Paperback: In the first of his Dialogues, Severus puts into the mouth of an interlocutor (Postumianus) a pleasing description of the life of coenobites and solitaries in the deserts bordering on Egypt. The main evidence of the virtue attained by them lies in the voluntary subjection to them of the savage beasts among which they lived. But Severus was no indiscriminating adherent of monasticism. The same dialogue shows him to be alive to its dangers and defects.
The second dialogue is a large appendix to the Life of St Martin of Tours, and really supplies more information of his life as bishop and of his views than the work which bears the title Vita S Martini.
The two dialogues occasionally make interesting references to personages of the epoch.
About the author: Sulpicius Severus (c363 – c425) was a Christian writer and native of Aquitania in modern-day France. He is known for his chronicle of sacred history, as well as his biography of Saint Martin of Tours.
The above information is taken from Wikipedia.
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