Nemesianus
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Marcus Aurelius 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).
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- Iani Vlitii Venatio novantiqua celsissimo Arausionis principi Guilhelmo dicata
- Gratii ... De venatione liber I. P. Ouidij Nasonis Halieuticôn liber acephalus. M. Aurelij Olympij Nemesiani Cynegeticôn lib. I. Eiusdem Carmen bucolicum. T. Calpurnij Siculi Bucolica. Adriani cardinalis Uenatio
- Bucolica
- Venatici et bvcolici poetae latini, Gratius, Nemesianus, Calpurnius, in Germania hactenus non editi, nunc commentariis luculentis explanati
- Quattro elegantissime egloghe rusticali
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- Cynegetica
· 1934 · cited 3x
- On Bird-Catching (Fragments)
· 1934
- Bucolica
· 1934
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Quotes
- “Cantet, amat quod quisque: levant et carmina curas.”
- “Omnia tempus alit, tempus rapit: usus in arto est.”
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Works in European collections
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- Bogus name "Olympius"
- Works
- Didactic poetry
- The Eclogues
- The Praise of Hercules
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Marcus Aurelius 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).
==Bogus name "Olympius"== A bogus poet by the name of Olympius Nemesianus was mentioned in the Historia Augusta, where he was given authorship of two otherwise-unattested and probably imaginary works, Halieutica on fishing and Nautica on boating. It is likely that a gloss on the Historia Augusta noted the name "Cynegetica" in the margin in Greek letters, probably because the copyist recognized the name Nemesianus and wanted to use his limited knowledge of Greek; a later copyist moved it into the text of the Historia Augusta, and the name Olympius was conflated with the genuine Nemesianus.