Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus

Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus (flourished c. ad 280) was a Roman poet born in Carthage who wrote pastoral and didactic poetry. Of his works there survive four eclogues and an incomplete poem on hunting (Cynegetica). Two small fragments on bird catching (De aucupio) are also generally attributed to him. The four eclogues are in the Virgilian tradition and are also influenced by Calpurnius. They are purely imitative and of conventional form and imagery, yet they...