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Rufius Festus Avienus, a Roman aristocrat and poet, of Vulsinii in Etruria, who flourished during the second half of the 4th century AD.He was probably proconsul of Africa (366) and of Achaia (372). Avienus was a pagan and a staunch supporter of the old religion. He translated the ~acv6ueva of Aratus and paraphrased the flepufrqais of Dionysius under the title of Descriptio Orbis Terrarum, both in hexameters.
He also compiled a description, in iambic trimeters, of the coasts of the Mediterranean, Caspian and Black Seas in several books, )f which only a fragment of the first is extant. He also epitomized Livy and Virgil's Aeneid in the same metre, but these works are lost.
Some minor poems are found under his name in anthologies, e.g. a humorous request to one Favianus for some pomegranates or medicinal purposes.
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