Avienus (other)
Avienus may refer to: *Gennadius Avienus (fl. 450–460s), Roman politician *Avienus (consul 501), Roman politician *Rufius Magnus Faustus Avienus (consul 502), Roman politician See also * Aviena gens, ancient Roman family *Avianus, also spelled Avienus *Avienius Postumius Rufius Festus Avienius (sometimes erroneously Avienus) was a Latin writer of the 4th century AD. He was a native of Volsinii in Etruria, from the distinguished family of the Rufii Festi. Avienius is not identical with the historian Fe ...

Gennadius Avienus
Gennadius Avienus ( 450–460s) was an influential politician of the Western Roman Empire. He was consul in 450, alongside Valentinian III. In 452, he was an envoy to Attila; together with Pope Leo I and Trigetius he successfully negotiated a truce. He had a son and a daughter; his son would go on to be consul in 490. Biography Avienus was member of an ancient and noble Roman family, which traced back its origins to the consul of year 59, Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus. Avienus was the father of Anicius Probus Faustus, Consul in 490, and of a daughter called Stephania, whose son, Rufius Magnus Faustus Avienus, received the name of his grandfather and was Consul in 502. Avienus was chosen as Consul for the year 450, together with Emperor Valentinian III. Two years later, in 452, he was sent by Valentinian and the Roman Senate as envoy to the King of the Huns, Attila, together with Trigetius and the Bishop of Rome, Leo I; they succeeded in negotiating a truce with Atti ...
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Avienus (consul 501)
Flavius Avienus ( 501–509) was a Roman politician during the reign of Theodoric the Great. He held the consulship with Pompeius as colleague in 501. He probably belonged to the '' gens Decia''; he was the son of Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius (consul in 480), and brother of Albinus (consul in 493), Theodorus (consul in 505) and Inportunus (consul in 509). John Moorhead argues that the brothers were on different sides of the Laurentian schism, with Albinus and Avienus supporting Symmachus and Theodore and Inportunus supporting Laurentius. He was a correspondent of Magnus Felix Ennodius; one letter by Ennodius to Avienus has been preserved.Ennodius, ''Epistulae'', III.8. By 507/509, Avienus and his brother Albinus had already become ''patricii''; around this time, but after the death of their father, they were asked to become patrons of the Greens and to appoint a pantomime. Notes Further reading * Martindale, John R., "Fl. Avienus iunior 3", ''Prosopography of the ...
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Rufius Magnus Faustus Avienus
Rufius Magnus Faustus Avienus was a politician of the Western Roman Empire. He was appointed consul for 502 with Flavius Probus as his colleague. His father was Anicius Probus Faustus, who was the leading supporter of Pope Symmachus in the Laurentian schism, and his brother was Ennodius Messala, one of the consuls for 506.Jeffrey Richards, ''The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages'' (London:Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979), p. 79 Avienus was later Praetorian prefect of Italy The praetorian prefecture of Italy ( la, Praefectura praetorio Italiae, in its full form (until 356) ) was one of four praetorian prefectures into which the Late Roman Empire was divided. It comprised the Italian peninsula, the Western Balkans, ... (527–528). References 6th-century Italo-Roman people 6th-century Roman consuls Imperial Roman consuls Praetorian prefects of Italy {{AncientRome-politician-stub ...
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Aviena Gens
The gens Aviena, occasionally written Avienia, was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Hardly any members of this gens are mentioned in history, but a number of Avieni are known from inscriptions. Origin The nomen ''Avienus'' belongs to a class of names formed using the suffix ''-enus'', typically derived from other . There was a gens ''Avia'', also known primarily from inscriptions, derived from , grandfather. Praenomina The main praenomina of the Avieni were ''Sextus'' and ''Titus'', with a few other names receiving occasional use, including ''Gaius'', '' Publius'', and ''Quintus''. All of these were very common throughout Roman history. One family of the Avieni at Ostia used ''Sextus'' alone, and were differentiated by their cognomina, a phenomenon sometimes referred to as the "fossilization" of a praenomen, which became common in imperial times. Branches and cognomina The Avieni do not appear to have been divided into distinct stirpes, or branches, identified by ...
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Avianus
Avianus (or possibly Avienus;Alan Cameron, "Avienus or Avienius?", ''ZPE'' 108 (1995), p. 260 c. AD 400) a Latin writer of fables,"Avianus" in ''Chambers's Encyclopædia''. London: George Newnes, 1961, Vol. 2, p. 5. identified as a pagan. The 42 fables which bear his name are dedicated to a certain Theodosius, whose learning is spoken of in most flattering terms. He may possibly be Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, the author of ''Saturnalia''; some think he may be the emperor of that name. Nearly all the fables are to be found in Babrius, who was probably Avianus's source of inspiration, but as Babrius wrote in Greek, and Avianus speaks of having made an elegiac version from a rough Latin copy, probably a prose paraphrase, he was not indebted to the original. The language and metre are on the whole correct, in spite of deviations from classical usage, chiefly in the management of the pentameter. The fables soon became popular as a school-book. ''Promythia and epimythia'' (introduc ...
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