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[German version] I. General Literary communication is commun…

[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…

[German version] In the 6th cent. AD, he probably arranged (in Africa or Rome) a systematic collection ( Concordia canonum) of synodal laws ( Canones) and papal decisions ( Decretales), based on the collection of  Dionysius Exiguus. An extended version with the inclusion of texts from Gaul exists from the Carolingian period (so-called Gaulic Cresconius). Gruber, Joachim (Munich) Bibliography Edition: PL 88, 829-942 (critical ed. is missing) Bibliography: H. Mordek, s.v. C., LMA 3, 345f.

[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 …

[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, cos. ord. and praefectus urbi in AD 282 (Chron. Min. 1,66 Mommsen). Franke, Thomas (Bochum) Bibliography Birley, 180 f.  PIR2 P 762  PLRE 1, 962, nr. 3 and 963, nr. 2. [German version] [2] Imp. Caesar M. Piavonius V. Invictus Augustus Emperor of Imperium Galliarum from the end of AD 269 to the spring of 271 (RIC 5,2, 379-398; CIL XIII 9040), son of Victoria, from rich Gaulish nobility (Aur. Vict. Caes. 33,14). In 265/6 …

[German version] A Latin text, appended in the 6th cent. to the so-called Gospel of Nicodemus ( Acta Pilati, see New Testament Apocrypha), whose narrative sections can be traced by way of Rufinus [6] and Eusebius [7] to Iosephus [4] Flavius. It is about Jesus appearing in a dream to the emperor Nero and announcing to…

[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), he opposed acceptance of the Christology of  Cyrillus of Alexandria. Savvidis, Kyriakos (Bochum) Bibliography F. Diekamp, Analecta Patristica, 1938, 54-72 (73-108). [German version] [2] Priest in Marseilles, 5th cent. AD Priest in Marseilles associated with the Semipelagians, who died between 492 and 505. Complementary to  Hieronymus' De viris illustribus, he compiled under the same title a catalogue of Christian authors, providing reliable information on Christian literature of the 5th cent.; beginning with Cassiodorus (Inst. 1,17,2), both works were transmitted together. G. is also seen as the author of the theological tractates …

[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 Atheni…

[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 records about him. Gruber, Joachim (Munich) Bibliography Editions: A. Goldbacher, CSE…

[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 …

Name of a widely-branched Roman plebeian family who became well known from the beginning of the 2nd cent. BC on, but only achieved the consulate for the first time at the end of the cent.…

[German version] Fifth bishop of the city, correspondent of  Sidonius (Epist. 7,10, pre 475). In the epistle to  Arbogastes, comes in Trier, A. praises him for his lineage and noble attitude and warns him of the omnipresent problem of greed. The poetically simple composition (164 iambic dimeters) is an early example of rhythmic hymn stanzas in which the dominating aspect is the accent placed on the words. Gruber, Joachim (Munich) Bibliography Edition: MGH PL 4,2, 1914, 614. Bibliography: …

[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. Gruber, Joachim (Munich) Bibliography Editions: 1 F. Hultsch, Metrologicorum scr…

(Εὐσέβιος; Eusébios). [German version] [1] Flavius Eusebius Consul AD 347 Mention is made in the statute Cod. Theod. 11,1,1 of AD 360 of the former cos. et mag. equitum et peditum Eusebius. This probably refers to cos. E. of 347, who may perhaps be identified as the father of the empress Eusebia [1] (cf. Julian Or. 3,107d-110d). PLRE 1, 307f. Eusebius (39). Portmann, Werner (Berlin) [German version] [2] E…

[German version] [1] see Historia Augusta see Historia Augusta Gruber, Joachim (Munich) [German version] [2] Poet and teacher of rhetoric in Burdigala, 5th cent. AD Poet and teacher of rhetoric in Burdigala (Bordeaux), a friend of Sidonius Apollinaris who is the only source of information about him: Sid. Apoll. Epist. 8,9 is addressed to L. Around AD 460 he was invited to Arles by the emperor Maiorianus (ibid. 9,13,4); he was murdered soon after 475 (8,11,3).…