Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Corippus, Flavius Cresconius

An African scholar, who in the second half of the sixth century A.D. composed two historical epics—one in seven books (or eight), in celebration of the Libyan war of Iohannes Patricius (Iohannis, sive de Bellis Libycis); and the other on the exploits of Iustinus (A.D. 565-578), in four books (De Laudibus Iustini). The latter is in the worst manner of Byzantine flattery, but is written in a flowing style and in imitation of good models, such as Vergil and His works have been edited by I. Bekker, with those of Merobaudes (q.v.), in the Corp. Scriptorum Byzant. (Bonn, 1836). The most recent text is that of Petschenig (Berlin, 1886). On the style of Corippus, see the monograph by Amann, De Corippo Priorum Poetarum Lat. Imitatore (Oldenb. 1885).