Pauli Orosii Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII

Paulus Orosius, a fifth-century disciple of Saint Augustine, authored Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII as an apologetic history intended to demonstrate that the fall of Rome was not a result of Christianity, but rather a reflection of universal human suffering. His work served as the primary historical textbook for centuries, bridging the classical tradition and the medieval Christian worldview through its narrative of human calamity.

This specific edition was published in 1889 by B. G. Teubner in Leipzig. As part of the Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, it reflects the rigorous philological standards of the 19th-century German academic tradition. Edited for scholarly precision rather than aesthetic ornamentation, the volume was intended for university students and researchers who required reliable, critical texts of Latin literature.