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Avianus or Avienus (the MSS give both forms), Roman fabulist (fl. c. 400 ce). He dedicated his 42 fables in elegiacs to one Theodosius, who is commonly held to be *Macrobius (Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius); it is possible (though not more) that he is the Avienus who appears in the latter's Saturnalia (who is certainly not the geographical ...
Avianus (or possibly Avienus; [1] c. AD 400) a Latin writer of fables, [2] identified as a Greco-Roman Polytheist. [3] The 42 fables which bear his name are dedicated to a certain Theodosius, whose learning is spoken of in most flattering terms.
Introduction. Avianus lived in the second century and wrote in classical Latin and in correct metre, while schoolmasters, rhetoricians, interpolators and copyists are responsible for the depravations.
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This paper provides an account of the little-read late Latin fables of Avianus, and argues that their imagery reflects contemporary representations of criminal punishment.
MACROBIUS, AVIENUS, AND AVIANUS I. THE DATE OF AVIANUS DESPITE Lachmann's attempt to place them in the second century, it is now generally agreed that the Fables of Avianus cannot have been written before the late fourth or early fifth century. The linguistic and metrical evidence is decisive.
Avianus here refers to apologues in fable style: e.g. of Grasshoppers, Phaedr. 259; of Plenty and Poverty, Symp. 203; of Prometheus and Epimetheus, Protag. 320–321. d e.g. the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse in Sat. II. vi.
