ELPIDIO RUSTICO. — Poet of the 6th century, belonging to the family of the Rustici, in Italy.
He wrote a Carmen de Christi beneficiis and 24 Tristichs under the title Historiae testamenti veteris et novi, explanations of works of art in the church, like the Dittachoson of Prudence. The manuscript used by G. Fabricius in his first edition has not been found. Reprint of the original edition in PL 62, 543–48.
BIBL.: M. Manitius, Geschichte der christlich-lateinischen Poesie, Stuttgart 1801, p. 379 ff.; Schanz, IV, II, p. 389 ff. Erik Peterson