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PORFIRIUS, PUBLILIUS OPTATIANUS

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 102 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PORFIRIUS, PUBLILIUS OPTATIANUS , Latin poet, possibly a native of Africa, flourished during the 4th
century
  A.D. He has been identified with Pub]ilius Optatianus, who was prae fectus urbi (329 and 333), and is by some authorities included amongst the
Christian
  poets. For some reason he had been banished, but having addressed a
panegyric
  to the Emperor
Constantine
  the
Great
 , he was allowed to return. Twenty-eight poems are extant under his name, of which twenty were included in the
panegyric
 . They have no value except as curiosities and specimens of perverted ingenuity. Some of them are squares (the number of letters in each line being equal), certain letters being rubricated so as to form a
pattern
  or figure, and at the same time
special
  verses or maxims; others represent various objects (a syrinx, an organ, an altar); others have
special
  peculiarities in each line (number of words or letters) ; while the 28th poem (the versus anacyclici) may be read back-wards without any effect upon sense or metre. A complimentary
letter
  from the emperor and
letter
  of thanks from the author are also extant. The best edition of the poem is by L.
Muller
  (1877).
See also O. Seeck, " Das Leben des Dichters Porphyrius " in Rheinisches Museum (1908), lxiii. 267.


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