twelve long hymns for the hours of the day and the feasts of the year.

Poem · first written in Latin

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: Prudentius, Praefatio (dated 405, it lists his poems); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudentius; A.-M. Palmer, Prudentius on the Martyrs (1989)
Place written not known: No source names a place; he wrote after he left public life, probably in Spain