"Maeonio uati qui par aut proximus esset, consultus Paean risit et haec cecinit; si potuit nasci, quem tu sequereris, Homere, nascetur, qui te possit, Homere, sequi."
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Alcimus Alethius
Alcimus (Avitus) Alethius (fl. c. 354 AD) was the writer of seven short poems in the Latin Anthology. Classical scholar J. C. Wernsdorf believed him to be the same person as Alcimus, the rhetorician in Aquitania, in Gaul, who is spoken of in terms of high praise by Sidonius Apollinaris and Ausonius. It is possible however that Apollinaris was referring to his contemporary, Avitus of Vienne, also known as Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus.
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