Luxorius

Luxorius (or Luxurius) was a late antique Latin poet of the 6th century , who lived as a respected grammarian in North Africa , probably in Carthage , at the time of the Vandal rule under the rule of Hilderich and Gelimer .

From Luxorius, who apparently belonged to the senatorial class and held the rank of vir spectabilis , 89 epigrams, predominantly crude erotic content, have survived, which are handed down in the last book of the Anthologia Latina . He also wrote a Virgilcento , which has also come down to us in the Anthologia Latina . In his epigrams he makes use of numerous traditional meter measures , which, however, in the opinion of later philologists, he often does not handle masterfully. Errors in the use of long and short syllables are striking. It is unclear whether this is due to the local pronunciation of Latin of his time or whether he did not speak Latin as his mother tongue . The earlier common assumption that he was a vandal is now largely believed to be unlikely. After Gorippus , to whom he was clearly inferior as an artist, and alongside Fulgentius and Arator , Luxorius is nevertheless considered to be one of the most important Latin poets of the late late antiquity, whose work, despite its shortcomings, documents the continued existence of the ancient tradition of poetry into the 6th century .

A poet named Lisorius sat Heinz Happ with Luxorius same.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Happ: On the Lisorius question. In: ALMA, Bulletin du Cange. Vol. XXXII, 1962, pp. 189–225, (documents.irevues.inist.fr)

literature

• H. Happ: Luxurius. Text, commentary, research . Dissertation. Tübingen 1961. (Print version: Stuttgart, Teubner 1986, 2 volumes (collection of scientific commentaries))
• M. Giovini: Studi su Lussorio. Genova 2004.
• M. Rosenblum: Luxorius. A Latin poet among the Vandals. New York 1961.
• O. Schubert: Quaestiones de anthologia codicis Salmasiani l. de Luxurio. Dissertation. Leipzig 1875.