ASTERIUS, TURCIUS RUFUS. — Western consul in A.D. 494; according to indications in ancient manuscripts, he would have published the Paschale Carmen by Sedulius; but
the news is contradicted by the Paschale Opus, in which the author assumes his poem was already known.
BIBL.: J. Huemer, in the preface to the ed. of Sedulius, CSEL, 10, Vienna 1881, p. VII; U. Moricca, Storia della letteratura latina cristiana, III, Turin n.d., pp. 54 ff. Michele Pellegrino