Claudian the Presbyter

Claudian, presbyter of the church at Vienne, a master speaker and shrewd in argument, composed three books On the Condition and Substance of the Soul, in which he discusses how far anything except God is without a body. [a] He also wrote some other things, among them a hymn on our Lord’s Passion, which begins “Sing, my tongue, the glorious.” He was, moreover, the brother of Mamertus, bishop of Vienne. [b]