For other uses, see Alcimus (disambiguation)

Alcimus (disambiguation)

Alcimus may refer to a number of people from classical history:*Alcimus , name of several figures in Greek mythology*Alcimus , Greek rhetorician of the 3rd century BC*Alcimus, high priest in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC...

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Alcimus (Avitus) Alethius was the writer of seven short poems in the Latin Anthology

Latin Anthology

The Latin Anthology is the appellation bestowed upon a collection of fugitive Latin verse, from the age of Ennius to about 1000, formed by Pieter Burmann the Younger...

. Classical scholar J.C. Wernsdorf believed him to be the same person as Alcimus, the rhetorician in Aquitania

Aquitania

Aquitania may refer to:* the territory of the Aquitani, a people living in Roman times in what is now Aquitaine, France* Aquitaine, a region of France roughly between the Pyrenees, the Atlantic ocean and the Garonne, also a former kingdom and duchy...

, in Gaul

Gaul

Gaul was a region of Western Europe during the Iron Age and Roman era, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg and Belgium, most of Switzerland, the western part of Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the left bank of the Rhine. The Gauls were the speakers of...

, who is spoken of in terms of high praise by Sidonius Apollinaris

Sidonius Apollinaris

Gaius Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius or Saint Sidonius Apollinaris was a poet, diplomat, and bishop. Sidonius is "the single most important surviving author from fifth-century Gaul" according to Eric Goldberg...

 and Ausonius. It is possible however that Apollinaris was referring to his contemporary, Avitus of Vienne

Avitus of Vienne

Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus was a Latin poet and archbishop of Vienne in Gaul.Avitus was born of a prominent Gallo-Roman senatorial family in the kinship of Emperor Avitus.-Life:...

, also known as Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus.

The date of this Alcimus is determined by Jerome

Jerome

Saint Jerome was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, of the city of Stridon, which was on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia...

 in his Chronicon

Chronicon (Jerome)

The Chronicle was a universal chronicle, one of Jerome's earliest attempts in the department of history...

, who says that Alcimus and Delphidius taught in Aquitania

Aquitania

Aquitania may refer to:* the territory of the Aquitani, a people living in Roman times in what is now Aquitaine, France* Aquitaine, a region of France roughly between the Pyrenees, the Atlantic ocean and the Garonne, also a former kingdom and duchy...

 in 360

360

Year 360 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantius and Iulianus...

. His poems are superior to most of his time. They are printed by Meier, in his " Anthologia Latina," ep. 254-260, and by J.C. Wernsdorf, vol. vi. p. 194, &c.