What is "sabinus"

Sabinus was a common name among ancient Romans - see Sabinus (cognomen)

It can also refer to:

• Sabines, a tribe in Latium predating the Roman Republic

Ancient Romans

• Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis, founder of the Claudian family
• Titus Flavius Sabinus (disambiguation), several people
• Quintus Titurius Sabinus (died 54 BC), legate under Julius Caesar
• Gaius Calvisius Sabinus (consul 39 BC), Roman consul in 39 BC
• Gaius Poppaeus Sabinus, consul in AD 9
• Sabinus (Ovid) (died AD 14 or 15), Roman poet, known friend of Ovid
• Gaius Calvisius Sabinus (consul AD 26)
• Masurius Sabinus, Roman jurist who lived during the reign of Tiberius (Tiberius reigned 14-37 AD)
• Calvisius Sabinus (mentioned by Seneca), a contemporary of Seneca, alive around 30 AD
• Julius Sabinus, Romanised Gaul who rebelled against Rome, living around AD 69
• Cornelius Sabinus, military tribune who conspired against Caligula
• Gaius Valarius Sabinus, Roman finance minister around AD 271
• Sabinus of Seville, 3rd-century bishop of Seville, Spain
• Sabinus (4th century), 4th-century historian

Saints

• Sabinus of Spoleto (d. 304), Roman martyr
• Sabinus of Hermopolis, Christian martyr of Egypt
• Sabinus of Canosa (461-566), bishop of Canosa in Italy
• Sabinus of Piacenza (333-420), bishop of Piacenza in Italy

Other uses

• Georg Sabinus, rector of University of Königsberg
• Sabinus (opera), a 1773 opera by Gossec

Sabinus (d. AD 14 or 15) was a Latin poet and friend of Ovid. He is known only from two passages of Ovid's works.

At Amores 2.18.27—34, Ovid says that Sabinus has written responses to six of Ovid's Heroïdes, the collection of elegiac epistles each written in the person of a legendary woman to her absent male lover. These are enumerated as Ulysses to Penelope, in response to Heroïdes 1; Hippolytus to Phaedra (H. 4); Aeneas to Dido (H. 7); Demophoon to Phyllis (H. 2); Jason to Hypsipyle (H. 6); and (presumably) Phaon to Sappho (H. 15).

Three of these Ovidian responses by Sabinus — the letters from Ulysses and Demophoon, along with a letter from Paris to Oenone (Heroïdes 5) — are printed in Renaissance editions of the Heroïdes. Modern scholars believe them to have actually been written in the 1460s–1470s by the humanist Angelo Sabino, who was a poet and editor of classical texts. His edition advertised the inclusion of poems by "Aulus Sabinus," and though this has sometimes been taken as the ancient poet's praenomen, it was probably part of Sabino's invention.

Sabinus is also among some thirty contemporary poets mentioned by Ovid in his verse letters from exile (collected as the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto). Ovid's bitter last letter ex Ponto, written in 15 AD, alludes to Sabinus's response from Ulysses and gives titles for two other works by him, Troezen and Dierum Opus, the latter of which is said to have been left unfinished upon his recent and untimely death.

The 19th-century scholar Carl Gläser conjectured that the Troezen was an epic poem containing a history of the birth and adventures of Theseus, whose birthplace was Troezen, up to the time of his arrival at his father's court at Athens. The Dierum Opus ("Days' Work") he regarded as a continuation of Ovid's calendrical Fasti, which was left unfinished when he died in exile. Since Sabinus died before Ovid, this may be problematic.

Sabinus is an ancient Roman cognomen originally meaning " Sabine"; that is, it indicated origin among the Sabines, an ancient people of Latium. It was used by a branch of the gens Flavia, of the gens Calvisia, and several others, and is by far the most common of the cognomina indicating ethnic origin that were in use during the Republican and Augustan eras. Sabine heritage carried a positive stereotype of traditional values and trustworthiness, and since the cognomen may have been appropriated by some politicians for its aura of uprightness, it should not always be taken as a mark of authentic Sabine origin.

Sabinus is an opera by the composer François-Joseph Gossec. It originally took the form of a tragédie lyrique in five acts (later reduced to four). The French-language libretto, by Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon, concerns the revolt of the Gaulish nobleman Julius Sabinus and his wife Epponina (Éponine) against Roman rule. The opera had its first performance at Versailles on 4 December 1773 in the presence of King Louis XV, before transferring to the Paris Opéra on 22 February 1774. Sabinus was not a success, even in a revised four-act version, and was soon withdrawn. Assessments of the music has been mixed, but some modern critics share Gossec's view that Sabinus prefigures the revolution in operatic practice Christoph Willibald von Gluck would soon introduce to Paris.