Agroecius (Bishop of Sens)

:"For other uses of this name, see Agroecius."Agroecius or Agroetius was an ancient Gaul who was bishop of Sens.cite book | last = Jones | first = Arnold Hugh Martin | authorlink = | coauthors = J. R. Martindale | title = The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = 1980 | location = | pages = 39 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QCIaBQTCg0IC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-521-20159-4] He was also a grammarian, and the author of an extant work in Latin, "De Orthographia et Differentia Sermonis", intended as a supplement to a work on the same subject by Flavius Caper. It was composed around 450, [cite book | last = Irvine | first = Martin | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Making of Textual Culture: "Grammatica" and Literary Theory, 350-1100 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = 1994 | location = | pages = 75 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=65VTa6MoPmYC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-521-41447-4] and dedicated to the bishop Eucherius of Lyon, who apparently had earlier given Agroecius a copy of Caper's work. [cite book | last = Clemoes | first = Peter | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 15 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = 2007 | location = | pages = 29-31 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=5_CkWBhEukgC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-521-03839-1] He is supposed to have lived in the middle of the 5th century. His work is reprinted in Putschius' "Grammaticae Latinae Auctores Antiqui," pp. 2266—2275.Citation | last = Mason | first = Charles Peter | author-link = | contribution = Agroecius | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 82 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0091.html ]

He was the addressee of one extant letter from Sidonius Apollinaris, who sought Agroecius' aid in the dispute over who would inherit the vacant bishop's see in Bourges in 470 (Agroecius indeed traveled to Bourges to render his assistance);cite book | last = Drinkwater | first = John | authorlink = | coauthors = Hugh Elton | title = Fifth-century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity? | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = 1992 | location = | pages = 261 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=lHGOvpQfFqcC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-521-52933-6] and he is probably alluded to (although not named) in another of Apollinaris' letters, which speaks of a bishop of great eloquence and learning. [Sidonius Apollinaris, "Epistles" vii. 5.; cf. Sidonius Apollinaris, "Epistles" vii. 9.6] There was also at that time a bishop "Agrycius", the addressee of a letter of Salvian apologizing for his disrespectful behavior, who is generally taken to be this Agroecius.

He was possibly a descendant of the rhetorician Censorius Atticus. [cite book | last = Teuffel | first = Wilhelm Siegmund | authorlink = Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel | coauthors = George Charles Winter Warr (trans.) | title = Teuffel's History of Roman Literature | publisher = George Bell & Sons | date = 1892 | location = London | pages = 460 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=7OUdAAAAMAAJ | doi = | id = | isbn = ]

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