Aviana (gens)

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• Gaius Avianus Flaccus, an intimate friend of Cicero's. He and his two sons seem to have been engaged in the farming of the public taxes.
• Gaius Avianus C. f. Flaccus, recommended twice by Cicero; in 52 BC to Titus Titius, one of the legates of Pompeius, who had the management of the corn-market, in accordance with the law which conferred the superintendence of it upon Pompeius; and again in 47, to Aulus Allienus, the proconsul of Sicily.
• Marcus Avianus C. f. Flaccus, together with his brother, Gaius, recommended by Cicero to Aulus Allienus, the proconsul of Sicily, in 47 BC.
• Avianus, a writer of fables, thought to have lived around AD 400. He wrote in Latin, and is thought to have been a pagan at the time when pagans were becoming an increasingly persecuted minority in the Empire. His work still survives, and was popular in the Middle Ages.