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    Gaius Sollius Modestus Apollinaris Sidonius, better known as Sidonius Apollinaris (5 November, c. 430 – 481/490 AD), was a poet, diplomat, and bishop....
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  • Riothamus (category Correspondents of Sidonius Apollinaris)
    by a letter which has survived that was written to Riothamus from Sidonius Apollinaris, bishop of Clermont, who requested his judgment for "an obscure and...
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    ISBN 90-04-09435-0, p. 12). Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina, V.207–227. O'Flynn, pp. 94–95. Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina, V.290–300. Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina, V.305–308...
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  • throne (455), she married Sidonius Apollinaris, another aristocrat, with whom she had three or four children: Apollinaris, Severiana, Roscia and Alcima...
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  • apollinaris in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Apollinaris may refer to: Apollinaris, a correspondent of Pliny the Younger (61–c. 112) Apollinaris of...
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    Euric's death, power passed to his son, Alaric II. According to Sidonius Apollinaris (who spent time at Theodoric II's court), Theodoric II was a grandson...
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    468 by the Gallo-Roman poet Sidonius Apollinaris. Gregory of Tours, Historia Francorum Jordanes, Getica Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae and Carmen Mathisen...
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    Burgundians and their language were described as Germanic by the poet Sidonius Apollinaris. Herwig Wolfram has interpreted this as being because they had entered...
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    under Emperor Julius Nepos) and a daughter Papianilla; she married Sidonius Apollinaris, whose letters and panegyrics remain an important source for Avitus'...
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  • Sidonius is a Roman cognomen literally meaning "man from Sidon" Later it was used as a given name, after the saint Sidonius Apollinaris. Notable people...
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    The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; /loʊb/, German: [løːp]) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but...
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  • Decimus Rusticus. He was the grandfather of Sidonius Apollinaris and was the son or grandson of another Apollinaris who was Prefect of Gaul under Constantine...
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  • a friend of Sidonius Apollinaris from their schooldays. He married before 450 Eulalia (?), born c. 425, a cousin of Sidonius Apollinaris, daughter of...
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    Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina, 7.329. Hughes, Ian (2012). Aetius: Attila's Nemesis. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military. p. 159. Sidonius...
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    receiving support for a year at public expense and then being expelled. Sidonius Apollinaris refers to "Arbiter", by which he apparently means Petronius's narrator...
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    surviving writings of contemporary Gallo-Roman authors, such as Sidonius Apollinaris, Nepos' accession was enthusiastically accepted in the remaining...
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    have cut off your right hand with your left." Edward Gibbon credits Sidonius Apollinaris with this famous observation. Maximus expected to be made patrician...
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    played a key role in the imperial succession. Avitus's son-in-law Sidonius Apollinaris wrote propaganda to present the Visigothic king Theoderic II as a...
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  • during the 4th century was a patrician. He was possibly related to Sidonius Apollinaris. His mother was a clarissima femina and daughter of Afranius Syagrius...
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    learning... and her kindness, fellow-feeling, and lack of cruelty." Sidonius Apollinaris, writing in the 5th century, was the first person to identify Julia...
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    court of Euric in about 475. The raids were reported by Hydatius. Sidonius Apollinaris mentions Heruli at the Visigothic court in 476, although this is...
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  • poet Sidonius Apollinaris, was a relative of hers. She had Tonantius Ferreolus and other sons. Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina, XXIV 34-38. Sidonius Apollinaris...
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    well as his praenomen (first name) are not known. In the letters of Sidonius Apollinaris his name is Gaius, but in the major surviving manuscript of his work...
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  • marriage to king Euric (466–484). Ragnagild is known from the work of Sidonius Apollinaris to have acted as the patron of poets and artists. She could speak...
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  • Anthemius until 469.[citation needed] Ecdicius and his brother-in-law Sidonius Apollinaris, the Bishop of Clermont, took charge of the defence of the Auvergne...
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    sources in which this war is reported are the Gallo-Roman writer Sidonius Apollinaris (431-489) and the bishop of Chaves Hydatius (400-469). Furthermore...
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    Hydatius (400-469), Bishop of Chaves. Others useful contemporary are Sidonius Apollinaris (430-486) and the unnamed Gallic chronicle of 452. The reasons for...
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    bishop Sidonius Apollinaris, as described in detail in one of his letters. Epistulae II.2 as discussed in C. E. Stevens (1933) Sidonius Apollinaris and his...
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  • Agricola (vir inlustris) (category Correspondents of Sidonius Apollinaris)
    Agricola who was consul in 421. Agricola was related to the poet Sidonius Apollinaris, who married Papianilla, and to Ruricius of Limoges, who was his...
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    also unknown. In his panegyric to Anthemius, given in 468, the poet Sidonius Apollinaris claimed that Ricimer was Suevic on his father's side and Visigothic...
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