"Hortus, quo faciles fluunt Napaeae, quo ludunt Dryades choro uirente, quo fouet teneras Diana Nymphas; quo Venus roseos recondit artus, quo fessus teretes Cupido flammas suspensis reficit puer pharetris, quo ferunt se Heliconides puellae; cui numquam minus est amoena frondis, cui semper redolent amoma uerni, cui fons perspicuis tener fluentis muscoso riguus salit meatu, quo dulcis auium canor resultans quidquid per Tyrias refertur urbis, hoc uno famulans loco subaptat."
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A.L. 332. De laude horti Eugeti ('The Garden of Eugetus')
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Luxorius (poet)
Luxorius was an ancient Roman poet and writer of epigrams who lived in Carthage, Africa during the last years of the Vandal rule in the 6th century, under the reign of the Vandal Kings Thrasamund, Hilderic, and Gelimer (AD 496–534). He greatly admired the notable Roman author Martial, whom he used as a model when composing his works. Luxorius's writings served as a bridge between the end of the classical period and the beginning of medieval Latin.
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