NEMESIANUS, MARCUS AURELIUS OLYMPIUS, a Latin bucolic poet, flourished at the court of the Emperor Carus towards the close of the third century, and is supposed, from the epithet "Carthaginiensis" generally attached to his name, to have been a native of Africa. In the poetical contests of that day he owned no superior except the young prince Numerianus. "He shone out," says Vopiscus, "adorned with all the crowns of victory." His bucolic poems were three; and under the several names of Cyngetica, Halieutica, and Nautica, treated of hunting, fishing, and aquatics. A fragment of the first of these, amounting to 325 hexameter verses, is the only authenticated production of Nemesianus that is extant. It contains instructions for the rearing of dogs and horses, and the forming of nets and other hunting apparatus. The best edition is that of Stern, 8vo, Halle, 1832. Wernsdorf, in his Latina Poetae Minores, argues, on grounds somewhat plausible, that the piece entitled Laudes Herculis, usually printed among the works of Claudian, belongs to Nemesianus. Four of the eclogues generally ascribed to T. Calpurnius Siculus are sometimes erroneously attributed to the same author.