MAXIMIANUS  , a Latin elegiac poet who flourished during the 6th

century A.D . He was an Etruscan by birth, and spent his youth at Rome, where he enjoyed a great reputation as an orator . At an advanced age he was sent on an important mission to the East, perhaps by Theodoric, if he is the Maximianus to whom that monarch addressed a letter preserved in Cassiodorus (Variarum, i . 21) . The six elegies extant under his name, written in old age, in which he laments the loss of his youth, contain descriptions of various amours . They show the author's familiarity with the best writers of the Augustan age . Editions by J . C . Wernsdorf, Poetae latini minores, vi . ; E . Bahrens, Poetae latini minores, v.; M . Petschenig (189o), in C .

F . Ascherson's Berliner Sludien, xi.; R .

Webster (Princeton, 19oI ; see Classical Review, Oct . 1901), with introduction and commentary; see also Robinson Ellis in American Journal of Philology, v . (1884) and Teuffel-Schwabe, Ilist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans.), § 49o . There is an English version (as from Cornelius Gallus), by Hovenden Walker (1689), under the title of The Impotent Lover .