Louis Carrion (1547–1595) was a Flemish humanist and classical scholar. He is known for his precocious edition of the Argonauticon of Valerius Flaccus

Valerius Flaccus

Valerius Flaccus is the name of:*Gaius Valerius Flaccus , Latin poet at the time of Vespasian*a number of Roman political figures, including:*Lucius Valerius Flaccus *Lucius Valerius Flaccus...

, from 1565/6. This was printed from a manuscript now referred to as the Codex Carrionis, or C; which was later lost.Carrion's scholarship has regularly been challenged, ever since.

He is known too for commentary on Sallust

Sallust

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust , a Roman historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines...

 (1574), and work on Tertullian

Tertullian

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, the astrologer Censorinus

Censorinus

Censorinus, Roman grammarian and miscellaneous writer, flourished during the 3rd century AD.He was the author of a lost work De Accentibus and of an extant treatise De Die Natali, written in 238, and dedicated to his patron Quintus Caerellius as a birthday gift...

 (1583), and Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius , was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office...

 (1585, with Henry Estienne

Henry Estienne

Henri Estienne , also known as Henricus Stephanus, was a 16th-century French printer and classical scholar. He was the eldest son of Robert Estienne.-Biography:Estienne was born in Paris....

). He also published letters of Ogier de Busbecq.

Works

• In Valerii Flacci Setini Balbi Argonauticon libros octo castigationes (Antwerp, Plantinus, 1566)
• Antiquarum lectionum commentarii III. In quibus varia scriptorum veterum loca supplentur, corriguntur et illustrantur