R
Rabirius (ca 150 BCE – 75 CE)
P records his advice that human milk benefits the bowels and serves as an emmena-
gogue: 28.74 (note 1.ind.28). To be distinguished from C’s two clients, and unlikely
to be the epic poet contemporary with O (Ex Ponto 4.16.5; FLP 332); the name is not
rare enough to identify him with the Epicurean Rabirius in Cicero, Acad. 1.5, much less
the Rubrius of Pliny 29.7; cf. also LGPN 1.398, MRR 2.35, 2.273.
RE 1A.1 (1914) 23 (#2), H. Gossen.
PTK
Ravenna Cosmography (600 – 720 CE?)
A Latin work composed in Ravenna. It begins with an introduction that contains biblical
and patristic references and places the geographical account in the framework of Christian
knowledge about the world created by God. The work combines late Roman and biblical
traditions. Thus, following a pattern already established by earlier Christian writers, the
author uses the notion of a tripartite division of the Earth, which became traditional in
classical geography, and supplies from the Bible the names of the sons of Noah who settled
in each continent. The work describes the Earth’s three continents and contains lists of
geographical names partially arranged in the order of Roman provinces. Most of the
sources used by the anonymous author are now lost (cf. C). Similarities to the
P M suggest that both works ultimately go back to a common exemplar, prob-
ably a Roman road map.
Ed.: J. Schnetz, Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia = Itineraria Romana 2 (1990) 1–110.
RE 1A.1 (1914) 305–310, G. Funaioli; KP 4.1343, Fr. Lasserre; NP 4.934, K. Brodersen.
Natalia Lozovsky
Remmius Fauinus (300 – 400 CE)
Some MSS attribute the C P M to Remus or Rem(m)ius
Fauinus (or Fauianus). He has been identified with Dunamius, alias Flauinus, a poet friend
of Ausonius (ca 310 – 400? CE).
PLRE 1 (1971) 325; K.D. Raios, Recherches sur le Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris (1983) 27–45.
Mauro de Nardis