Prophetic text
Chronologia sive libellus de mundi duratione
Quintus Julius Hilarianus
A short Latin chronology written in 397 by the North African bishop Quintus Julius Hilarianus. It counts six thousand years for the world and reckons that 101 of them remained from the consulship of Caesarius and Atticus.
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Edition and location
Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Chronologia sive libellus de mundi duratione (written 397), chapters XVI (end)–XVII, in J.-P. Migne, Patrologia Latina 13 (Paris), cols. 1104–1105 (Internet Archive patrologiaecur13mign, leaves n555–n556). Transcribed from the page images; the two-column OCR layer was used only to locate the passage. Migne’s æ ligatures and italic scripture quotations (italics not distinguished) retained; column and page breaks joined; line-end hyphenation joined; Migne’s footnote markers omitted. The opening clause of the selection begins a new sentence in Migne after the reckoning to Lucullus’s consulship, which is omitted.
Chapters XVI–XVII, PL 13, cols. 1104–1105