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Magnus Felix Ennodius (473 or 474 – 17 July 521) was Bishop of Pavia in 514, and a Latin rhetorician and poet. He was one of four Gallo-Roman aristocrats of the fifth to sixth-century whose letters survive in quantity: the others are Sidonius Apollinaris, prefect of Rome in 468 and bishop of Clermont (died 485), Ruricius bishop of Limoges (died 507) and Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne (died 518). All of them were linked in the tightly bound aristocratic Gallo-Roman network that provided the bishops of Catholic Gaul.〔Ralph W. Mathisen, "Epistolography, Literary Circles and Family Ties in Late Roman Gaul" ''Transactions of the American Philological Association'' 111 (1981), pp. 95-109.〕 He is regarded as a saint, with a feast day of 17 July.〔Gross, Ernie. ''This Day In Religion.'' New York:Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc, 1990. ISBN 1-55570-045-4.〕 == Life == Ennodius was born at Arelate (Arles) and belonged to a distinguished but impecunious family. As T.S. Mommaerts and D.H. Kelley observe, "Ennodius claimed in his letters to them to be related to a large number of individuals. Unfortunately, he seldom specified the nature of the relationship."〔Mommaerts and Kelley, "The Anicii of Gaul and Rome" in John Drinkwater and Hugh Elton, ''Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity?'' (Cambridge: University Press, 1992), p. 114〕 Because his sister Euprepia (b. 465 or 470) is known to have had a son named Flavius Licerius Firminus Lupicinus, who was named for his grandfather, Vogel argued that Ennodius' father was named Firminus. Jacques Sirmond suggested that Ennodius was the son of one Camillus of Arles, whose father was a proconsular and the brother of Magnus, the consul of 460; but Mommaerts and Kelley dismiss Sirmond's identification as untenable. They also agree with Vogel that Ennodius' grandfather could not be either Ennodius or Felix Ennodius, both of whom were proconsuls of Africa.〔 Having lost his parents at an early age, Ennodius was brought up by an aunt at Ticinum (Pavia); according to some, at Mediolanum (Milan). After her death he was received into the family of a pious and wealthy young lady, to whom he was betrothed. It is not certain whether he actually married this lady; she seems to have lost her money and retired to a convent, whereupon Ennodius entered the Church, and was ordained deacon (about 493) by Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia. From Pavia he went to Milan, which Ennodius made his home until his elevation to the see of Pavia about 515. During his stay at Milan he visited Rome and other places, where he gained a reputation as a teacher of rhetoric. As bishop of Pavia he played a considerable part in ecclesiastical affairs. On two occasions (in 515 and 517) he was sent to Constantinople on an embassy to the emperor Anastasius, to endeavour to bring about a reconciliation over the Acacian schism that divided the Eastern and Western churches.〔While the ''Liber Pontificalis'' states Ennodius had been sent by king Theodoric the Great (Raymond Davis (translator), ''The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis)'', first edition (Liverpool: University Press, 1989), p. 47), and it is doubtful that Ennodius could have left Italy without Theodoric's consent, it is clear he represented Pope Hormisdas on these missions.〕 Ennodius' epitaph still exists in the basilica of St Michael at Pavia.〔''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'', v. pt. ii. No. 6464. See French translation by Stéphane Gioanni in ''Ennode de Pavie, Lettres'', I, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2006 and ''Ennode de Pavie, Lettres'', II, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Magnus Felix Ennodius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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