Note 14 — Chapter III · THE LAST ROMAN SCHOOLS AND THE COMPENDS (FIFTH TO SEVENTH CENTURIES)
Reading edition
About 430-484; Bishop of Auvergne, 471; educated at Lyon.
Editions: Mohr, Leipzig (Teubner), 1895, and MGH.
Biography by Chaix (l’Abbé L.-A.), St. Sidoine Apollinaire et son siècle, 2 vols., Paris, 1867; translation, with introduction and notes, by Dalton (O. M.), Oxford, 1915.
For his influence see Manitius, Boissier, Roger. It was doubtless enhanced, if not revived, by dictamen, for which see below, Chapter VIII. Alain de Lille puts him beside Quintilian and Symmachus among “rhetoricæ auctores alii” (Anticlaudianus, III. iii). John of Salisbury refers to him in Metalogicus (PL. 199: 831 A, 865 D) and Policraticus (see the index to Webb’s ed.).