Alfius Avitus
- Textgroups:
- phi1203
- CITE id:
- urn:cite:perseus:author.67
- Phi id:
- phi1203
- Alt id:
- LCCN nr 95021123
- Name:
- Alfius Avitus
- Abbr:
- AVIT.
- Alt names:
- Avitus, Alfius
Alphius Avitus
Alfius Auitus
Avitus, Alphius
Alphius Avitus, Flavius
Avitus, Flavius Alphius
AVIT.
- Field of activity:
- Poet
- Notes:
- His Carmina [CF] 1991: PHI CD ROM #5.3, Latin Canon, bibliographic
screen (Alphius Avitus)
Oxford class. dict., 1st ed.: p. 37 (Alfius (Alphius) Avitus
a
"neoteric" of Hadrian's time)
Pauly-Wissowa: 2. Halbbd., col. 1475
"Alfius", #4 (Alfius Avitus
wrote Roman history in iambic dimeters)
NUC pre-56: v. 10, p. 386 (Alphius Avitus, Flavius)
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol ,
1867, p. 434-435: "The Latin poet quoted under this name is believed to have flourished
during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius. Many suppose him to be the same person with
Alfius Flavus-the precocious pupil of Cestius and contemporary with Seneca, who while yet a
boy was so famed for his eloquence, that crowds flocked to listen to his orations (Senec.
Controv. i. )-and with Flavius Alfius, referred to by Pliny (1. N. ix. 8), as an authority
for a story about dolphins. ..."
- Author info:
- VIAF
- Wikipedia
- Smith's Dictionary
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