Thompson, it is likely that Sidonius, whose purpose was to write a panegyric and not a history, simply added some spurious names to his list, including the Bastarnae.

The last indication that the Goths whose king reigned at Toulouse considered themselves Vesi is found in a panegyric on Avitus by Sidonius Apollinaris dated 1 January 456.

The Gallo-Roman aristocrat and poet Sidonius Apollinaris was an acquaintance of the Emperor and composed a panegyric that is the major source for Majorian's life up to 459.

Major source for Avitus ' life until his rise to the throne is the panegyric written in occasion of his consulate by Sidonius Apollinaris ( 431 – 486 ):

This union produced one son, Apollinaris, and at least two daughters: Sidonius mentions in his letters Severina and Roscia, but a third, Alcima, is only mentioned much later by Gregory of Tours, whom Theodor Mommsen has speculated may be identified with one of his other daughters.

Carmen 5 is a panegyric to Majorian, which offers evidence that Sidonius was able to overcome the natural suspicion and hostility towards the man who was responsible for the death of his father-in-law.

Carmen 2 is a panegyric to the emperor Anthemius, part of Sidonius ' efforts to be appointed Urban Prefect of Rome ; several samples of occasional verse ; and nine books of Letters, about which W. B.

On the other hand, Thompson believes that the presence of Burgundians on the Hunnic side is credible, noting that a group is documented as remaining east of the Rhine ; likewise, he believes that the other peoples Sidonius alone mentions — the Rugians, Scirans and Thuringians — were likely participants in this battle.

It is difficult to credit the universal wickedness adduced by Salvian, especially in face of the contemporary testimony of Symmachus, Ausonius and Sidonius.

More secure information is provided by a letter which has survived that was written to Riothamus from Sidonius Apollinaris, bishop of Clermont, who requested his judgment for " an obscure and humble person " who had had his slaves enticed away by a group of armed Bretons.

This letter does not mention Riothamus by name, however, and ( depending on how the chronology of Sidonius ' letters is reconstructed ), it is possible that Riothamus and his forces were not the direct subject of Arvandus ' message to Euric, as Arvandus might have already been under arrest and on his way to Rome before Riothamus had even entered the fray against the Goths.

Sidonius Apollinaris refers to Septimania as " theirs " during the reign of Avitus ( 455 – 456 ), but Sidonius is probably considering Visigothic settlement of and around Toulouse.

The author is a native of southern Gaul ( Toulouse or perhaps Poitiers ), and belonged, like Sidonius Apollinaris, to one of the great governing families of the Gallic provinces.

Suzanne and St. Sidoine ( Sidonius ) as well as the reliquary, which is said to hold the remains of Mary Magdalene.

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 ).

The earliest record is from Sidonius Apollinaris who wrote of the persecution suffered by the bishops of Comminges at the hands of the Arian Goths in the 5th century.

A description of the institution and character of the Ascensiontide rogations is given by Sidonius Apollinaris.

The activity of the brothers is described in one letter of Sidonius Apollinaris, while another is addressed to Bishop Mamertus.

Sources for Anthemius's life are richer than for most fifth century Western Emperors, partly because of his origin in Constantinople, where the tradition of court histories was kept alive, and partly because of the details that can be extracted from a panegyric delivered on January 1, 468 by the Gallo-Roman poet Sidonius Apollinaris.

Avitus had two sons, Agricola ( 440 – after 507, a vir inlustris ) and Ecdicius Avitus ( later patricius and magister militum under Emperor Julius Nepos ) and a daughter Papianilla ; she married Sidonius Apollinaris, whose letters and panegyrics remain an important source for Avitus ' life and times.

The manuscripts of the Satyricon ascribe the work to a " Petronius Arbiter ", while a number of ancient authors ( Macrobius, Sidonius Apollinaris, Marius Victorinus, Diomedes and Jerome ) refer to the author as " Arbiter ".

Though phrases and even sentences from many classical authors are inwoven here and there, the narrative flows easily, with no trace of the jolts and jerks which offend us in almost every line of an imitator of the classics like Sidonius.

