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		Avienus was a Latin writer of the 4th century.
		Avienus also took a popular Greek poem in hexameters, Periegesis, briefly delimiting the habitable world from the perspective of Alexandria, written by Dionysius Periegetes in a terse and elegant style that was easy to memorize for Roman students, and translated it into an archaising Latin, as descriptio orbis terrae.
		The scholar Theodore Mommsen identified that author with Rufius Festus, proconsul of Achaea in 366, and both with Rufus Festus Avienus.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Avienus (750 words)

	Avienus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Avienus was a Latin writer of the 4th century.
		Avienus also took a popular Greek poem in hexameters, Periegesis, briefly delimiting the habitable world from the perspective of Alexandria, written by Dionysius Periegetis in a terse and elegant style that was easy to memorize for Roman students, and translated it into Latin, as Orbis terrarum descriptio.
		Others take him to be Festus of Tridentum, magister memoriae (secretary) to Valens and notoriously severe proconsul of the province of Asia, where he was sent to punish those implicated in the conspiracy of Theodorus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avienus (369 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Aratus
		Latin versions were made by none other than Cicero (fragmentary), the near-emperor Germanicus (mostly extant), and the less-famous Avienus (extant).
		Bust of Germanicus in the Louvre Germanicus Julius Caesar Claudianus, possibly Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus before adoption (15 BCâ€“AD October 10, 19) was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire.
		The New Testament, sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures, is the name given to the part of the Christian Bible that was written after the birth of Jesus.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Aratus (1554 words)

	Himilco, Phoenician Voyager to Northewestern Shores of Europe
		Avienus reports that the Tartessians -native iron age Andalusians- visited the Oestrumnidan isles to trade with the inhabitants; later, Carthaginian tradesmen traveled along the same route (Sea shore 113-115).
		Avienus offers several clues to locate the Oestrumnides: they were at two days' sailing distance from Ireland, and they were rich in the mining of tin and lead.
		Avienus does not mention a northern voyage, but this silence does not prove that Himilco did not visit the North sea - Avienus is interested in the Atlantic ocean, not in the neighboring seas.
	www.phoenicia.org /himilco.html (1337 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.04.29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In their detailed commentary (for obvious reasons, the Avienus section of the book is considerably longer than that dedicated to Germanicus), BC single out numerous points of interest.
		By contrast, Avienus' Iustitia, though still imagined as anthropomorphic, is largely an abstraction: to say that she is dwelling among human beings is but another way of saying that human beings are just.
		However, if Avienus' Iustitia is to be understood as an allegory of justice rather than as a goddess who even after her catasterism still cares for mortals, then her increased removal from the human sphere makes good sense.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-04-29.html (1954 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 433 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Assuming that the astronomical Avienus is the same with the geographical Avienus, we can at once determine approximately the age to which he belongs ; for Jerome, in his commentary on the Epistle of St. Paul to Titus, mentions that the quotation by the Apostle, in the xvii.
		Wernsdorf and others have at once pronounced without hesitation, that the Festus who here calls himself descendant of Musonius and son of Avienus, for such is undoubtedly the true meaning of the words, must be the same with our Rufus Festus Avienus.
		There is little to be said either for or against the idea, that he is the young Avienus introduced by Macrobius in the Saturnalia as talking with Sym-machus.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0442.html (722 words)

	Himilco
		Avienus reports that the Tartessians -native iron age Andalusians- visited the Oestrumnidan isles to trade with the inhabitants; later, Carthaginian tradesmen traveled along the same route (Sea shore 113-115).
		Moreover, Avienus states that the region beyond the Oestrumnides is the country of the Celts.
		Avienus does not mention a northern voyage, but this silence does not prove that Himilco did not visit the North sea - Avienus is interested in the Atlantic ocean, not in the neighboring seas.
	www.livius.org /hi-hn/himilco/himilco.htm (1249 words)

	Imago Mundi - Festus Avienus.
		Avienus (Rufus Festus) est avec Ausone, à qui il ressemble fort peu, le seul poète latin profane du IV e
		toute l'oeuvre de Virgile et toute l'histoire de Tite-Live (Avienus qui totum Vergilium et Livium iambis scripsit).
		Teuffel jugeait Avienus « un poète remarquablement doué ».
	www.cosmovisions.com /Avienus.htm (285 words)

	ophiussa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Roman geographer Rufus Festus Avienus, in "Ora Maritima",document from the 4th century, but inspired by ancient scriptures, one of which from the 6th century BC, documents "Oestriminis" (or the extreme west) and of the Oestrimni (a people that lived there from a long time).
		Avienus describes that the Oestrimni had to run away from their lands after an invasion of serpents.
		This could be a relation to, the Saephe or Ophis ("people of the serpents") and the Dragani ("people of the dragons") that came to that lands and formed what was known by the Greeks as Ophiussa.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /ophiussa.html (424 words)

