The anonymous author of the Latin Theodoriciana (the so-called Anonymus Valesianus pars posterior) quotes the prophecy of *Severinus (hermit and monk of Noricum, ob. c. 482, S00848) concerning Odoacar from Eugippius' Life of *Severinus (for which see E02347). Written probably in Ravenna (northern Italy), mid-6th century.
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Theodoriciana (Anonymus Valesianus II) chapters 45-49
Odoacar vero, cuius supra fecimus mentionem, mox deposito Augustulo de imperio, factus est rex mansitque in regno annos XIII. cuius pater Edico dictus, de quo ita invenitur in libris vitae beati Severini monachi intra Pannoniam qui eum admonuit et praedixit regnum eius futurum. ita repperis ad locum.
'Odoacer then, whom we have already mentioned above, soon after Augustulus was removed from power, became the king and he ruled for thirteen years. His father's name was Edicus. There are things said about him in the books of life of the blessed Severinus the monk in Pannonia who warned him and foretold him his future reign. At the place you will find what follows.'
The author cites here the passages from the Life of Severinus c. 6 in which Severinus is visited by Odoacer (who is Arian) and foretells him his future reign and c. 32 in which he again meets Odoacer, already the king, and this time foretells him the end of his rule. See E02347.
Text: König 1997: 72–74.
Translation and summary: M. Szada.
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The Anonymus Valesianus or Excerpta Valesiana is a name given to two Latin fragments edited by a French philologist Henri Valois (1603-76) in his edition of Ammianus Marcellinus in 1636. He found them in the same manuscript and thus edited them together, even though they have nothing to do with each other and were written by different authors. The first one (AV pars prior, AV I) is a short biography of the emperor Constantine and was edited by Mommsen under the title Origo Constantini imperatoris. The second fragment (AV pars posterior, AV II) is a work on Theoderic the Great, thus sometimes called the Chronica Theodoriciana. The text covers the period from 474 to 527. It was written by an author hostile to Gothic rule and Homoianism, probably in mid-6th century Italy, possibly in Ravenna.Bibliography
Editions:Festy, M., L'Italie sous Odoacre et Théoderic: Anonyme de Valois II, ed. M. Festy (Paris 2020), with introduction, commentary, and translation in French
König, I., Aus der Zeit Theoderichs des Grossen: Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar einer anonymen Quelle, (Darmstadt 1997), with introduction, commentary and translation in German
Mommsen, Th., Chronica Theodoriciana in MGH Auctores Antiquissimi 9 (Berlin 1892), 306-28
Further reading:
Ensslin, W., Theoderich der Grosse, (München 1959)
Goltz, A., Barbar-König-Tyrann: das Bild Theoderichs des Grossen in der Überlieferung des 5. bis 9. Jahrhunderts (Berlin 2008)
Moorhead, J., Theoderic in Italy, (Oxford 1992)
Pfeilschifter, G., Der ostgotenkönig Theoderich der Grosse und die katholische Kirche (Münster 1896)
For further references see also A. Di Berardino, Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, s.v. Anonymus Valesianus, 1:138-39.
Marta Szada
16/02/2021
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00848 | Severinus, hermit and monk in Noricum, ob. 482 | Severinus | Certain |
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