Proba (fourth century AD); author of verse Cento on the creation of the world and the life of Christ; almost certainly `Faltonia Betitia Proba’ (fl. 351), as argued most recently by R. H. P. Green, `Proba’s Cento: its Date, Purpose, and Reception’, Classical Quarterly, 45 (1995), 551-63 (refuting D. Shanzer’s identification of `Anicia Faltonia Proba’ and dating of the work to 384-8 in `The Anonymous Carmen contra paganos, and the Date and Identity of the Centonist Proba’, Revue des Ütudes Augustiniennes, 32 (1986), 232-48); Green follows the traditional dating of the composition to 350-6; A. H. M. Jones, J. R. Martindale, and J. Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, I 732 (`Proba 2’); OCD 1249. ♦ Categorisation: Gender: Unknown. Century: unknown century.

— author (8 entries)

• A‑622 Ausonius, Decimus Magnus — Opera. — Venice: [Printer of Ausonius], 7 Dec. 1472. Folio.
• B‑053 Barberiis, Philippus de — Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini, et al. — Rome: Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, [after] 1 Dec. 1481. 4°.
• B‑054 Barberiis, Philippus de — Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini, et al. — [Rome: Georgius Teutonicus (Lauer or Herolt?) and] Sixtus Riessinger, [c.1482]. 4°.
• P‑464 Proba — Centones Vergilii. — [Basel: Michael Wenssler, c.1474]. Folio.
• P‑465 Proba — Centones Vergilii. — [Leipzig: Martin Landsberg, c.1492-6]. 4°.
• P‑466 Proba — Centones Vergilii. — [Paris: Michel Le Noir?, c.1498]. 4°.
• P‑467 Proba — Centones Vergilii. — [Paris]: Guy Marchant, for himself and for Alexander Alyate, 3 Mar. 1499/1500. 4°.
• P‑468 Proba — Centones Vergilii. — [Burgos: Friedrich Biel, c.1500]. 4°.

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