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Orosius, Paulus 5th century
Spanish priest and historian

Born probably in Braga, he studied under Jerome at Bethlehem. He was the author of a seven-volume universal history called Historiarum adversus Paganos, from the Creation to AD417, a favourite textbook during the Middle Ages which was translated into Anglo-Saxon by King Alfred.