Martianus and His First Editor

But even here the precision is less secure than might appear. Four different consuls called Paulinus come into the reckoning; and though the absence of a second consular name and the Christian reference suffice to eliminate the Paulini of 325 and 334, that still leaves a choice between 498 and 534. It was Otto Jahn who first decided in favor of 534,2 not from a study of the consular formula, but on the basis of another subscriptio, that of Mavortius, cos. 527, to the Epodes of Horace: