Proba, active 4th century

LC control no.	n 81020207
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Proba, active 4th century *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Flatonia Veccia, active 4th century Proba, 2, active 4th century Proba, 4th cent. Proba, Faltonia Betitia, active 4th century
Beginning date	03
Special note	Not the same as Anicia Faltonia Proba, granddaughter of Faltonia Betitia Proba or Valeria Proba Anicia.
Found in	Clark, E.A. and D.F. Hatch. The golden bough, the oaken cross ..., 1981: p. 97ff. (Scholars since the time of Karl Schenkl [1888] ... have assigned the work [the Cento] to Faltonia Betitia Proba (who calls herself simply "Proba" in the poem) ... Earlier commentators, writing before Schenkl's edition, held varying opinions ... Some thought that the poet should be identified as Anicia Faltonia Proba) Die Anicier und die römische Dichterin Proba, 1870. The Oxford classical dictionary, 2003 (Proba, Faltonia Betitia; Christian poet and wife of Clodius Celsinus Adelphius, prefect of Rome in A.D. 351) Green, R.P.H. Proba's Cento, its date, purpose, and reception. In Classical quarterly, n.s., vol. 45, no. 2 (1995): p. 551 (Proba 2 in PLRE)