LUXORIUS

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LUXORIUS ,

Roman

ROMAN

writer of epigrams, lived in Africa during the reigns of the Vandal

kings

KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

Thrasamund, Hilderic and Gelimer (A.D. 496-534). He speaks of his poor circumstances, but from the superscription clarissimus and spectabilis in one MS., he seems to have held a high

official

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

position. About a hundred epigrams by him in various metres (the elegiac pre-dominating) have been preserved. They are after the manner of Martial, and many of them are coarse. They deal chiefly with the

games

GAMES, CLASSICAL

of the

circus

CIRCUS (Lat. circus, Gr. Kipeos or Kptxot, a
ring
- RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra,
  wheel
  - WHEEL (0. Eng. hweol, hweohl, &c., cognate with Icel. hjol, Dan. hiul, the Indo-European root is seen in Sanskrit chakra, Gr. r in Aos, circle, whence " cycle ")
  - WHEEL, BREAKING ON THE
  , circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f
or' circle; probably " circus " and "
ring
- RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra,
  wheel
  - WHEEL (0. Eng. hweol, hweohl, &c., cognate with Icel. hjol, Dan. hiul, the Indo-European root is seen in Sanskrit chakra, Gr. r in Aos, circle, whence " cycle ")
  - WHEEL, BREAKING ON THE
  , circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f
" are of the same origin)

and works of art, and the language shows the author to have been well acquainted with the legends and antiquities of the classical period of Rome.
Luxorius also wrote on grammatical subjects (see R.

Ellis

Journal

JOURNAL
JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

of Philology, viii., 1879). The epigrams are contained in the Anthologia

Latina

LATINA, VIA

, edited by F. Biicheler and A. Riese (1894).

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