Letters: Books 3-9 [Latin]

by Sidonius Apollinaris

Belles lettres.

Sidonius Apollinaris, a Gallo-Roman, was born at Lugdunum (Lyon) about AD 430. He married Papianilla, daughter of the Emperor Avitus in whose honor he recited at Rome on 1 January 456 a panegyric in verse. Sidonius later joined a rebellion, it seems, but was finally reconciled to the emperor Majorian and delivered at Lyon in 458 a panegyric on him. After some years in his native land, in 467 he led a Gallo-Roman deputation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 0674994620
• ISBN13: 9780674994621
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.6" x 6.7"