[Milton-L] Query on 6th century Latin author

[Jameela Lares]

A friend just sent me a link to a new book in German on the elegies of Maximian, who is claimed to have some traces in various later authors, including Milton.  I'm curious as to whether any work has been done in English on such a connection.

The link:  http://www.steiner-verlag.de/sachgebiete/altertumswissenschaften/altphilologie/reihen/view/titel/53365.html

I didn't get much further than the Wikipedia entry, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximianus_(poet), which looks fairly competent but makes no mention of Milton.  There's a Maximianus in Milton's History of Britain, but he's during Diocletian's rule.

Cheers,

Jameela Lares
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