Vibius Sequester (active in the 4th or 5th century AD) is the Latin author of lists of geographical names.

Work

''De fluminibus, fontibus, lacubus, nemoribus, gentibus, quorum apud poëtas mentio fit'' is made up of seven alphabetical lists of geographical names mentioned by poets, especially

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and Lucan. Several of the names do not appear in our copies of the poets; unless this is the result of carelessness or ignorance by the compiler, he must have had access to sources no longer extant. The lists are: # ''Flumina'' (rivers/waterways) # ''Fontes'' (springs) # ''Lacus'' (lakes) # ''Nemora'' (forests) # ''Paludes'' (marshes) # ''Montes'' (mountains) # ''Gentes'' (peoples) The work was mainly copied by Italian humanists in the second half of the 9th century. The work is best known for preserving a dactylic pentameter line quoted from Cornelius Gallus, ''uno tellures dividit amne duas'' (" Scythian Hypanis">Southern_Bug.html" ;"title="he Southern Bug">Scythian Hypaniswith its one stream divides two lands"),Vibius Sequester, ''De fluminibus fontibus lacubus nemoribus paludibus montibus gentibus per litteras'', in Alexander Riese, ed. (1878), ''Geographi Latini Minores''
p. 148
"Hypanis Scythiae qui, ut ait Gallus 'uno tellures dividit amne duas': Asiam enim ab Europa separat." ("The Scythian Hypanis which, as Gallus says, 'with its one stream divides two lands': that is, it separates Asia from Europe.") which was the only known fragment of Gallus's poetry before the discovery in 1978 of several additional lines by him on an Egyptian papyrus.

Editions

* Older editions include those published in Toulouse (1615); Rotterdam (1711); Paris (1843), and, by Conrad Bursian, Zürich (1867). The text is also in Alexander Riese's ''Geographi Latini minores'' (1878). See also Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, Teuffel, ''History of Roman Literature'' (Eng. trans., 1900), 445, 1. * Newer editions include the Teubner edited by R. Gelsomino (1967) and the edition of P.G. Parroni (Milan, 1965). * Online: * Online: p. 145-159 of Alexander Riese, ed. (1878), ''Geographi Latini Minores'',

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References

* Pier Angelo Perotti, "Note a Vibio Sequestre," ''Giornale italiano di filologia'' 56 (2004) 87–99. 4th-century Romans 5th-century Romans 4th-century writers in Latin 5th-century writers in Latin Vibii 4th-century geographers 5th-century geographers {{AncientRome-writer-stub