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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS<br />

STUDIES: H. Lewy, 'A Latin hymn to the creator ascribed to Plato', H.Tk.R. 31<br />

(1946) 243—88; E. R. Curtius, European literature <strong>and</strong> the Latin middle ages, tr, W. R.<br />

Trask (London 1953) 196—200.<br />

[LACTANTIUS], DE AVE PHOENICE<br />

TEXT: PLM ill 247-62; Anth. Lat. 731.<br />

IUVENCUS, GAIUS VETTIUS AQUILINUS<br />

LIFE AND WORKS<br />

Spanish priest, fl. under Constantine. Evangeliorum libri IV: hexameter narrative of<br />

the gospel story. Sources: Jerome, Chron. A.D. 328, De vir. ill. 84; Juvencus 4.805.<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />

TEXT: J. Huemer, CSEL xxiv (Vienna 1891).<br />

STUDIES: C. Wegman, 'Zu Iuvencus', Beitrage %ur Geschichte der christlichlateiniscken<br />

Poesie (Munich 1926) 21—8; U. Moricca, Studi di letteratura latino, cristiana<br />

II.2 (Turin 1928) 831/?.; H. H. Kievits, Ad Iuvenci evangeliorum librum primum cotnmentarius<br />

exegeticus (Groningen 1940); j. de Wit, Ad Iuvenci evangeliorum librum<br />

secundum commentarius exegeticus (Groningen 1947); N. Hannson, Textkritische \u<br />

Iuvencus, mit vollst<strong>and</strong>igem Index verborum (Lund 1950); R. Herzog, Die Bibelepik. der<br />

lateinischen Spdtantike I (Munich 1972) esp. 52-98.<br />

AVIENIUS, POSTUMIUS RUFIUS FESTUS<br />

4th c. A.D. from Volsinii in Etruria.<br />

LIFE<br />

WORKS<br />

Descriptio orbis terrae: geography in hexameters based on Greek original by Dionysius<br />

Periegetes. Ora maritima: description in iambics of western <strong>and</strong> southern coasts of<br />

Europe (see 5iff.), written after Descriptio (Ora mar. 71); section on coast from<br />

Marseilles to Cadiz alone survives. Aratea, Phaenomena <strong>and</strong> Prognostica: exp<strong>and</strong>ed<br />

hexameter translations of Aratus. Sources: CIL vi 537 (= ILS 2944); IG m 635;<br />

inscription from Bulk Regia (PLREl 336); Jerome, In ep. ad Tit. 1.12; Serv. ad Aen.<br />

10.272 <strong>and</strong> 388 (poem on Virgilian legends <strong>and</strong> iambic epitome of Livy, possibly by<br />

Avianus).<br />

910<br />

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