Nemesianus
Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus was a Roman poet thought to have been a native of Carthage and flourished about AD 283. He was a popular poet at the court of the Roman emperor Carus (Historia Augusta, Carus, 11).
Works[]
The works below are by, or sometimes attributed to, Nemesianus
Didactic poetry[]
Nemesianus wrote poems on the arts of fishing (Halieutica), aquatics (Nautica) and hunting (Cynegetica), but only a fragment of the last, 325 hexameter lines, has been preserved. It is neatly expressed in good Latin, and was used as a school textbook in the 9th century AD.
Two fragments exist of a poem about bird catching (De aucupio), which are sometimes attributed to Nemesianus, although this attribution is considered doubtful.[1]
The Eclogues[]
See main article: Eclogues of Nemesianus.
Four eclogues, formerly attributed to Titus Calpurnius Siculus, are now generally considered to be by Nemesianus.
The Praise of Hercules[]
The Praise of Hercules, sometimes printed in Claudian's works, may be by him.
Editions[]
Complete edition of the works attributed to him in Emil Baehrens, Poetae Latini Minores, iii. (1881); Cynegetica: ed. Moritz Haupt (with Ovid's Halieutica and Grattius) 1838, and R. Stern, with Grattius (1832); Italian translation with notes by L. F. Valdrighi (1876). The four eclogues are printed with those of Calpurnius in the editions of H. Schenkl (1885) and Charles Haines Keene (1887); see L. Cisorio, Studio sulle Egloghe di Nemesiano (1895) and Dell' imitazione nelle Egloghe di Nemesiano (1896); and M. Haupt, De Carminibus Bucolicis Calpurnii et Nemesiani (1853), the chief treatise on the subject. The text of the Cynegetica, the Eclogues, and the doubtful Fragment on Bird-Catching were published in Vol. II of Minor Latin Poets (Loeb Classical Library with English translations (1934).
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Hornblower, S. and Spawforth, A. (eds) (1996), the Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. p 1033
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Nemesianus, Marcus Aurelius Olympius". Encyclopædia Britannica. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 368.
External links[]
- Nemesianus, Latin text and English translations in the Loeb edition, at LacusCurtius.
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