Una checca alla corte vandalica d’Africa (Lux. 298 R)

The paper containes an accurate reanalysis of the epigram 298 R, which has been often examined by scholars with unsatisfactory results, both in the exegesis of the single verses and in the interpretation of the whole poem. The author, in particular, analyses the numerous amphibological wordplays by Luxorius, and the exegesis of some words, referring to some poems of Vnius poetae sylloge, by another Carthaginian grammaticus of the same poetic circle. The author also contextualizes the poem in a changed cultural frame, characterized by the break of the balance between the exponents of Roman society and the Vandalic court, that Luxorius, mocking the spado regius, derides.