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Latini Minores (1879–1883) Robinson Ellis, The Fables of Avianus (1887) The Fables of Avianus, translated by David R. Slavitt, Johns Hopkins University

Middle Ages and became part of European high literature. The Roman writer Avianus (active around 400 AD) wrote Latin fables mostly based on Babrius, using

the writer Cicero, and the patron of the sculptor Avianus Evander [ca] and the freedman Gaius Avianus Hammonius. Cicero, Fam. 13.2, 21, 27  This article incorporates

1349), one hundred in number, which were based principally on those of Avianus (4th century) and the Anonymus Neveleti (edited by Isaac Nicolas Nevelet

pseudo-Dositheus and later appears in the 4th–5th-century Latin verse collection by Avianus. The history of this fable in antiquity and the Middle Ages is tracked

taken from the prose Romulus. He also composed a shorter Novus Avianus, taken from Avianus. A supplementary poem to De laudibus divinae sapientiae, called

Titianus, is said to have rendered the fables into prose in a work now lost. Avianus (of uncertain date, perhaps the 4th century) translated 42 of the fables

engineer of uncertain date. Marcus Aemilius Avianus, a friend of Cicero, and the patron of Avianus Evander and Avianus Hammonius. Aemilius Macer, a poet who

Lipsiae : In aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Alan Cameron, "Macrobius, Avienus, and Avianus" The Classical Quarterly New Series, 17.2 (November 1967), pp 385–399.

Julianus Titianus translated into prose, and in the early 5th century Avianus put 42 of these fables into Latin elegiacs. The largest, oldest known and