| LC control no. | n 2015002191 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PA6652.R69 |
| Personal name heading | Rusticus Helpidius |
| Variant(s) | Helpidius, Rusticus Rustico Elpidius Elpidio, Rustico Rusticius Helpidius Helpidius, Rusticius Rusticus Helpidius Domnulus Flavius Rusticius Helpidius Domnulus |
| Beginning date | 04 |
| Associated country | Rome |
| Field of activity | Poetry Rome -- Politics and government |
| Found in | Tristicha, 2014: t.p. (Rustico Elpidio) p. 29, etc. (variant spelling, Rusticius; active mid 5th and possibly early 6th century; author of two Christian poems, Tristicha and De Christi Iesu beneficiisis; presumably had been active in politics as phrase in Tristicha refers to him as “vir clarissimus" [i.e., a senator] and "exquaestor;" possibly identifiable with reviser Rusticus Helpidius Domnulus or Flavius Rusticius Helpidius Domnulus, who represented Theodosius II at the Council of Ephesus (449); not identifiable with Helpidius, (d. 533), deacon and physician to king Theodoric) VIAF, viewed Jan. 8, 2015: (DNB hdg.: Rusticius Helpidius, ca. gest. ca. 533; Vat. Lib. hdg.: Rusticus Helpidius, sec. V-VI) BNC Firenze Opac, viewed Jan. 8, 2015: (hdg: Helpidius Rusticus) Biographical index of the Middle Ages, 2008, via Google books: p. 515 (Rusticus Helpidius) Catholic encyclopedia, 1913 ed. online: (Flavius Rusticus Helpidius: the name of several Latin writers; under the name of Helpidius, the "former quæstor", we have twenty-four strophes of three hexameters each, on scenes from the Old and New Testaments; under the title of "Rustici Elpidii carmen de Christi beneficiis" a short poem of one hundred and forty hexameters celebrates the miracles of Christ; the deacon Helpidius (died about 533), friend of Ennodius and physician of Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, is unquestionably another person) Perseus digital library, viewed Jan. 8, 2015: (under Helpidius: Rusticus Helpidius commemorated in an inscription with the title of Exquaestor) |
| Associated language | lat |
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