A more productive achievement on the diplomatic front was to convince king Theodoric to intervene, conducted chiefly by two non-Roman supporters, the Milanese deacon Ennodius and the exiled deacon Dioscorus.

A second papal embassy consisting of Ennodius and Bishop Peregrinus of Misenum was as unsuccessful as the first.

Another law issued to reorganise the tax system was issued on September 4 of the same year, and was entitled De bonis caducis sive proscriptorum, " On Abandoned Property and That of Proscribed Persons " ( Novella Maioriani 5 ): the comes privatae largitionis Ennodius was to admonish the provincial judges against defrauding the imperial treasure, keeping for themselves a part of the money collected.

Magnus had been appointed Praetorian prefect of Gaul in 458, while the Praetorian prefect of Italy was Caecina Decius Basilius, who was the patron of the Gallic senator ( and poet ) Sidonius Apollinaris, while the comes privatae largitionis, Ennodius, was related to a family with interests in Arelate.

He was one of four fifth-to sixth-century Gallo-Roman aristocrats whose letters survive in quantity ; the others are Ruricius bishop of Limoges ( died 507 ), Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne ( died 518 ) and Magnus Felix Ennodius of Arles, bishop of Ticinum ( died 534 ).

Other Syagrii Mathisen lists with a connection to Gaul are a great-grandson of Afranius, who had an estate at Taionnacus near Lyons, and a wealthy Syagria of Lyons who was described by Magnus Felix Ennodius as thesaurus ecclesiae.

The cognomen Messalla, frequently written Messala, appears with the agnomens Barbatus, Niger or Rufus, with the nomens Ennodius, Pacatus, Silius, Thrasia Priscus or Vipstanus, and with the praenomens Potitus and Volesus, and was itself originally, and when combined with Corvinus, an agnomen, as M. Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla, i. e. of Messana.

One usage of Hesperia in classical times was as a synonym for Italy, and it is noticeable that some of the vocabulary and stylistic devices of these pieces originated not among the Irish, but with the priestly and rhetorical poets who flourished within the Vatican-dominated world ( especially in Italy, Gaul, Spain and Africa ) between the fourth and the sixth centuries, such as Juvencus, Avitus of Vienne, Dracontius, Ennodius and Venantius Fortunatus.

Magnus Felix Ennodius ( 473 or 474 – July 17, 521 ) was Bishop of Pavia in 514, and a Latin rhetorician and poet.

Ennodius was born at Arelate ( Arles ) and belonged to a distinguished but impecunious family.

" Because his sister Euprepia ( b. 465 or 470 ) is known to have a son named Flavius Licerius Firminus Lupicinus, who was named for his grandfather, Vogel argued that Ennodius ' father was named Firminus.

Jacques Sirmond suggested that Ennodius was the son of one Camillus of Arles, whose father was a proconsular and the brother of Magnus, the consul of 460 ; but Mommaerts and Kelley dismiss Sirmond's identification as untenable.

Having lost his parents at an early age, Ennodius was brought up by an aunt at Ticinum ( Pavia ); according to some, at Mediolanum ( Milan ).

It is not certain whether he actually married this lady ; she seems to have lost her money and retired to a convent, whereupon Ennodius entered the Church, and was ordained deacon ( about 493 ) by Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia.

The editio princeps of Ennodius was published by Johann Jakob Grynaeus in 1569 at Basel.

Other descendants of Ennodius, and thus possibly of Maximus, included Anicius Olybrius, emperor in 472, but also several consuls and bishops such as St. Magnus Felix Ennodius ( Bishop of Pavia c. 514-21 ).

In his account of this visit, Magnus Felix Ennodius, who accompanied Epiphanius on this journey, describes Godegisel as germanus regis the " king's brother " and not king -- again contradicting Gregory of Tour's later account.

Ennodius is one of the best representatives of the two-fold ( pagan and Christian ) tendency of 5th century literature, and of the Gallo-Roman clergy who upheld the cause of civilization and classical literature against the inroads of barbarism.

Magnus Felix Ennodius, Bishop of Pavia, records in his " Apologia pro Synodo ", Gestatoriam sellam apostolicae confessionis, alluding to the Cathedra S. Petri, still preserved in the choir of St. Peter's at Rome.

In his biography of St. Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia, Ennodius states Glycerius made " many measures for the public good ", but mentions only that he pardoned " the injury done to his mother by certain of his subjects at the petition of bishop Epiphanius.

Of the later 5th century and early 6th century, Sidonius Apollinaris ( c. 430 – after 489 ) and Ennodius ( 474 – 521 ), both from Gaul, are well known for their poems, as is Venantius Fortunatus ( c. 530 – 600 ).

Cassiodorus and Magnus Felix Ennodius report the death without noting a cause.

However, an early document known as the " Laurentian Fragment " claims that Symmachus obtained the decision by paying bribes, while deacon Magnus Felix Ennodius of Milan later wrote that 400 solidi were distributed amongst influential personages, whom it would be indiscreet to name.

However, a document known as the " Laurentian Fragment " claims that Symmachus obtained the decision by paying bribes, while deacon Magnus Felix Ennodius of Milan later wrote that 400 solidi were distributed amongst influential personages, whom it would be indiscreet to name.

Ennodius notes that " more than six thousand souls " were so ransomed ; from Lyons alone 400 men were thus freed.

* Novella Maioriani 5, De bonis caducis sive proscriptorum, " On Abandoned Property and That of Proscribed Persons " ( given in Ravenna, on September 4, 458, to Ennodius, comes privatae largitionis, also in the name of Leo I );

Vogel did so seeing traces of a chronological sequence in that order, which Sr. Genevieve Cook notes led to " a series of studies on the chronology of the works of Ennodius ".

A modern edition of Ennodius ' correspondence is under way: Stéphane Gioanni, Ennode de Pavie, Lettres, tome I: Livres I et II, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2006, based on her 2004 Ph. D. thesis.

Very little is known of Olybrius ' policy ; in his Vita Epifanius, Ennodius describes him as a pious man and that he acted accordingly.

Two letters of Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop of Pavia, survive addressed to him, written when the latter tried to regain horses and money he had lent the pope.

The pope's embassy to the imperial court consisted of two bishops, Ennodius of Pavia and Fortunatus of Catina, the priest Venantius, the deacon Vitalis, and the notary Hilarius.

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