Editing Salvian (section)

==Later work==
Salvian continued his friendly intercourse with both father and sons long after the latter had left his care; it was to [[Salonius]] (then a bishop) that he wrote his explanatory letter just after the publication of his treatise ''Ad ecclesiam''; and to the same prelate a few years later he dedicated his great work, the ''De gubernatione Dei'' ("The Government of God"). If French scholars are right in assigning Hilary's ''Vita Honorati'' to 430, Salvian, who is there called a priest, had probably already left [[Lyon]]s for [[Marseille]], where he is known to have spent the last years of his life ([[Gennadius of Massilia|Gennadius]], ap. Migne, lviii. 1099). It was probably from Marseille that he wrote his first letter — presumably to Lerins — begging the community there to receive his kinsman, the son of a widow of Cologne, who had been reduced to poverty by the barbarian invasions. It seems a fair inference that Salvian had divested himself of all his property in favour of that society and sent his relative to Lerins for assistance (''Ep.'' i., with which compare ''Ad eccles.'' ii. 9, 10; iii. 5). It has been conjectured that Salvian paid a visit to [[Carthage]]; but this is a mere inference based on the minute details he gives of the state of this city just before its fall to the [[Vandals]] (''De gub.'' vii. viii). He seems to have been still living at Marseille when [[Gennadius of Massilia|Gennadius]] wrote under the [[pope|papacy]] of [[Pope Gelasius I|Gelasius]] (492–496).<ref name=EB1911/>