Agroecius of Sens

Agroecius of Sens was a Gallo-⁠Roman of the fifth century, bishop of Sens and a grammarian. He is the author of a surviving Latin work, De Orthographia et Differentia Sermonis, written as a supplement to the work of Flavius Caper on the same subject, around 450 and dedicated to Eucherius, bishop of Lyon, who had earlier given him a copy of Caper. He is supposed to have lived in the middle of the fifth century. The work was printed in several Italian incunabula editions between 1476 and 1500.

Sidonius Apollinaris addressed a letter to him, asking his help in a dispute over who would inherit the vacant see of Bourges, in 470, and Agroecius did indeed travel to Bourges to help. He is generally taken to be the man in a letter of Salvian apologizing for disrespectful behavior. He was possibly a descendant of the rhetorician Censorius Atticus. The sources at hand do not show him as a saint.