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MAXIMIANUS , a Latin elegiac poet who flourished during the 6th See also:

century A.D. He was an See also:Etruscan by See also:birth, and spent his youth at See also:Rome, where he enjoyed a See also:great reputation as an orator. At an advanced See also:age he was sent on an important See also:mission to the See also:East, perhaps by See also:Theodoric, if he is the Maximianus to whom that monarch addressed a See also:letter preserved in See also:Cassiodorus (Variarum, i. 21). The six elegies extant under his name, written in old age, in which he laments the loss of his youth, contain descriptions of various amours. They show the author's familiarity with the best writers of the Augustan age. See also:Editions by J. C. Wernsdorf, Poetae See also:latini minores, vi. ; E. Bahrens, Poetae latini minores, v.; M. Petschenig (189o), in C.

F. Ascherson's Berliner Sludien, xi.; R. See also:

Webster (See also:Princeton, 19oI ; see Classical See also:Review, Oct. 1901), with introduction and commentary; see also See also:Robinson See also:Ellis in See also:American See also:Journal of See also:Philology, v. (1884) and See also:Teuffel-See also:Schwabe, Ilist. of See also:Roman Literature (Eng. trans.), § 49o. There is an See also:English version (as from See also:Cornelius See also:Gallus), by See also:Hovenden See also:Walker (1689), under the See also:title of The Impotent See also:Lover.

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