In the 4th century there are scattered references to his life and work. Flavius Vopiscus, one of the supposed "Scriptores Historiae Augustae", mentions him twice ("Aurelian" 2.1, "Probus" 2.7.) and names him among the "disertissimos viros", the most eloquent men. Ammianus Marcellinus, as mentioned, started his history where Tacitus had finished. Jerome knew of him, and Sulpicius Severus either used his Annales as a source for passages on Nero or, according to Aurthur Drews, the passage in Sulpicius Severus's Chronicles later found its way into Annales. By the 5th century only a few authors seem aware of him: Sidonius Apollinaris, who admires him, and Orosius, who alternately derides him as a fool and borrows passages (including many that are otherwise lost) from his works. Cassiodorus and his disciple Jordanes (middle of the 6th century) make the last known antique references; Cassiodorus draws on parts of the "Germania" and Jordanes cites the "Agricola", but both know the author only as "Cornelius".