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Maevius

Works about

Poems

2. A person, who killed his brother in the civil war, and thus has become the subject of two beautiful elegiac poems.

Editions

These are printed in the Latin Anthology (2.131, 132. ed. Burmann, or Ep. 820, 821, ed. Meyer), and by Wernsdorf (Poet. Lat. Min. vol. iii. pp. 199, &c.).

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.