Nemesianus
Nĕmĕsĭānus, i, m.—M. Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus,
- a Roman poet, born in Carthage, who flourished in the latter part of the third century of the Christian era, Vop. Numer. 11, 2.
Nemesiānus, ī, m., vollst. M. Aurelius Olympius N., aus Karthago, röm. Dichter des 3. Jahrh. nach Chr., Vopisc. Numer. 11, 2. Vgl. W. Teuffel Gesch. der röm. Literat.5 § 386.
Nĕmĕsiānus, ī, m. , Némésien [poète bucolique, iii e s. ap. J.-C.] : Vop. Car. 11, 2.
Nemesiānus, Marcus Aurelius Olympius
, of Carthage. A Roman poet famous in his own times, belonging to the end of the third century A.D. He flourished under the emperor Carus and his sons (212-284). We possess by him the first 325 hexameter lines of a well-written poem on the chase (Cynegetica), and four eclogues, in which he has closely followed Calpurnius (q.v.). Editions by Stein (Leipzig, 1832), and by Bährens in his Poetae Latini Minores (Leipzig, 1879).