Proba Tactilis
Proba may refer to: ; people * Faltonia Betitia Proba, fourth-century Latin poet * Anicia Faltonia Proba, her niece and the recipient of letters from Saint Augustine and Saint John Chrysostom ; places * Próba, Łódź Voivodeship, village in the administrative district of Gmina Brzeźnio, within Sieradz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. * Proba, Leningrad Oblast, settlement in Russia ; other uses * Proba (bug), ''Proba'' (bug), a genus of insects in the tribe Mirini * PROBA, a series of low-cost satellites from the European Space Agency {{Disambiguation ...
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Faltonia Betitia Proba
Faltonia Betitia Proba (c. AD 306/315 – c. 353/366) was a Latin Roman Christian poet, perhaps the earliest female Christian poet whose work survives. A member of one of the most influential aristocratic families, she composed the '' Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi'', a cento composed with verses by Virgil re-ordered to form an epic poem centred on the life of Jesus. Life Proba belonged to an influential family of the 4th century, the '' Petronii Probi''. Her father was Petronius Probianus, Roman consul in 322, while her mother was probably called Demetria.Fassina. She had a brother, Petronius Probinus, appointed consul in 341; also her grandfather, Pompeius Probus, had been a consul, in 310. Proba married Clodius Celsinus Adelphus, '' praefectus urbi'' of Rome in 351, thus creating a bond with the powerful ''gens'' Anicia. They had at least two sons, Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius and Faltonius Probus Alypius, who became high imperial officers. She also had ...
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