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MAXIMIANUS , a Latin elegiac poet who flourished during the 6th See also:century A.D . He was an See also:Etruscan by See also:birth, and spent his youth at See also:Rome, where he enjoyed a See also:great reputation as an orator . At an advanced See also:age he was sent on an important See also:mission to the See also:East, perhaps by See also:Theodoric, if he is the Maximianus to whom that monarch addressed a See also:letter preserved in See also: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 . See also:Editions by J . C . Wernsdorf, Poetae See also:latini minores, vi . ; E . Bahrens, Poetae latini minores, v.; M . Petschenig (189o), in C .
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