Although defended by Sidonius Apollinaris, at the head of the diocese from 468 to 486, and the patrician Ecdicius, the city was ceded to the Visigoths by emperor Julius Nepos in 475 and became part of the Visigothic kingdom until 507.

Sidonius had come to Rome to bring a petition from his people ; his contact in the court, Consul Caecina Decius Basilius, suggested that he should compose a panegyric to be performed at the beginning of Anthemius ' consulate, on January 1 468.

Gregory of Tours speaks of Sidonius as a man who could celebrate Mass from memory ( without a sacramentary ) and give unprepared speeches without any hesitation.

A letter from Sidonius Apollinaris records that the Praetorian Prefect of Gaul Arvandus sent a message to the Gothic king Euric stating that " the Britons stationed beyond the Loire should be attacked ", which has led some to suggest that Riothamus was betrayed by Arvandus.

At any rate, in passing from Rutilius to Sidonius, one might feel as if he has left the realm of Latin poetry, for the realm of Latin verse.

By the 5th century only a few authors seem aware of him: Sidonius Apollinaris, who admires him, and Orosius, who alternately derides him as a fool and borrows passages ( including many that are otherwise lost ) from his works.

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.

Sidonius was so influential that he convinced the Emperor to commute the death penalty of Arvandus, the Praetorian prefect of Gaul who had allied himself with the Visigoths.

Sidonius Apollinaris tells of a failed coup d ' etat in Gaul organised by one Marcellus and probably aimed at bringing Avitus back on the throne.

Sidonius ' grandfather was Praetorian Prefect of Gaul prior 409 and a friend of his successor Decimus Rusticus.

Sidonius may be a descendant of another Apollinaris who was Prefect of Gaul under Constantine II between 337 and 340.

" One such were the Bastarnae, according to the Gallic nobleman Sidonius Apollinaris.

St. Mamertus was the founder of the Rogation Processions, according to Sidonius Apollinaris, and his second successor, Avitus In connexion with these intercessory processions, Mamertus summoned a synod at Vienne between 471 and 475.

This was repeated by Claudian and Sidonius and reinterpreted by Cassiodorus.

The Visigoths are called Wesi or Wisi by Trebellius Pollio, Claudian, and Sidonius Apollinaris.

reproduces word for word ( except for details of hair and beard ) a description of another monarch written nearly eight hundred years earlier by Sidonius Apollinaris.

In the Western Roman Empire, Sidonius Apollinaris was a Christian admirer of Apollonius in the 5th century.

According to the poet Sidonius Apollinaris, the cause of the fall of Majorian was the jealousy of Aetius ' wife, who feared that Majorian could overshadow Aetius ' prestige.

With the intercession of Majorian ' magister epistolarum Petrus, Sidonius Apollinaris, the son-in-law of Avitus, was allowed to deliver a panegyric in honour of the Emperor ( early January 459 ), receiving in reward the appointment to the rank of comes spectabilis.

And the promises were followed by facts, as told by Sidonius Apollinaris, who had been anonymously accused of the authorship of a pamphlet against some influential figures: during a dinner together, Majorian defused the risky situation with a witticism.

* Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina ; Letters.

Translation: Anderson, W. B., Sidonius.

In the same year Clermont (- Ferrand ) surrendered to him after a long siege, and its bishop, Sidonius Apollinaris, sued for peace.

* Sidonius Apollinaris ( c. 430 – after 489 ) Gallo-Roman poet, diplomat and bishop

Sidonius Apollinaris refers to " Arbiter ", by which he apparently means Petronius ' narrator Encolpius, as a worshipper of the " sacred stake " of Priapus in the gardens of Massilia.

The poet Sidonius Apollinaris arrived in Rome on the occasion of the wedding at the end of 467, and described the celebrations in which all social classes were involved ; he also hints that Alypia might have not liked her husband, a barbarian.

Among the new patricii there were, obviously, Italian senators, e. g. Romanus and Messius Phoebus Severus, but against common practice he also appointed Gallic senators and even aristocrats without noteworthy careers, e. g. Magnus Felix and the Gallic poet Sidonius Apollinaris.