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Form: Marcus Aurelius Olympius |
of Carthage. A Roman poet famous in his own times, belonging to the end of the 3rd century A.D. He flourished under the emperor Carus and his sons (212-284). We possess from him the first 425 lines of a fairly elegant poem on the Chase (Cynegetica), and four eclogues, in which be has closely followed Calpurnius (q.v., 2). |
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