Biographical data on Lactantius are meager.
The principal work of Lactantius is the Divine Institutes (Divinae institutions) which was written ov.
In 317 Constantine summoned Lactantius to Trier to supervise the education of his son Crispus.
Accepting an imperial invitation Lactantius taught rhetoric at Nicomedia but relinquished this professorship after the outbreak of the Diocletian persecution.
Jerome informs us that Lactantius studied under Arnobius.
In his catalogue of illustrious men St.
Biographical data on Lactantius are meager