General Note. There is no ms authority for ascribing the above to Lactantius . “It does not, in the least, come up to the purity and eloquence of his style,” says Dupin ; and the same candid author notes the “adoration of the cross” as fatal to any such claim. 2102   Of the following poem, on Easter, Dupin says: “It is attributed to Venantius upon the testimony of some mss. in the Vatican Library.” This writer became known to Gregory of Tours , who died about a.d. 595, and seems to have succeeded him as bishop, dying soon after. Bede quotes his verse on St. Alban , 2103 —   “ Albanum egregium fecunda Britannia profert, ” but styles him “ presbyter Fortunatus .” He was the author of a poem on St. Martin , and another, In Laude Virginum . His works were edited by Brouverius , a Jesuit.     2102     Note 18, p. 327.   2103     The reader will be pleased with a reference, on p. 330 , infra , to the (then recent) conversion of our Saxon forefathers in Kent.