Heronius

Heronius was a Gallo-Roman correspondent of Sidonius Apollinaris (c. 430-489 AD), the bishop, poet, and letter-writer of Auvergne in fifth-century Gaul. He is known almost entirely from the letters Sidonius addressed to him, including Sidonius's account of his journey to Rome and of the public life of the city, which places Heronius among the educated provincial aristocracy of the late Roman West. Beyond his role as one of Sidonius's friends and addressees, little independent detail about his career or family is securely attested; he belongs to the circle of cultured Auvergnat notables whose ties Sidonius's correspondence preserves. (The corpus also links this name to the Isidore of Pelusium collection, but that association is most likely a name-collision artifact rather than evidence of an Eastern figure.)