Festus, Anicius
was entrusted by Macrinus with the command of Asia, after the disgrace of Asper. Festus had been, on former occasions, passed over by Severus in the allotment of provinces. (D. C. 88.22.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.