501–509) was a Roman politician during the reign of Theodoric the Great.
He held the consulship with Pompeius as colleague in 501.
[2] John Moorhead argues that the brothers were on different sides of the Laurentian schism, with Albinus and Avienus supporting Symmachus and Theodore and Inportunus supporting Laurentius.
[3] He was a correspondent of Magnus Felix Ennodius; one letter by Ennodius to Avienus has been preserved.
[4] By 507/509, Avienus and his brother Albinus had already become patricii; around this time, but after the death of their father, they were asked to become patrons of the Greens and to appoint a pantomime.