Almost all that can be said about Aponius (often Apponius) comes from the voluminous commentary on the Song of Songs that bears his name. The editors of the 1986 critical edition (B. de Vregille & L. Neyrand) argued for a dating in the first decade of the 5th century CE and the location as most likely northern Italy. By the time of their annotated translation some two decades later, they had revised their estimate of its dating between 420 and 430 CE. One reason for this was that the author knew Augustine of Hippo's City of God – yet it has to be s…