the Fourth Week of Advent
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Encyclopedias
Maximianus
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or a Latin elegiac poet who flourished during the 6th century A.D. He was an Etruscan by birth, and spent his youth at Rome, where he enjoyed a great reputation as an orator. At an advanced age he was sent on an important mission to the East, perhaps by Theodoric, if he is the Maxim ianus to whom that monarch addressed a letter preserved in 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.
Editions by J. C. Wernsdorf, Poetae latini minores, vi.; E. Behrens, Poetae latini minores, v.; M. Petschenig (1890), in C. F. Ascherson's Berliner Studien, xi.; R. Webster (Princeton, 1901; see Classical Review, Oct. 1901), with introduction and commentary; see also Robinson Ellis in American Journal of Philology, v. (1884) and Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans.), § 490. There is an English version (as from Cornelius Gallus), by Hovenden Walker (1689), under the title of The Impotent Lover.
These files are public domain.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Maximianus'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/maximianus.html. 1910.
