Postumius Rufius Festus Avienius[1][2][3] (sometimes erroneously Avienus) was a Latin writer of the 4th century AD.
[6] Avienius made a free translation into Latin of Aratus' didactic poem Phaenomena.
He also took a popular Greek poem in hexameters, Periegesis, briefly delimiting the habitable world from the perspective of Alexandria, written by Dionysius Periegetes in a terse and elegant style that was easy to memorize for students, and translated it into an archaising Latin as his Descriptio orbis terrae ("Description of the World's Lands").
Only Book I survives, with an unsteady grasp of actual geography and some far-fetched etymologies: see Ophiussa.
[9] According to legend, when asked what he did in the country, he answered Prandeo, poto, cano, ludo, lavo, caeno,[check spelling] quiesco: I dine, drink, sing, play, bathe, sup, rest.