Avienius

Not to be confused with Avienus or Avianus.

Postumius Rufius Festus Avienius[1][2][3] (sometimes erroneously Avienus) was a Latin writer of the 4th century AD. He was a native of Volsinii in Etruria,[4] from the distinguished family of the Rufii Festi.[5]

Avienius is not identical with the historian Festus.[6]

  1. ^ Cameron, Alan (1995). "Avienus or Avienius?" (PDF). Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 108: 252–262. JSTOR 20189613.
  2. ^ Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire vol. 1 p. 336
  3. ^ Rita Lizzi Testa, Senatori, popolo, papi: il governo di Roma al tempo dei Valentiniani (Bari, 2004), p. 274
  4. ^ Dolan, Marion (22 August 2017). Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts. Springer. p. 34. ISBN 9783319567846.
  5. ^ Matthews, John (September 1967). "Continuity in a Roman Family; The Rufii Festi of Volsinii". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 16 (4). Franz Steiner Verlag: 484–509. JSTOR 4435006.
  6. ^ Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, "Avienius", p. 187