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	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 Periegetes in a terse and elegant style that was easy to memorize for Roman students, and translated it into 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avienus (574 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 673 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		RUFUS, FAE'NIUS or FE'NIUS, was appointed by Nero praefectus annonae in a.
		But Rufus never obtained much influence with the emperor, and all the real power was in the hands of his colleague Tigellinus, whose depraved mind was more akin to Nero's own.
		RUFUS, GEMI'NIUS, was accused of the crime of majestas towards the end of a.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3007.html (825 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 675 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rufus, however, in his work on Cato, gave a different account of their quarrel.
		RUFUS, C. MUSO'NIUS, a celebrated Stoic philosopher in the first century of the Christian era, was the son of a Roman eques of the name of Capito, and was born at Volsinii in Etraria, either at the end of the reign of Augustus, or the beginning of that of Tiberius.
		In consequence of his practising and inculcating the principles of the Porch, he became an object of suspicion and dislike at Nero's court, and was accordingly banished to the island of Gyaros, in A. d.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3009.html (786 words)

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		The reference to the defeat of the Goths at Noviodunum (A.D. 369) by the emperor Valens, and the fact that the author is unaware of the constitution of Valentia as a province (which took place in the same year) are sufficient indication to fix the date of composition.
		Mommsen identifies the author with Rufius Festus, proconsul of Achaea (366), and both with Rufius Festus Avienus (q.v.), the translator of Aratus.
		Others take him to be Festus of Tridentum, magister memoriae (secretary) to Valens and proconsul of Asia, where he was sent to punish those implicated in the conspiracy of Theodorus, a commission which he executed with such merciless severity that his name became a byword.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=24997 (267 words)

	Ophiussa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.encyclopedia-online.info /Ophiussa (388 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 (1431 words)

	Dionysius Periegetes - LoveToKnow 1911
		Nothing certain is known of the date or nationality of the writer, but there is some reason for believing that he was an Alexandrian, who wrote in the time of Hadrian (some put him as late as the end of the 3rd century).
		The work enjoyed a high degree of popularity in ancient times as a school-book; it was translated into Latin by Rufus Festus Avienus, and by the grammarian Priscian.
		The best editions are by G. Bernhardy (1828) and C. Muller (1861) in their Geographici Graeci minores; see also E. Bunbury, Ancient Geography (ii.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Dionysius_Periegetes (167 words)

	FESTUS (? RuFUS or RUF... - Online Information article about FESTUS (? RuFUS or RUF...
		Valens, and the fact that the author is unaware of the constitution of See also:
		Mommsen identifies the author with Rufius Festus, proconsul of See also:
		Others take him to be Festus of Tridentum, magister memoriae (secretary) to Valens and proconsul of See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FAT_FLA/FESTUS_RuFUS_or_RUFIUS_.html (309 words)

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		The word Cothon, we are informed by Festus, (and his etymology is confirmed by Bochart and Buxtorf,) signifies, in the oriental languages, a port not formed by nature, but the result of labour and art.
		According to the account of Festus, the voyage of Himilco lasted four months, or rather he sailed for the space of four months, towards the north, and arrived at the isles Ostrymnides and the coast of Albion.
		In the extracts given by Avienus from the journal of Himilco, frequent mention is made of lead and tin, and of ships cased with leather (or, more probably, entirely made of that material, like the coracles still used by the Greenlanders, and even in Wales, for crossing small rivers).
	www.gutenberg.org /files/13606/13606-8.txt (14835 words)

	BOOK 13
		Unfortunately the peace of the Church was again disturbed after a short time, so that in Rome, towards the end of the year 499, and in the year 500, both parties came to violent and even to sanguinary conflicts.
		In this matter the friends of Lawrence peculiarly distinguished themselves by acts of violence; and at their head stood two laymen of exalted position, the Senators Festus and Probus (or Probinus), as well as the Deacon Paschasius, who from his asceticism had a reputation for holiness among the people.
		At the very beginning the memorial of Ennodius, already mentioned, was publicly read, universally approved, and its preservation and introduction into the Acts of the Synod between the minutes of the fourth and fifth assemblies ordered, with which Symmachus entirely agreed.
	www.godrules.net /library/hefele/84hefele_d3.htm (11067 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.06.31
		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)

	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&mode=threaded (829 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Curtius Rufus, during the Claudian principate, finished a history of Alexander the Great.
		Aurelius Victor, Eutropius and Festus all made contributions; Aurelius Victor offered an examination of the Caesars and an Epitome down to Theodosius I; Eutropius chose a far more ambitious subject, the entire span of Roman history in only 10 books, the Breviarum ab urbe condita.
		In poetry, Avienus translated Aratus' Phaenomena and Dionysios' Periegesis or Descriptions of the Earth.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=ROME0933 (2211 words)

