Talk:Avitus

message: Where is "Viernum"? I can't find a reference to it anywhere else, aside from copy-and-paste websites using this Wikipedia page as source. In the past, I read that Avitus was confirmed as Emperor in Ugernum (Beaucaire) near Arles by the Gauls, though I can't find that reference now, either.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xeliff (talk • contribs) 08:42, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
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message: For the Early Life section, in SIDONIUS ON THE REIGN OF AVITUS: A STUDY IN POLITICAL PRUDENCE by Ralph W. Mathisen, he cites two sources for a summary of Avitus' early career "For a discussion of these events see, inter alios, J. B. Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire (London 1923) 323-30, and C. E. Stevens, Sidonius Apollinaris and His Age (Oxford 1933) 19-40". I'm not sure of the xact reference for each claim, but if anyone has access to these sources there are probably a good few points to compare. 
TechnicalityBlip (talk) 00:05, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: His grandson was the poet Avitus of Vienne.
I received Tuesday from Amazon the Schanzer & Wood translation, Avitus of Vienne: Letters and Selected Prose, & there is no mention of any such claim. The two scholars do provide proof that Avitus was related somehow to the Emperor Avitus' son-in-law, the aristocrat & poet Sidonius Apollinaris, & also mention published speculation that the younger Avitus' mother may have been Sidonius' sister.
In short, is there a source for this assertion? I'll be happy to tag it if no one has a source at hand & wait for an answer. -- llywrch 20:07, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
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message: This article gives the death of Petronius Maximus  as 22 May.  The article on Petronius Maximus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronius_Maximus says 31 May.
Neither article explains what source provides such specific dating evidence, so I have not ventured to correct them, but they can't both be right.  Would be great if someone who does have this information could correct the entry that is wrong and cite the source.  
82.71.104.222 (talk) 13:31, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've turned up references to a few dates online, but the cites to 31 May are more authoritative. I've seen a few references to Petronius ruling for 77 days (beginning March 17), which would be consistent with the 31st. The entry from the video series on the emperors produced by historian Adrian Murdoch points to the 31st: http://adrianmurdoch.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/04/63-petronius-maximus-emperors-of-rome.html ; and Encyclopedia Brittanica Online also cites the 31st: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/370593/Petronius-Maximus . Perhaps not definitive sources, but would seem to put the onus on whoever claims it was the 22nd. Laszlo Panaflex (talk) 02:58, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates around fall of Rome 

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