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[German version] Born in AD 473-74, probably in Arles, derived from Gaulish aristocracy. Raised in Pavia according to his rank, he entered into the service of the Church in 493 and became bishop of Pavia in 513. In 515 and 517, he was in Constantinople on behalf of Pope Hormisdas for the settlement of the Acacian schism and died in 521 (epitaph CIL VI 16464). His c. 500 writings, among them 297 letters in the manner of  Symmachus, were written before his tenure as bishop and were preserved in the manuscripts in approximately chronological order. Their affected and therefore often difficult to understand language is in keeping with the style cultivated by the Roman nobility under Theoderi…

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[German version] Probably identical with the rhetor Severus Sanctus E. who taught in Rome in AD 395, was of Gallic origin and friends with  Paulinus of Nola. About 400 he composed a bucolic Christian poem ( Bucolics) in 33 stanzas (i.e. the number of years of Christ's life), each of three asclepiads and one glyconeus: Bucolus reports to Aegon the loss of his flock due to a cattle disease while Christ points out to Tityrus that his flock was preserved by the power of the cross. Thereupon, the other two convert to Christianity. Gruber, Joachim (Munich) Bibliography Edition: D. Korzeniewski, H…

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[German version] from Thagaste, son of Romanianus, a patron of Augustinus, probably accompanied him to Carthage and Rome. He is involved in the debate in the latter's dialogue Contra Academicos. A poem in 154 hexameters is extant in which L. asks Augustine for sending his work De musica, since he expects to get help for reading Varro's Disciplinae. After AD 395 there are no longer any r…

[German version] Fifth bishop of the city, correspondent of  Sidonius (Epist. 7,10, pre 475). In the epistle to  Arbogastes, comes in Trie…

[German version] Anonymous Latin poem, dated between the end of the 4th and beginning of the 6th cent. AD, and dedicated to a Symmachus, perhaps the father-in-law of  Boethius; it is a skilfully formed and clearly structured didactic poem ( Didactic poetry) in 208 hexameters about weights and measures, the procedure for ascertaining the specific weight of fluids as well as the relative proportions of metals, especially of gold-silver alloys.…

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[German version] [1] Governor of Britannia Superior, 3rd cent. AD V. was governor of the province of Britannia Superior (Zos. 1,66,2; Zon. 12,29 D.) and may be identical with Pomponius Victori(a)nus, …

[German version] [1] Patriarch of Constantinople 5th cent. AD (Γεννάδιος, Gennádios) Patriarch of  Constantinople AD 458-471. As an advocate at the Council of  Calchedon (451),…

[German version] A. Life Son of the consul for 487, B. was born around 480. After his father's early death he was adopted into the household of  Symmachus, whose daughter, Rusticiana, he married. Given an excellent education, he was as familiar with the writings of Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonists, especially Porphyry and the Athenian School, as with Augustine, and he soon acquired a reputation as a scholar. In 510 he became consul sine collega, and in 522 his two sons, not fully grown-up, obtained the consulate. Probably in the same year he became magister officiorum, but evidently had only little backing at court. He was thus drawn into the trial of Albinus for high treason; a trial in which the tensions between a pro-Byzantine party in the Senate bent on church union and the east Gothic court in Ravenna reached a climax after the sudden death of the designated successor to the throne,  Eutharich. His involvement on behalf of Albinus and the Senate led to his arrest in Pavia; he was charged with …

[German version] [1] Military tribune in the army of Vespasianus in Iudaea Military tribune in the army of Vespasianus in Iudaea. in AD 67, following the conquest of Iotapata, he was instructed to convince Iosephus [4], the leader of the Jewish army, to surrender to Vespasianus, but proved unsuccessful (Jos. BI 3, 344f.). Eck, Werner (Cologne) [German version] [2] Curator aedium sacrarum in AD 214 Senator. Curator ae…

(Εὐσέβιος; Eusébios). [German version] …

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[German version] I. General Literary communication is communication by means of texts - stabilized, coherent and substantial statements. These may be written or eventually put down in writing, but they may also remain oral ( Literacy). Since for earlier societies as a rule only written texts can be studied, the term ‘literature’ focusses on such sedimented media of literary communication. Nevertheless, particularly for ancient societies the mainly oral character of literary communication must be emp…