Reference edition:

Vibius Sequester edidit Remo Gelsomino, Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri 1967.

The work is of uncertain date, but was written probably in the fourth or fifth century AD. It contains a collection of place names mentioned in the works of the Latin poets Virgil, Ovid, Lucan and Silius Italicus as well as a number of geographic references taken not from the poems themselves but from exegetical works on them. The book, as indicated by the Latin title, lists names of rivers, wells, lakes, forests, swamps, mountains and peoples; the names are arranged in alphabetical order, but with respect to the first letter only (in litteram digesta nomina), in accordance to ancient usage. Rivers and mountains, in that order, are by far the largest categories of place names discussed in this short treatise.

The text has been transmitted to us by the well known manuscript Vat. lat. 4929, in a section on history and geography which also includes Iulius Paris’ Epitoma, Titius Probus’ De praenominibus, the Septem mira, and Pomponius Mela’s Chorographia. [D. Paniagua; tr. L. Battezzato]