I was listening to Garbage - the band - which brought to mind, the Late Antique style of art. Curtis Yarvin didn't think much of it, at least not in Latin; I suspect he'd not appreciate Syriac either. What we are seeing, in Symmachus and for that matter in Claudian, is the Jeweled Style.
Virgil had an intertext. This intertext was in Greek. His Latin readers would know the overall story. The likes of Ausonius by contrast lived later than Virgil, and were inhabiting a more Latin West. Such would lift passages from Latin poets; say, from Catullus. These are Member-Berries, as a mature satirist would call them.
The Late-Antique poets are barely known, even after Peter Brown's cheerleading of "Late Antiquity". I suspect Yarvin and Cahill wouldn't even mention them were it not for Michael Roberts' 1989 book on the topic. Late-Antique Latin literature doesn't always have the critical-editions we get from, oh, Tacitus. Even the Latin Josephus isn't up to par. So Roberts had to deal with bare manuscripts and, if fortunate, JP Migne.
Cillian O'Hogan has a good précis (pdf); also lately is a collection A late antique poetics?: The Jeweled Style revisited, which is reviewed in Spanish.
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