	Navigation by Polaris: from c.1100 BC - www.ezboard.com
		Another fascinating feat of navigation that Barry Cunliffe mentions is the voyage of a certain Himilco of Carthage (he estimates somewhere around the end of the 5th century B.C.) who sailed out into the Atlantic and later asserted that it could scarcely be crossed in four months.
		His tale is found in a late Roman poem "Ora Maritima" by Rufus Festus Avienus.
		Although it is not known exactly where he went, Himilco describes a place where no breezes propel a craft; mists, shoals, monsters, and masses of seaweed so thick the prow of the boat is held back.
	p220.ezboard.com /fhistoryworldfrm10.showMessage?topicID=63.topic (1073 words)

	Ireland not the Hibernia of the Ancients
		Rufus Festus, or Festus Rufus Avienus, a writer of the fourth century, in his poetical description of the world; relying on the information of Hamilcar, a Cartliaginian trader, speaks of the plains of the Britons, distant Thule, the sacred isle peopled by the nation of the Hiberni, and the adjacent island of the Albiones.
		It is weil known that the first inhabitants of Iceland were learned Christians ; and there is no satisfactory evidence to prove that Ireland was Christianised, even at a much later period than the time of Avienus.
		The sacred isle of this writer can thus be no other country than Iceland, for he speaks of the island of the Albiones or Scotland, and distinguishes it from the sacred isle.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/early6-3.htm (4315 words)

	tin-islands.e
		Plinius the Older and Avienus tell from a scouting tour of the Karthagaean Himilkon, that took place about 480 B.C. Both are using for that a Greek translation of the report which escaped the destruction of all cultural products by the Romans in the library of the king of Mauretania.
		Data about the density of population of the islands, that were archaeologically confirmed, can be a proof, that he was really there.
		Otherwise the report of Avienus is more paltrey.
	www.tolos.de /tin-islands.e.htm (2598 words)

	7thSquare Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rufus Festus Avienus A Latin poet who wrote on geographical and astronomical subjects in the 4th century A.D. To him are ascribed (1) Descript...
		Joanna Baillie Scottish dramatist and poet, born at Bothwell, Lanarkshire.
		Rufus Quintus Curtis A Roman historian of Alexander the Great; he lived probably in the 1st or 2nd century A.D. His history consisted originally o...
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	briteng
		Bardus in the Gauls tongue signifieth a songster; Festus Pompeius is mine author, and this is a meer British word.
		As the Gauls by pymp meant the number of five, so by petor, foure, as we learne out of Festus, who sheweth that petoritum was a chariot or wagon of the Gaules, so called of foure wheeles, and this word pedwar in the British tongue signifieth foure.
		And if any one that is skilfull in the old British tongue would examine the rest of British names, which in the ancient Writers are not past foure or five more in all, wee may well suppose that he shall find in those names, as few as they be, some signification of a colour.
	www.philological.bham.ac.uk /cambrit/briteng.html (13321 words)

	The Ligurians - Ancient Roman Empire Forums
		Anyway, last night I jumped ahead and looked at his treatment on Avienus' poem to see if he may have commented on the curious use of the Ligurians and luckily he did!
		However, his assumtion is fundamentally the same as mine and begins his mention of Avienus' use of Ligurians as such:
		Forgiving this, the following paragraphs still have merit as he still makes his point that Avienus' was using Pytheas' report from over a millennium earlier.
	www.unrv.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=2550&mode=threaded (2880 words)

	PROPOSAL
		Festus Rufus Avienus, a Greek historian in the early 6
		Strabo, Geographie, quoted in Barry Raftery, Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age (London: Thames and Hudson, 1994) 200.
		Festus Rufus Avienus, Ora maritima, quoted in Thomas Cahill, How the Irish saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (New York: Nan A. Talese, 1995), 79-80.
	home.olemiss.edu /~annek/libsci/PROPOSAL.htm (7135 words)

	Andrew Collins Questing Conference 1999
		All the indications are that they were either Phoenicians using Spanish ports such as Gades or Tartessos or Carthaginians out of the port of Carthage on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, Mogador on the Atlantic coast of Morocco and Cerne Island, an unidentified Atlantic island off the coast of West Africa.
		An account of a journey into the Western Ocean by a fifth-century BC Carthaginian sea-captain and general named Himilco recorded by Rufus Festus Avienus in the third-century speaks of his vessel encountering a vast expanse of seaweed, calm seas and mud shoals.
		Apparently, it could not be crossed in four months.
	www.andrewcollins.com /page/conference/qc99/andrewcollins.htm (1585 words)

