Luxorius

flourished in Africa under the Vandal king Hilderic during the early part of the sixth century. Works

His name is attached to a series of eighty-nine short poems or epigrams in various metres, many of then coarse, all of them dull. The language and versification, however, show that the author must have been a man of education, well acquainted with the models of classical antiquity, and one or two of the pieces are curious, inasmuch as they prove that the irregularities of the clergy had already begun to afford a theme for satire.

Luxorius is one of the many poets to whom the charming Pervigilium Veneris has been ascribed, but assuredly none of his acknowledged productions are of such a stamp as to induce us to believe him capable of having created any thing so bright and graceful. Further Information

Burmann, Antholog. Lat. ii. p. 579, 3.27, 41, or n. 296-384, ed. Meyer. [W.R]

(also written Luxurius, and Lusorius). A Roman epigrammatic poet, who lived in Africa about the beginning of the sixth century A.D., during the Vandal domination. He sought to imitate Martial. We still possess eighty-eight of his epigrams, mostly in elegiac metre, which are often coarse and always dull. He also wrote a Vergilian cento, and versus serpentini. See the Poetae Latini Minores of Bährens, iv. 267, 331, and 386 foll.; and the monograph by Klapp, De Anthologiae Lat. Carminibus Nonnullis (Wandsbeck, 1874).