AURELIUS OLYMPIUS, a Latin poet who was born at Carthage, and flourished about the year 281, under the emperor Carus, and his sons Carinus and Numerian: the last of which emperors was so fond of poetry, that he contested the glory with Nemesianus, who had written a poem upon fishing and maritime affairs. We have still remaining a poem of our author called Cyngegeticon, and four elegies: they were published by Paulus Manutius in 1538; by Barthelet in 1613; at Leyden in 1653; with the notes of Janus Vitius. Giraldi hath preserved a fragment of Nemesianus, which was communicated to him by Sanazarus, to whom we are obliged for our poet's works: for having found them written in Gothic characters, he procured them to be put into the Roman, and then sent them to Paulus Manutius. Although this poem hath acquired some reputation, it is greatly inferior to those of Oppian and Gratian upon the same subject; yet Nemesianus's style is natural enough, and has some degree of elegance. The world was so much possessed with an opinion of his poem in the eighth century, that it was read among the classics in the public schools, particularly in the time of Charlemagne, as appears from a letter of the celebrated Hincmar bishop of Rheims, to his nephew Hincmar of Laon.