LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
proper noun

Ăvĭēnus

Meaning

  1. a Roman poet in the last half of the fourth century

Ăvĭēnus, i, m.: Rufus Festus Avienus,
I. a Roman poet in the last half of the fourth century, whose most distinguished work is a Metaphrasis Periegesos Dionysii, and a metaphrase of the Phœnomena of Aratus; cf. Bähr, Lit. Gesch. pp. 128 sq. and 153; Teuffel. Rom. Lit. § 413.

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What does Ăvĭēnus mean in Latin?
Ăvĭēnus, a proper noun, means “a Roman poet in the last half of the fourth century”.