"Avianus can scarcely be called a poet. His tasteless, strained, imprecise Latin, with its constant inappropriate Virgilian reminiscences, might have been written by a nineteenth-century public schoolboy."
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Robert Browning, "The Fables of Avianus [Review of Avianus, Fabulae, by A. Guaglianone"], The Classical Review, vol. 10, no. 1 (1960), p. 42
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Avianus
(or possibly Avienus; fl. c. AD 400) was a Latin writer of fables. He appears to have lived at Rome and to have been a pagan. Forty-two fables by him are known, some of which became connected with epimythia ('morals') of later origin through the mediaeval manuscript tradition.
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