Pentadius (poet)

[5] Paola Paolucci, on the other hand, proposed to identify the poet with the Bishop Pentadius who attended the Council of Carthage in 416 and is mentioned in Pope Innocent I's letter of that year.

[6] Two other educated 5th-century Africans with of the name are known: the Pentadius who was governor of Egypt in 404 and corresponded with Synesius of Cyrene, who attests to his learning;[7] and Pentadius, the nephew of Vindicianus Afer [de] and dedicatee of a Latin translation of a Hippocratic work.

The epigram on an otherwise unknown Chrysokome was probably based on the account of Claudia Quinta in Ovid's Fasti.

[14] The Anonymi versus serpentini, epigrams 25–68 of the Latin Anthology, may show Pentadian influence.

[12] At least fourteen anonymous poems have been ascribed to Pentadius, the bulk of these later attributions coming from the 16th and 17th centuries.