Nux
The title of an elegiac poem in 182 lines often ascribed to Ovid, and probably of a date
not much later than that poet. It voices the complaint of a nut-tree concerning ill-treatment
and the degeneracy of the times. It is based upon a poem in the Greek anthology
(
Anthol. Palat. ix. 3), and is written in an ornate but graceful style. It is
edited with a commentary by Lindemann
(Zittan, 1844); critical text in
Bährens,
Poetae Lat. Minores, i. 90
(Leipzig, 1886).