Flavius Felix (poet)
5th-century Roman poet
Flavius Felix (fl. c. AD 480) was a Latin poet of the 5th century, known for five poems in praise of the thermal baths built by the Vandal king Thrasamund (496–523).
Quotes
edit- Sic tibi florentes aequaeuo germine nati
indolis aetheriae sidera celsa petant,
sic priscos uincant atauos clarosque parentis
exsuperent meritis saeclaque longa gerant,
sic subolis numerum transcendat turba nepotum
nobilibusque iuges gaudia tanta toris:
ne sterilem praestes indigno munere Musam,
utque soles, largus carmina nostra foue,
imperiis ut nostra tuis seruire Thalia
possit et in melius personet icta chelys.- ?
- A.L. 216. Postulatio muneris ('To his Patron')
Bibliography
edit- Alexander Riese, ed. Anthologia Latina, vol. 1 (1869), no. 216
- H. W. Garrod, ed. The Oxford Book of Latin Verse (1912), no. 378