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NEMESIANUS, MARCUS AURELIUS OLYMPIUS

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NEMESIANUS, See also:MARCUS AURELIUS OLYMPIUS , See also:Roman poet, a native of See also:Carthage, flourished about A.D. 283. He was a popular poet at the See also:court of the Roman See also:emperor See also:Carus (Vopiscus, Carus, II). He wrote poems on the arts of fishing (Halieutica), aquatics (Nautica) and See also:hunting (Cynegetica), but only a fragment of the last, 325 See also:hexameter lines, has been preserved. It is neatly expressed in See also:good Latin, and was used as a school See also:text-See also:book in the 9th See also:century. Four eclogues, formerly attributed to See also:Titus See also:Calpurnius (q.v.) Siculus, are now generally considered to be by Nemesianus, and the Praise of See also:Hercules, generally printed in Claudian's See also:works, may be by him. Comnlete edition of the works attributed to him in E. Bahrens, oe, See also:Oesophagus. st, See also:Stomach. cs, Oesophageal outgrowth for lateral See also:organ. am, Amnion. pr.d., Prostomial disk.

po.d., Metastomial disk. See also:

Ovid's Halieutica and Grattius Faliscus) 1838, and R. Stern, with Grattius (1832); See also:Italian See also:translation with notes by L. F. Valdrighi (1876). The four eclogues are printed with those of Calpurnius in the See also:editions of H. Schenkl (1885) and E. H. See also:Keene (1887); see L. Cisorio, Studio sulle Egloghe di N. (1895) and Dell' imstaziore nelle Egloghe di N. (1896); and M.

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Haupt, De Carminibus Bucolicis Calpurnii et N. (1853), the See also:chief See also:treatise on the subject.

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