Maximianus (poet)

Maximianus or Maximian (sometimes referred to as Maximianus Etruscus) was a Latin elegiac poet of the sixth century AD.

Quotes

• Permissum fit vile nefas, fit languidus ardour
  • Wicked permission made it vile, and passion became weak.
  • (Falsely attributed to Cornelius Gallus), Elegies, iii, 77. Edited by Richard Webster, The Elegies of Maximianus (The Princeton Press, 1900) p. 42. Translated by William F. Hodapp, The Figure of Minerva in Medieval Literature (D. S. Brewer, 2019) ch. 6, p. 219. Compare: Ovid, Amores, ii, 19, 3; iii, 4, 17,25 · Petronius, Satyricon, 93 · Montaigne, Essais, ii, ch. 15
  • Other translations of the first clause:
  • Things permitted we despise.
    • Samson Lennard, translating Pierre Charron, Of Wisdome (1670) bk. 1, ch. 17, p. 65
  • A thing forbidden becomes little thought of, when it is allowed.
    • Craufurd Tait Ramage, Beautiful Thoughts from Latin Authors, 2nd ed. (1869) p. 644
  • The forbidden thing loses its value when it is allowed.
    • John Devoe Belton, A Literary Manual of Foreign Quotations (1891) pp. 170–1
  • Permitted sin loses its value.
    • W. Francis H. King, Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904) p. 222, no. 1725

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Maximianus (poet) on Wikipedia