Agricola (vir inlustris)

Agricola (floruit 466-485) was a son of the Western Roman Emperor Avitus.

Biography

Agricola was the son of Avitus, and therefore the brother of Ecdicius and Papianilla. His grandfather was probably the Agricola consul in 421. Agricola was related to the poet Sidonius Apollinaris, who married Papianila, and with Ruricius of Limonges, who was his father-in-law. He married and had a son, Parthenius, who gave him some grandsons. Two letters addressed to him by Sidonius Apollinaris (Epistles I.2, 453/466; II.12, before 469) and one by Ruricius (II.32, 485/506).

He was a vir inlustris. When he received Ruricius' letter (485/506) he had been shortly ordained priest.

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