sentences:  These phrases suggest he was a patron of literature, including of the poet Ausonius.His two sons Probinus and Olybrius continued the tradition by being the patrons of Claudian, who paints a flattering picture of Probus in his "Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus" written to celebrate his sons' joint consulship in 395.Ammianus Marcellinus portrays him as a vain and rapacious man who "owned estates in every part of the empire, but whether they were honestly come by or not is not for a man like me to say".