Abstract

‘VERANIUS’ is an uncommon gentilicium, with brief and transient notice in Loman annals. The earliest Veranius on record is the friend of Catullus. iccording to Catullus, he was abroad on the staff of a governor while, or just after, the poet was with Memmius in Bithynia. The governor was Piso, clearly L. Piso, proconsul of Macedonia till the summer of 55. Veranius, it emerges elsewhere, had also been in Hispania Citerior, accompanied here too by his inseparable Fabullus. Veranius may, or ray not, have been an author, identical with the Veranius who wrote on religious antiquities—who again might be the Veranius Flaccus whom Caesar Augusstus derided for his affected and archaic style.