Abstract: In Letter I, 5, Sidonius Apollinaris gives to posterity the memory of his prestigious journey from Lyon Rome. This study explores how author an account in which (§ 1 memoratu) takes a central place, he reworks travel narrative, plays with rich literary (Horace, Vergil, Lucan, Pliny Younger…) and builds self-memory. The re-evaluated Silius Italicus, Prudentius Claudian’s VI Panegyricus...