	Avienus articles and news from Start Learning Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His editor A. Berthelot demonstrated that Avienus' land-measurements were derived from Itinerarium
		Tarragon and Barcelona, may characterize the method of Avienus, who searches archaic documents and mingles his searches of them with his impressions as an official of the fourth century A.D." (Barthelmy, Introduction).
		This Avienus is surely not identical with the Rufus (?) Festus who wrote, ''ca.'' 369, an epitome of Roman history in the genre called ''breviarium:''
	www.startlearningnow.com /Avienus.htm (755 words)

	Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters. Tr. O.M. Dalton (1915) pp. 1- 33; Book I
		Avienus would do all that in him lay for the advancement of his sons, or sons-in-law, or brothers, but was so absorbed in family candidates that his energy in the interest of outside aspirants was proportionately impaired.
		What Avienus could only obtain for his own connexions while in office, Basilius obtained for strangers while he was in a private station.
		Avienus opened his mind freely, and at' once, but little came of it; Basilius rarely and not for some time, but to the petitioner's advantage.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /fathers/sidonius_letters_01book1.htm (7417 words)

	Himilco - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A later author, the Roman aristocrat Avienus (c.350 AD; or almost nine centuries after Himilco!), quotes Himilco's narrative three times when he describes the Atlantic coast in his poem The sea shore.
		Moreover, Avienus states that the region beyond the Oestrumnides is the country of the Celts.
		In ancient literature, the word 'Celt' is never used to describe the inhabitants of the British isles; on the other hand, the people of modern France were often called Celtic, most famously in the opening lines of Julius Caesar's War in Gaul.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Himilco (1196 words)

	Volleintrag
		Avienus' version of Aratos' didatic poem 'Phainomena', written around AD 360, is notorious for ist difficulty.
		Reworking earlier didactic literature, Avienus extended or shortened the original versions as he pleased.
		Avienus has an individual approach to the use of epic formulae and literature sources.
	www.saur.de /catalog/01_browse/_detail_deep.cfm?id=0000011763 (105 words)

	Atlantis Resource and References Page Two
		Avienus basing himself on very ancient Phoenician sources, placed the Hesperides and the island of Geryon, Erytheia, "in the Ocean of the Atlanteans".
		Now, from Avienus' and other detailed descriptions, Erytheia lay in the Orient, in the Erythraean (or Indian Ocean), to which it gave its name.
		Saka-dvipa is also characterized by having "a golden lofty mountain whence the clouds arise that bring the rains" and another one "that produces all the herbs and medicinal drugs".
	www.tylwythteg.com /atlantis/southchina.html (16859 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Rufus Avienus Festus
		He made somewhat inexact translations into Latin of Aratus' didactic poem Phaenomena.
		Avienus also took a popular Greek poem in hexameters, Periegesis, briefly delimiting the habitable world from the perspective of Alexandria, written by Dionysius Periegetis in a terse and elegant style that was easy to memorize for Roman students, and translated it into Latin, as Orbis terrarum descriptio.
		369, an epitome of Roman history in the genre called breviaria: The scholar Theodore Mommsen identified that author with Rufius Festus, proconsul of Achaea in 366, and both with Rufus Festus Avienus.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Rufus_Avienus_Festus (509 words)

	Avienus
		Der Artikel Avienus gehört zur Kategorie: Autor, Antike (Literatur), Literatur (4.
		Postumius Rufius Festus Avienus war ein lateinischer Dichter des 4.
		Von Avienus sind die Werke Phaenomena (nach der Sternkunde des Aratos von Soloi), Descriptio orbis terrae (nach Dionysios Periegetes) und Ora maritima erhalten.
	www.weblexikon.de /Avienus.html (393 words)

	The Ligurians - Ancient Roman Empire Forums
		If you don't know anything about the 'Ora Maritima' (which I will review in another thread) apparently, Avienus meant for it to harken back into antiquity so his sources for discribing the Atlantic coast were ~1000 years old even in his time.
		That Avienus' sources would find similaity enough between people from these varying locals to call them all Ligurians speaks volumes as to how early in the 1st Millennia BC some of the accounts must have come from (i.e.
		In fact in one section Avienus even says that the Ligurians in the Alps had taken refuge in the mountains when the Celts arrived and that the ones he places in Hibernia-Albion (which we would know as the Picts) had fought so many wars with the Celts that they rarely came down from the hills.
	www.unrv.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=2550&pid=19143&mode=threaded&show=&st=& (1310 words)

	The Voyage of Hanno
		From Avienus and Pliny we learn that Hanno and his brother Himilko were sent from Carthage beyond the Pillars of Hercules to explore the extreme lands of the world, Himilko being expected to move to the north and Hanno to the south, circumnavigating Africa.
		Avienus refers to Himilco’s exploration of the northern regions: “The Carthaginian Himilco reports that the voyage can be made in less than four months, as he can testify by his own experience.”
		It is sophistry to argue that Avienus cannot be believed because there is no record of Himilko’s voyage, when nothing of the extensive literature of the Carthaginians has remained, and when Hanno’s report of a previous voyage has survived in a single manuscript.
	www.metrum.org /mapping/hanno.htm (8133 words)