	Systematik des Bandrealkataloges
		Quintus Curtius Rufus Sign.: AUCT LAT # 2.2.83.1.
		Sextus Rufus : Breviarium de Victoriis et Provinciis Populi Romani Sign.: AUCT LAT V, 5704-a-5740 # 2.2.116.
		Rufus Festus Avienus Sign.: AUCT LAT # 2.2.116.1.
	www.gwdg.de /~sub/ebene_1/sys_band/3_syacla.htm (8037 words)

	Ancient Ireland - Prehistory, Archaeology, Paleogeography, Geology
		Ptolemy produced the first map (of Hibernia) with identifiable features about the middle of the 2nd century AD.
		In his Ora Maritima (4th century AD), based on a Greek original of the early 6th century BC, Festus Rufus Avienus refers to Ireland as Insula sacra (holy island) and to the inhabitants as gens hiernorum.
		The modern country's name of Éire (Gaeilge for Ireland) is thought to be derived, among others, from an early tribal group of Ireland referred to as the Érainn (aka Iverni).
	www.rootsweb.com /~irlkik/ihm/neolithic.htm (2232 words)

	e-Keltoi: Volume 6, Celtic Elements in Northwestern Spain in Pre-Roman times, by Marco V. García Quintela
		Later on, Ptolemy continued the association of geographical locations with astronomic references begun in the Hellenic period; his work consists of lists of place names with their geographical coordinates, and is therefore of limited interest to us here.
		We will also leave aside the problematic testimony of the late-appearing Ora Marítima by Rufus Festus Avienus.
		Strabo was a Greek geographer from Asia Minor and a contemporary of the Emperor Augustus, who supported what we today call human geography, as opposed to the geography based on mathematical and astronomical foundations imposed by Hellenistic Alexandria.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/celtic/ekeltoi/volumes/vol6/6_10/garcia_quintela_6_10.html (16937 words)

	Books - "RUFUS" - Prices and Reviews at DealTime.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A Black Educator in the Segregated South: Kentucky's Rufus B. Atwood
		Relevant Accounting Concepts and Applications: The Writings and Contributions of C. Rufus Rorem
		Diary of a Man Heart of a Woman
	www.dealtime.co.uk /xPP-Books-RUFUS~PG-3 (89 words)

	RNDnet's Ancient Rome - The Rulers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Flavius THEODOSIUS II Aug. (E) - Flavius Rufius Postumius Festus (W) 440 Flavius Anatolius - Imp.
		Maecilius Flavius Eparchius AVITUS Aug.(W) 457 Flavius Constantius (E) - Flavius Rufus (E) 458 Imp.
		Rufius Magnus Faustus Avienus (W) 502 Flavius Probus (E) - Rufius Magnus Faustus Avienus jr.
	rome.rndnet.org /rulers/consuls6.htm (855 words)

	Prime or Primary: sources (to about A.D.800) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		However, in a discussion on early trade with Britain, on 27 Apr 2001, she wrote "Ack, I don't know when a trade began, but I have read Ora Maritima written after Christ but the oldest complete copy of an poem written in 3rd Century BC is included".
		Sure enough, Ora Maritima written c380 AD by Rufus Festus Avienus does contain what seems to be information about early trade with Britain ("insula Albionum") from a source several hundred years earlier.
		To add further confusion, Inger has stated explicitly, on 16 Jan 2005, in response to a reference to "Ora Maritima" as a source for information on trade from "Albion" c500BC, that "Alan wasn't correct - it's a poem written down 275 BC about a trade that had been going on for centuries.
	www.trochos.plus.com /primesauce/earlier.htm (4377 words)

	Shoreham: Toponymy
		Origin of place names of Bognor and Pershore, but there is not 100% agreement on the meaning of õra.
		The earliest reference I can find to õra is a document called "Ora Maritima" by Festus Rufus Avienus dated 366 AD.
		Popular place-name books usually give the meaning for Shoreham as
	www.glaucus.org.uk /Toponymy.htm (2660 words)

	References
		Berthelot, R., ed., 1934 Festus Avienus Ora maritima: Paris
		Festus, Sextus Pompeius On the meaning of words (abridgment of lost glossary of M. Verrius Flaccus, fl.
		1977 Ora maritima: Chicago, Ares LatinRufus Festus Avienus*
	www.d.umn.edu /~ahartley/Medlex_references.html (9208 words)

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