Nemesianus

Marcus Aurelius Nemesianus was a Roman poet thought to have been a native of Carthage and flourished about AD 283. According to the Historia Augusta, he was a popular poet at the court of the Roman emperor Carus.

Quotes

 * Cantet, amat quod quisque: levant et carmina curas.
 * Let each sing of what he loves: song too relieves love's pangs.
 * Ecloga, IV, 19 (tr. Duff & Duff)
 * The device of a refrain follows the examples in Theocritus, Idylls I and II, and Virgil, Eclogue VIII. It is effectively used in the trochaics of the Pervigilium Veneris: cras amet qui numquam amavit; quique amarit cras amet.


 * Omnia tempus alit, tempus rapit: usus in arto est.
 * Time nurtures all things, time snatches them away; enjoyment lies within narrow bounds.
 * Ecloga, IV, 32 (tr. Duff & Duff)