Aemilius Magnus Arborius

Aemilius Magnus Arborius (* about 270 in Aquitaine, † after 330 in Constantinople, Opel, both information uncertain), son of Caecilius Argicius Arborius from Augustodunum ( Atun ) and the Aemilia Corinthia Maura was a late ancient rhetorician. His two sisters were called Aemilia Hilaria, one became a nun, and Aemilia Aeonia, the mother of the poet Ausonius. Of the latter, most of it is handed down from his life. Arborius was a lawyer, orator and teacher of grammar in Tolosa ( Toulouse). There he lived primarily as a teacher of Latin grammar in a school he founded and was a lawyer in the courts of the Narbonensis, Novempopulana and Tarraconensis.

At the time, as Arborius operated his school, and the half-brothers Constantine II, Constans and Constantius II held in exile there. They should have taken lessons from him. Probably through this acquaintance with the imperial family 's vocation Arborius to Constantinople Opel by 329 / 330. There he taught a Caesar, probably Constans, which he enjoyed prestige in the whole Empire, even after his death. The corpse was Constantine in Aquitaine buried with his family. Arborius had been married to a wealthy, make woman, no children had had with her ​​though.

Arborius is the elegiac poem "Ad nympham nimis cultam " attributed to him by the only surviving work.