The caseof Maximianand hisElegie della vecchiaia isperhaps uniquein the wholeof Latin literature.Meanwhile,you do not know, except forscatteredtracesin his verses,anysignificant detailof his life, that isthe exact periodof hisexistence, histrue home, his ownfull name.Above all,there is noclear adviceon the valueof thisliterary and poeticanthology ofpoemsthatis located in arhetorical traditionof the moststandardizedof theentireRoman literature: theelegyof love- with itsstrict alternationmetrichexameterandpentameter-which hasits golden agein the Augustan Ageand the earlyyears oftheTiberian(Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid).
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