Luxorius
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Luxorius, Roman writer of epigrams, lived in Africa during the reigns of the Vandal kings Thrasamund, Hilderic, and Gelimer (AD 496-534). He speaks of his poor circumstances, but from the superscription darissimus and spectabilis in one MS., he seems to have held a high official position. About a hundred epigrams by him in various meters (the elegiac predominating) have been preserved in the Anthologia Latina. They are after the manner of Martial, and many of them are coarse. They deal chiefly with the games of the circus and works of art. His language shows the author to have been well acquainted with the legends and antiquities of the classical period of Rome and with the works of various classical poets, in particular Virgil. Indeed, Luxorius' longest poem is an epithalamia, composed as a cento from Virgil's works. Luxorius' religious affiliations are uncertain, and scholars have variously described him as a pagan, Catholic, or Arian.
Some scholars have identified Luxorius with a certain Lisorius, a grammaticus who authored the Orthographia and the Cornicius discussed in a 12th century Latin glossary.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- Rosenblum, M. Luxorius: A Latin Poet Among the Vandals. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961
- Garson, R. W. “Observations on the epigrams of Luxorius.” Museum Africum 6 (1977/78) 9-14.
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