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A rhetorician born in Spain and distinguished as a general, and also as a Latin poet, in the first half of the 5th century after Christ. Besides a short hymn, De Christo, there are preserved fragments of five secular poems, the longest being part of a panegyric on the third consulate of Aetius (446), with a preface in prose. They prove him to be no unskilful imitator of Claudian; in language and metre he possesses an elegance rare in his time. |
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