Juventinus Albius Ovidius
Juventinus Albius Ovidius was the name of the author of thirty-five distichs titled Elegia de Philomela, containing a collection of those words which are supposed to express appropriately the sounds uttered by birds, quadrupeds, and other animals.[1] For example:
“ | Mus avidus mintrit, velox mustecula drindit,
Et grillus grillat, desticat inde sorex. |
” |
The age in which the author lived is quite unknown, but from the last couplet in the piece it would appear that he was a Christian. German philologist Gottfried Bernhardy attempted to prove from Spartianus that this and other trifles of a similar description were composed by the contemporaries of the emperor Geta, the son of Septimius Severus and the brother of Caracalla.[2][3][4]
References
- ↑ Ramsay, William (1867), "Juventinus Albius Ovidius", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 2, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 691
- ↑ Gottfried Bernhardy, Grundriss der Röm. Litt. p. 135
- ↑ Pieter Burman the Younger, Anthol. Lat. v. 143, or n. 233, ed. Meyer
- ↑ Wernsdorf, Poet. Lat. Minores, vol. vii. p. 178 and: p. 279
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "article name needed". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.