Faltonia Betitia Proba
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Faltonia Betitia Proba (c. 320 - c. 370). Roman Christian poet, married to Clodius Celsinus Adelphus, prefect of Rome. Very little is known about her life and only one poem, attributed to her by modern scholars, survived. It is a cento called Cento virgilianus and presents the Biblical story from the creation of the world to the ascension of Jesus into heaven by using 694 lines from Virgil. This poem was declared apocryphal (not heretic, but also not allowed to be read in public) by pope Gelasius I.