He was one of four fifth to sixth-century Gallo-Roman aristocrats whose letters survive in quantity: the others are Sidonius Apollinaris, prefect of Rome in 468 and bishop of Clermont (died 485), Ruricius bishop of Limoges (died 507) and Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne (died 518).
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Jacques Sirmond suggested that Ennodius was the son of one Camillus of Arles, whose father was a proconsular and the brother of Magnus, the consul of 460; but Mommaerts and Kelley dismiss Sirmond's identification as untenable.
Felix Mendelssohn | Felix Frankfurter | Felix the Cat | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | Félix Guattari | Albertus Magnus | Magnus of Füssen | Magnus Lindberg | Magnus Carlsen | Magnus | St. Magnus | María Félix | Magnus effect | Félix Trinidad | Felix Klein | Olaus Magnus | Julie Felix | Felix Rodriguez | Félix Houphouët-Boigny | Felix Da Housecat | Magnus of Oderzo | Magnus Maximus | José Félix Ribas Municipality, Aragua | Felix von Luckner | Felix Unger | Félix Rodríguez (Central Intelligence Agency) | Felix Magath | Félix Fénéon | Allyson Felix | Wilhelm Magnus |
Other descendants of Ennodius, and thus possibly of Maximus, included Anicius Olybrius, emperor in 472, but also several consuls and bishops such as St. Magnus Felix Ennodius (Bishop of Pavia c. 514-21).