The author of an elegy. Of the four surviving MSS., three gave no indication regarding the
author, but the fourth, which belonged to the monastery of St. Gall, bore the title
Versus Julii Sperati de Philomela. We know nothing whatsoever of this
personage, nor of the age to which he belongs, except that the piece in question was imitated
by Paulus Alvarus of Corduba, a monk of the ninth century. The lines will be found in
Wernsdorf, Poet. Lat. Minor. vol. vi. part ii. p. 403; comp. vol. vi.
part i. p. 255, and in Burmann, Anthol. Lat. 5.149, or No. 392 Meyer.
Works
Elegy in Praise of the Nightingale
We possess an elegy, extending to thirteen couplets, in praise of the nightingale.
Editions
This was first published by Pithou, and afterwards with greater care
by Goldastus (Opuscula Erot. et Amat. p. 74), who made use of four
MSS.