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Sidonius travelled extensively. We can arrange his movements into four types: the official journey or one related to public life (trips to Rome, Arles and Toulouse); the pastoral journey (once he became bishop); the social trip (to visit friends); the forced journey (his journey into exile in 475). The letters of Sidonius (his poems are of little use for the subject at hand here) are artistic letters, which often exclude prosaic and concrete details and veil the reality under literary reference. They often frustrate us by omitting material aspects that we would expect. However there is a lot more information than is generally thought, as we try to demonstrate in an analysis of the letter I, 5, where Sidonius describes his trip from Lyon to Rome in 467. [Author]