Born: c. 496 AD
Died: c. 534 AD
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Poet

Nationality: Ancient Rome
Executive summary: Roman epigrammatist

Luxorius, Roman writer of epigrams, lived in Africa during the reigns of the Vandal kings Thrasamund, Hilderic and Gelimer (AD 496-534). He speaks of his poor circumstances, but from the superscription clarissimus and spectabilis in one manuscript, he seems to have held a high official position. About a hundred epigrams by him in various metres (the elegiac predominating) have been preserved. They are after the manner of Martial, and many of them are coarse. They deal chiefly with the games of the circus and works of art, and the language shows the author to have been well acquainted with the legends and antiquities of the classical period of Rome. Luxorius also wrote on grammatical subjects. The epigrams are contained in the Anthologia Latina, edited by F. Bücheler and A. Riese (1894).

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