To Fortunatus: Exhortation to Martyrdom

Ad Fortunatum (De exhortatione martyrii)

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About this work

Author: Cyprian of Carthage
Attribution: authentic · Accepted as Cyprian's.
Older English translation: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5 (1886) (public domain, at CCEL; for comparison: our translation is made from the original first and checked against it afterwards) · ANF 5 prints this as Treatise 11, On the Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus.
Date: 253 or 257 (approximate) · Written when a new persecution was expected: either under Gallus (253) or under Valerian (257).
Written at: Carthage, Africa Proconsularis (North Africa) (probable)
Addressed to: Fortunatus
Language: Latin
Genre: treatise
Reference system: preface 0.1–0.5, then chapters 1–13 (Hartel, CSEL 3.1)
SBL abbreviation: Fort.
Text from: Wilhelm von Hartel, ed., S. Thasci Caecili Cypriani Opera omnia, Pars 1, CSEL 3.1 (Vienna: Gerold, 1868), 317–349 (Printed edition in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0)
Critical editions: Sancti Cypriani Episcopi Opera, CCSL 3–3A (Turnhout: Brepols, 1972–1976) (cited, not reproduced)
CTS URN: urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0104a.stoa005