Flavius Merobaudes (5th century), Latin rhetorician and poet, probably a native of Baetica in Spain. (4th century - 5th century - 6th century - other centuries) // Events Rome sacked by Visigoths in 410. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Roman province of Hispania Baetica, 120 AD In Hispania, which in Greek is called Iberia, there were three Imperial Roman provinces, Hispania Baetica in the south, Lusitania, corresponding to modern Portugal, in the west, and Hispania Tarraconensis in the north and northeast. ...

He was the official laureate of Valentinian III and Atius. Till the beginning of the 10th century he was known only from the notice of him in the Chronicle (year 443) of his, contemporary Idacius, where he is praised as a poet and orator, and mention is made of statues set up in his honour. Solidus minted in Thessalonica to celebrate the marriage of Valentinian III to Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of the Eastern Emperor Theodosius II. On the reverse, the three of them in wedding dresses. ... ( 9th century - 10th century - 11th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000. ... Events The Burgundians create a kingdom on the banks of the Rhone Attila destroys Naissus. ...

In 1813 the base of a statue was discovered at Rome, with a long inscription belonging to the year 435 (CIL vi. 1724) upon Flavius Merobaudes, celebrating his merits as warrior and poet. Ten years later, Niebuhr discovered some Latin verses on a palimpsest in the monastery of St Gall, the authorship of which was traced to Merobaudes, owing to the great similarity of the language in the prose preface to that of the inscription. 1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Events August 3 - Nestorius is exiled by Imperial edict to a monastery in a Sahara oasis. ... Barthold Georg Niebuhr. ... A palimpsest is a manuscript page, scroll, or book that has been written on, scraped off, and used again. ... St. ...

Formerly the only piece known under the name of Merobaudes was a short poem (30 hexameters) De Christo, attributed to him by one manuscript, to Claudian by another; but Ebert is inclined to dispute the claim of Merobaudes to be considered either the author of the De Christo or a Christian. Hexameter is a literary and poetic form, consisting of six metrical feet per line as in the Iliad. ... Claudius Claudianus was the court poet to the Emperor Honorius and Stilicho. ... Friedrich Adolf Ebert (July 9, 1791 - November 13, 1834), German bibliographer, was born at Taucha, near Leipzig, the son of a Lutheran pastor. ...

The Panegyric and minor poems have been edited by BG Niebuhr (1824); by Immanuel Bekker in the Bonn Corpus scriptorum hist. (1836); the De Christo in T Birt's Claudian (1892), where the authorship of Merobaudes is upheld; see also A Ebert, Geschichte der Literatur des Mittelalters ins Abendlande (1889). August Immanuel Bekker (May 21, 1785 - June 7, 1871), was a German philologist and critic. ...

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