Auitus, the Latin poet Martial’friend
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Phylology, Classical Latin, Humanistic Latin, EpigramAbstract
Among the prominent figures mentioned by the Latin poet Martial is one Auitus, the friend to which he dedicated the «extraordinary» epigram with which book IX begins. This individual has been identified as L. Stertinius Auitus, consul suffectus in the year 92 A.D., since the poet himself specifies the «nomen» Stertinius in a short letter addressed to Toranio, who was also his friend. There is, however, no information that would allow us to think that Martial’s friend Auitus should be the hypothetical sanctus Auitus martyr to which the Spanish historians Francisco de Vivar and Juan Tamayo Salazar, among others, allude. The author of this paper examines both the literary and epigraphic texts that have served to identify Martial’s friend with L. Stertinius Auitus, as well as the arguments used by Spanish historians mentioned above to identify Auitus with the questionable second century Christian martyr.
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