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RUFIUS FESTUS See also: Roman aristocrat and poet, of Vulsinii in See also: Etruria, who flourished during the second See also: half of the 4th century A.D
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He was probably proconsul of See also: Africa (366) and of Achaia (372)
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See also: Avienus was a See also: pagan and a staunch supporter of the old See also: religion
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He translated the cl)acv6peea of See also: Aratus and paraphrased the Hepcir' is of See also: Dionysius under the title of Descriptio Orbis Terrarum, both in hexameters
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He also compiled a description, in See also: iambic trimeters, of the coasts of the Mediterranean, See also: Caspian and Black Seas in several books, of which only a fragment of the first is extant
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He also epitomized See also: Livy and Virgil's Aeneid in the same metre, but these See also: works are lost
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Some minor poems are found under his name in anthologies, e.g. a humorous See also: request to one Favianus for some pomegranates for medicinal purposes
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