	Chapter Invasion By Attila. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon
		This important commission was accepted by Avienus, who, from his birth and riches, his consular dignity, the numerous train of his clients, and his personal abilities, held the first rank in the Roman senate.
		The specious and artful character of Avienus was admirably qualified to conduct a negotiation either of public or private interest: his colleague Trigetius had exercised the Prætorian præfecture of Italy; and Leo, bishop of Rome, consented to expose his life for the safety of his flock.
		The genius of Leo was exercised and displayed in the public misfortunes; and he has deserved the appellation of Great, by the successful zeal with which he labored to establish his opinions and his authority, under the venerable names of orthodox faith and ecclesiastical discipline.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/62/109/25677/10.html (860 words)

	mi son si certi e prendon si mia fede. he came from and were a very joyful sight to Pitt and others (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While Caesar was in difficulty at Ruspinum, and was impatiently waiting for his legions from Sicily, there arrived a general officer of the 10th, named Caius Avienus, who had occupied the whole of one of the transports with his personal servants, horses, and other conveniences, and had not brought with him a single soldier.
		Avienus had been already privately noted by Caesar as having been connected with the mutiny in Campania.
		His own habits in the field were simple in the extreme, and he hated to see his officers self-indulgent.
	an-example-they.nemnogo-anekdotov.com /416.html (244 words)

	Preface Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This volume of Nevelet forms a complete "Corpus Fabularum Aesopicarum;" and to his labors Aesop owes his restoration to universal favor as one of the wise moralists and great teachers of mankind.
		At whatever time he wrote his version of Aesop, by some strange accident it seems to have entirely disappeared, and to have been lost sight of.
		His name is mentioned by Avienus; by Suidas, a celebrated critic, at the close of the eleventh century, who gives in his lexicon several isolated verses of his version of the fables; and by John Tzetzes, a grammarian and poet of Constantinople, who lived during the latter half of the twelfth century.
	www.freebooks.biz /Classics/Aesop/AesopC1P3.htm (753 words)

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		There is a lengthy look at Rufus Festus Avienus' (Proconsul Africa 366 CE) "Ora Maritima" which names the Celts.
		The poem is believed to be drawing here on early sources.
		Avienus names the late Fifth Century BCE Himilco as well as Phocaean outposts that probably vanished after 540 BCE.
	www.geocities.com /solarguard/celtic/celtcl.html (2908 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.06.31 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Freeman provides complete citations -- both in their original language and in English translation -- of all Classical material which might reasonably be interpreted to refer to Ireland and/or its inhabitants.
		Starting here is an interesting rhetorical choice, given that Avienus may or may not have been drawing on documents which pre-date the earliest verifiable Classical references to Ireland, and that the Ora maritima may or may not refer specifically to Ireland.
		Both here and in the ensuing discussion of Hellenistic geographers, Freeman is careful to caution against placing too much faith in necessarily speculative and tentative conclusions.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2002/2002-06-31.html (976 words)

	SAGRES - Promontorium Sacrum
		It is a fact, however, that this area has been written about since Antiquity.
		Avienus also states that the promontory was dedicated to the god Saturn and that "its rocks are frightening".
		During the pre-Roman and Roman period, the promontory at Sagres must have been an outdoor sanctuary dedicated to the Punic god Baal Hammom, associated by syncretic philosophy to the Latin Saturn.
	www.ippar.pt /sites_externos/sagres/Siteing/promonto.htm (423 words)

	h_a_05_eng
		We can still theorize that the Lusi (or Lysi) mentioned in Rufius Avienus' poem were the Lusitanians, and that the Cineti (identifiable with the Conii) had left only a trace in certain inscriptions before they had been absorbed by the Celtic group.
		There is now, apparently, a new ethnic geography in the western tip of the Peninsula.
		Other fact that one should have into account is the mention in Rufius Avienus' poem (that reports the adventures of a Greek sailor of the VI century B.C.), of a people called
	www.geocities.com /alex221166/h_a_05_eng.html (1872 words)

	Rufius Festus Avienus - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Rufius Festus Avienus - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Rufius Festus Avienus, a Roman aristocrat and poet, of Vulsinii in Etruria, who flourished during the second half of the 4th century AD.
		Avienus was a pagan and a staunch supporter of the old religion.
	www.music.us /education/R/Rufius-Festus-Avienus.htm (355 words)

	biology - Pytheas
		Trade between Gaul and Britain was already routine; fishermen and others would travel to the Orkneys, Iceland, Norway or Shetland.
		The Roman Avienus writing in the 4th century CE mentions an early Greek voyage, possibly from the 6th century BCE.
		A recent conjectural reconstruction of the journey Pytheas documented has him traveling from Marseille in succession to Bordeaux, Nantes, Land's End, Plymouth, Isle of Man, Outer Hebrides, Orkneys, Iceland, Britain's east coast, Kent, Helgoland, returning finally to Marseille.
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/Pytheas (875 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Leo I (The Great)
		When Northern Italy had been devastated by Attila, Leo by a personal encounter with the King of the Huns prevented him from marching upon Rome.
		At the emperor's wish, Leo, accompanied by the Consul Avienus and the Prefect Trigetius, went in 452 to Upper Italy, and met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of
		Mantua, obtaining from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the emperor.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09154b.htm (2752 words)

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