Agricola (vir inlustris)
Agricola (
Western Roman Emperor Avitus
.
Biography
Agricola was the son of Avitus, and therefore the brother of
Ruricius of Limoges
, who was his father-in-law. He married and had a son, Parthenius, who gave him some grandsons. Two letters are 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, he had recently been ordained a priest.
Bibliography
- Jones, A.H.M., J.R. Martindale, and J. Morris, "Agricola 2", Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2 395–527, Cambridge, 1971–1992, p. 37.
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