Tiberianus was a late Latin writer and poet, surviving only in fragments, who experimented with various metrical schemes.
[1] An earlier candidate is however the prefect of Rome 303–4, Iunius Tiberianus.
[2] Four poems (and a fragmentary fifth on a sunset) are known to have been written by Tiberianus:[3] Spring Day [Amnis ibat]; an attack on the power of gold; a hymn; and a description of a dying bird.
[4] Tiberianus was influenced by Silver Age poets such as Ovid and Statius, and also by Titus Calpurnius Siculus, as well as by the prose of Apuleius.
[3] Read and quoted by Fulgentius and Augustine,[8] his metrical experiments may also have influenced such Christian poets as Hilary of Poitiers and Prudentius.