Aemilius Magnus Arborius

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Aemilius Magnus Arborius (* around 270 in Aquitaine , † after 330 in Constantinople ; both details uncertain), son of Caecilius Argicius Arborius from Augustodunum (Atun) and Aemilia Corinthia Maura, was a late antique rhetorician . His two sisters were called Aemilia Hilaria , a doctor and a lifelong virgin, and Aemilia Aeonia, the mother of the poet Ausonius . Most of the latter has been handed down from his life. Arborius was a lawyer, rhetorician and grammar teacher in Tolosa (Toulouse). There he lived mainly as a teacher of Latin grammar in a school he founded and was a lawyer at the courts of Narbonensis , Novempopulana and Tarraconensis .

At the time when Arborius was running his school, the half-brothers Konstantins II , Constans and Constantius II were also in exile there. You should have taken lessons from him. It was probably through this acquaintance with the imperial family that Arborius was called to Constantinople around 329/330. There he taught a Caesar, probably Constans, which gave him respect throughout the empire, even after his death. Constantine had the body buried with his family in Aquitaine. Arborius had been married to a wealthy, elegant woman, but had no children with her.

Arborius is credited with the elegiac poem “Ad nympham nimis cultam”, the only work that has come down to us.

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credentials

  1. ↑ Ausonius Parentalia 4, 2.6, 3; Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 17, 6
  2. ↑ Auson. parent. 6, 8ff .; 7, 2; Auson. comm. prof. Burd. 17, 6.
  3. ↑ Auson. parent. 8th
  4. ↑ Auson. parent. 4th
  5. ↑ Auson. parent. 5.11-14
  6. ↑ Auson. comm. prof. Burd. 16. Jens-Uwe Krause, Spätantike Patronatsformen in the West of the Roman Empire, Munich 1988, p. 14
  7. ↑ Auson. parent. 5, 15 and comm. prof. Burd. 13. Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen, Empire and Education in Late Antique Constantinople, Franz Steiner Verlag 1995, p. 48
  8. ↑ Auson. comm. prof. Burd. 17, 15ff.
  9. ↑ Auson. comm. prof. Burd. 17, 9 and parent. 5, 20.
  10. ^ Johann Christian Felix Bähr , History of Roman Literature, Karlsruhe 1868/70, p. 294
personal data
SURNAME Aemilius Magnus Arborius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION late antique rhetorician
DATE OF BIRTH at 270
PLACE OF BIRTH Aquitaine
DATE OF DEATH after 330
Place of death Constantinople