Faustus Junior

A correspondent named Faustus who received letters in the circle of Magnus Felix Ennodius, deacon and later bishop of Ticinum (modern Pavia) in the late fifth and early sixth centuries. He most likely belongs to the senatorial Anician milieu of Ostrogothic Italy that surrounded Ennodius; a Flavius Anicius Probus Faustus (Faustus Niger), consul of 490 and praetorian prefect under Theoderic, was a prominent member of that family and patron of Ennodius. However, the precise identity of this 'Faustus Junior' is not securely established from the letters alone, and the record here also flags a 'pliny_younger' association, which would point instead to a wholly distinct earlier figure; this conflation makes a confident single identification unsafe. He is therefore best described as a Roman aristocratic correspondent of the Ennodian circle in early-sixth-century Italy, active around Pavia and the senatorial world of Rome and Ravenna, rather than assigned invented dates or offices.