Eumenius

Eumenius in Wikipedia

Eumenius (born c. 260 at the latest, more probably between 230 and 240), was one of the Roman panegyrists and author of a speech transmitted in the collection of the Panegyrici Latini (Pan. Lat. IX[1]). Life Eumenius was born at Augustodunum (Autun) in Gallia Lugdunensis. He was of Greek descent; his grandfather, who had migrated from Athens to Ro...

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Eumenius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Roman rhetorician of Augustodunum (Autun) in Gaul who flourished about A.D. 290. Four orations of his are preserved-one on the restoration of the school at Autun by Constantius Chlorus, delivered in A.D. 296 or 297, and three panegyrics. Text by Bährens (Leipzig, 1874). See Seeck in Jahn's Jahrbücher, cxxxvii. 713; Kilian, Der Panegyrist Eumenius...

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