On Illustrious Men

123. Tiberianus

CXXII. LATRONIANUS atronianus, who originated from the province of Spain,1 was a man of great learning and worthy to be compared with the ancients as a composer in verse. He, too, was put to death at Trier, along with Priscillian, Felicissimus , Julian, and Euchrotia, authors of the same faction. 2. Works of this talented man survive, published in a variety of meters.2 notes 1. Hispania, the peninsula of Spain, was divided into the two Roman provinces of Hispania Citerior (later Tarraconensis) and Hispania Ulterior (later Baetica); cf. J. Matthews, Western Aristocracies, 149–50, 166. 2. Nothing survives. references Q 4, 142 — Rebenich, 213, 215, 270 CXXIII. TIBERIANUS iberianus from baetica [in Spain],1 to dispel a suspicion which associated him with the heresy of Priscillian,2 wrote an Apology in a turgid and well-ordered style;3 but, after the murder of his followers, he got tired of his life in exile, weakened in his resolution and, to use the words of Holy Scripture, “like a dog, returned to his vomit,”4 and entered into a matrimonial union with his daughter, who was a virgin consecrated to Christ. notes 1. The province of Baetica in southern Spain now comprises Andalusia and part of Granada; Tacitus, Hist. 1.53. ON ILLUSTRIOUS MEN 157 ...