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APOLLINARIS SIDONIUS, See also:CAIUS SOLLIUS (c. 430–487 or 488) , See also:Christian writer and See also:bishop, was See also:born in See also:Lyons about A.D. 430. Belonging to a See also:noble See also:family, he was educated under the best masters, and particularly excelled in See also:poetry and polite literature. He married (about 452) Papianilla, the daughter of Avitus, who was See also:consul and afterwards See also:emperor. But Majorianus, in the See also:year 457, having deprived Avitus of the See also:empire and taken the See also:city of Lyons, Apollinaris See also:fell into the hands of the enemy. The reputation of his learning led 1blajorianus to treat him with the greatest respect. In return Apollinaris composed a See also:panegyric in his See also:honour (as he had previously done for Avitus); which won for him a statue at See also:Rome and the See also:title of See also:count. In 467 the emperor See also:Anthemius rewarded him for the panegyric which he had written in honour of him by raising him to the See also:post of See also:prefect of Rome, and afterwards to the dignity of a patrician and senator. In 472, more for his See also:political than for his theological abilities, he was chosen to succeed Eparchius in the bishopric of Arverna (Clermont). On the See also:capture of that city by the Goths in 474 he was imprisoned, as he had taken an active See also:part in its See also:defence; but he was afterwards restored by Euric, See also:king of the Goths, and continued to govern his bishopric as before. He died in A.D.

487 or 488. His extant See also:

works are his Panegyrics on different emperors (in which he draws largely upon See also:Statius, See also:Ausonius and Claudian) ; and nine books of Letters and Poems, whose See also:chief value consists in the See also:light they See also:shed on the political and See also:literary See also:history of the 5th See also:century. The Letters, which are very See also:stilted, also reveal Apollinaris as a See also:man of genial See also:temper, fond of See also:good living and of See also:pleasure. The best edition is that in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (See also:Berlin, 1887), which giver. a survey of the See also:manuscripts. Apollinaris Sidonius (the names are commonly inverted by the See also:French) is the subject of numerous monographs, See also:historical and literary. See, for bibliography, A. See also:Molinier, See also:Sources de l'histoire de See also:France, no. 136 (vol. i.). S. See also:Dill, See also:Roman Society in the Fifth Century, and T. See also:Hodgkin, See also:Italy and her Invaders (vol. vii.), contain interesting sections on Apollinaris. Ste also See also:Teuffel and See also:Ebert's histories of Latin literature.

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