Avienus
Avienus was a Latin writer of the 4th century AD. An inscription from Bulla Regia reports his full name as "Postumius Rufius Festus who is also Avienius". He was a native of Volsinii in Etruria, from the distinguished family of the Rufii Festi. He was twice appointed consul, if an inscription published by the 17th-century antiquaries Jacob Spon and Raffaello Fabretti really refers to this Avienus.
Famously asked what he did in the country, he answered Prandeo, poto, cano, ludo, lavo, caeno, quiesco:
Avienus made somewhat inexact translations into Latin of Aratus' didactic poem Phaenomena. He also took a popular Greek poem in hexameters, Periegesis, briefly delimiting the habitable world from the perspective of Alexandria, written by Dionysius Periegetes in a terse and elegant style that was easy to memorize for students, and translated it into an archaising Latin as his Descriptio orbis terrae ("Description of the World's Lands"). Only Book I survives, with an unsteady grasp of actual geography and some far-fetched etymologies: see Ophiussa.
Avienus (consul 501)
Flavius Avienus Iunior (floruit 501–509) was a Roman politician during the reign of Theodoric the Great. He held the consulship with Pompeius as colleague in 501.
He probably belonged to the gens Decia; he was the son of Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius (consul in 480), and brother of Albinus iunior (consul in 493), Theodorus (consul in 505) and Inportunus (consul in 509). John Moorhead argues that the brothers were on different sides of the Laurentian schism, with Albinus and Avienus supporting Symmachus and Theodore and Inportunus supporting Laurentius.
He was a correspondent of Magnus Felix Ennodius; one letter by Ennodius to Avienus has been preserved.
By 507/509, Avienus and his brother Albinus had already become patricii; around this time, but after the death of their father, they were asked to become patrons of the Greens and to appoint a pantomime.
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by: Jah Vinci[Intro:]
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A Jah Vinci
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Not Nice
[Chorus:]
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Tired a di heartache, tired a di worries
Sleepless night wen mi affi bare hungry
Doh seh mi greedy, thugs need money
Rich, yeh mi waa fi mek some money
Tired a di heartache, tired a di worries
Sleepless night wen mi affi bare hungry
Yes it's lovely, wen you hav money
[Verse 1:]
Mi waa fi rich rich rich an always can find it
Mi waan fi look pon mi house, can believe a mine it
With pearly white tub and ceramic toilet
Cah mi cya see mi dream and avoid it
But it's like a drought wen mi open mi fridge
Dyin fi cross suffering bridge
Big Sunday evening wen you a nyam rice and beans
Me affi sekkle fi some oats porridge
Poppa did tell me say betta soon come
Same time mi run mi seh di house too ram
Now mi find mi self pon mi own
All alone, a bleach wid a chrome
Same time mi link up Addi
Him seh doh kill, an doh rob nobody
Now my life is happy
Cause all I want to be...
[Chorus:]
Dis year mi waa fi rich, yeh mi waa fi mek some money
Tired a di heartache, tired a di worries
Sleepless night wen mi affi bare hungry
Doh seh mi greedy, thugs need money
Rich, yeh mi waa fi mek some money
Tired a di heartache, tired a di worries
Sleepless night wen mi affi bare hungry
Yes it's lovely, wen you hav money
[Verse 2:]
Try fi look a work, dem seh there's no vacany
But mi kno seh a weh mi come d fucka dem a pree
Nah go bow, nah go beg, nah go kill nobody
Pray dat Jah Jah hear my plee
Cah mi wah mi mada hav a big house pon d hill
Nah fi go nuh work becauz a chill she a chill
And if she get thirsty, she pop a cork and let it spill
Nah fi worry cause a me a pay d bill
Cause heights of great men, reach and kept
We're not attained by sudden flight
Meanwhile their companion slept
They were upward toilin thru da night
[Chorus:]
Dis year mi waa fi rich, yeh mi waa fi mek some money
Tired a di heartache, tired a di worries
Sleepless night wen mi affi bare hungry
Doh seh mi greedy, thugs need money
Rich, yeh mi waa fi mek some money
Tired a di heartache, tired a di worries
Sleepless night wen mi affi bare hungry
Yes it's lovely, wen you hav money
[Outro:]
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[Chorus:]
Dis year mi waa fi rich, yeh mi waa fi mek some money
Tired a di heartache, tired a di worries
Sleepless night wen mi affi bare hungry
Doh seh mi greedy, thugs need money
Rich, yeh mi waa fi mek some money
Tired a di heartache, tired a di worries
Sleepless night wen mi affi bare hungry