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Roman writer of epigrams, lived in See also:Africa during the reigns of the Vandal See also:kings Thrasamund, Hilderic and Gelimer (A.D. 496-534). He speaks of his poor circumstances, but from the superscription clarissimus and spectabilis in one MS., he seems to have held a high See also:official position. About a See also:hundred epigrams by him in various metres (the elegiac pre-dominating) have been preserved. They are after the manner of See also:Martial, and many of them are coarse. They See also:deal chiefly with the See also:games of the See also:circus and See also:works of See also:art, and the See also:language shows the author to have been well acquainted with the legends and antiquities of the classical See also:period of See also:Rome. Luxorius also wrote on grammatical subjects (see R. See also:Ellis in See also:Journal of See also:Philology, viii., 1879). The epigrams are contained in the Anthologia See also:Latina, edited by F. Biicheler and A. Riese (1894).

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