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ALBINOVANUS PEDO

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ALBINOVANUS PEDO , See also:

Roman poet, flourished during the Augustan See also:age. He wrote a Theseis, referred to in a See also:letter from his intimate friend See also:Ovid (Ex Ponto, iv. 1o), epigrams which are commended by See also:Martial (ii. 77, v. 5) and an epic poem on the exploits of Germanicus. He had the reputation of being an excellent raconteur, and See also:Quintilian (x. 90) awards him qualified praise as a writer of epics. All that remains of his See also:works is a beautiful fragment, preserved in the Suasoriae (i. 15) of the rhetorician See also:Seneca,from a description of the voyage of Germanicus (A.D. 16) through the See also:river See also:Ems to the See also:Northern Ocean, when he was overtaken by the See also:storm described by See also:Tacitus (See also:Ann. ii. 23). The See also:cavalry See also:commander spoken of by the historian is probably identical with the poet.

Three elegies were formerly attributed to Pedo by See also:

Scaliger; two on the See also:death of See also:Maecenas (In Obitum Maecenatis and De Verbis Maecenatis moribundi), and one addressed to Livia to See also:console her for the death of her son See also:Drusus (Consolatio ad Liviam de Morte Drusi or Epicedion Drusi, usually printed with Ovid's works); but it is now generally agreed that they are not by Pedo. The Consolatio has been put down as See also:late as the 15th See also:century as the See also:work of an See also:Italian imitator, there being no See also:MSS. and no trace of the poem before the publication of the editio princeps of Ovid in 1471. There is an See also:English See also:verse See also:translation of the elegies by See also:Plumptre (19o7). See Bahrens, Poetae See also:Latini Minores (1879) and Fragmenta Poetarum Latinorum (1886); See also:Haupt, Opuscula, i. (1875); Haube, Beitrag zur Kenntnis See also:des Alliinovanus Pedo (188o).

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