les pecuariae’ in Bruttium inherited, as Cichorius suggests, from the poet . On his fish- ponds, Varro, RR 3, 17, 3; Pliny, N

he advantage of propinquity and duration. In Verona the father of the poet Catullus, no doubt a person of substance, was the

om Cremona (Caesar, BC 1, 24, 4). 4 Suetonius, Divus Iulius 73. The poet may have owed something to the patronage of the M

in fifty million denarii: it was worth much more. 6 Antonius and the poet Q. Cornificius divided Pompeius’ town-house. 7 Ot

g Caesar’s nominees may be reckoned the Hostilii from Cremona and the poet Helvius Cinna, tribune of the plebs in 44 B.C.4

dy of Italian ethnography and Italian dialects. 3 As the Paelignian poet said of his own tribe (Ovid, Amores 3, 15, 9): ‘q

philosophy of Hellas: he was the friend and patron of Philodemus, the poet and scholar. 1 Though elegant in his tastes, Piso

ullus for lampoons of unequalled vigour and indecency by inviting the poet to dinner. 3 Freedom of speech was an essential p

videretur. ’ 4 Ib. 11, 4. PageBook=>193 Calidus, famed as a poet , but only among his contemporaries; 1 and the age

Vita Attici 12, 4: according to Nepos, he was by far the most elegant poet since Lucretius and Catullus. Otherwise quite unk

n, BC 4, 115, 479 ff.; Dio 47, 47, 4; Plutarch, Brutus 47. 4 As the poet Lucan observed of Pharsalus (7, 862).. 5 Vellei

the coming of peace and glorious with relief and rejoicing, that the poet Virgil composed the most famous and the most enig

he assassins of Caesar; Q. Cornificius, another Caesarian, orator and poet , perished in Africa, commanding an army for the R

o in a letter to Cicero mentions ‘my friend, Cornelius Gallus’. 3 The poet may have served as an equestrian officer on the s

ntemporary politics and quickened to grander themes when the pastoral poet celebrated in mystical splendour the nuptials of

honour; and history was now in favour. Bibaculus and the Narbonensian poet P. Terentius Varro had sung of the campaigns of C

, the history of the Bellum Siculum as an epic narrative. 4 But the poet was reluctant, the patron too wise to insist. Yet

e appellation of ‘Italian’. Within a few years of Actium, a patriotic poet revolted at the mere thought that Roman soldiers,

he foreign queen, the ‘fatale monstrum’. ‘Nunc est bibendum’ sang the poet Horace, safe and subsidized in Rome. There rema

hunc saltern everso iuvenem succurrere saeclo ne prohibete. 5 The poet Virgil had brought to completion the four books o

temple of Quirinus: Caesar’s heir was identified with that god by the poet Virgil. 1 Not by conquest only but by the foundat

M. Aelius Gallus and P. Petronius, were dim figures compared with the poet who had commanded armies in the wars of the Revol

eans insensible, it was rumoured, to those notorious charms which the poet Horace has so candidly depicted. 5 Maecenas mig

ion with the house of Messalla (Tacitus, Ann. 12, 22). 4 Namely the poet C. Valgius Rufus, of unknown origin. The father-i

oman senator, a provincial governor: he preferred to be a fashionable poet and he paid for it in the end. Through the recalc

od of Augustus, Domitia and Agrippina the younger. 5 A kinsman of the poet Propertius entered the Senate. This man had marri

e Princeps, had their martial exploits commemorated by a contemporary poet . 4 The kingdom of Noricum was annexed about the

n in their place: the name of Livia is never mentioned by an official poet like Horace. The precaution seems excessive. In

me now required was men like those of old, and ancient virtue. As the poet had put it long ago, moribus antiquis res stat

tibus et bonis. 1 But that was not enough, even in the Claudii: the poet proceeds, doctrina sed vim promovet insitam, re

reedmen (CIL XI, 600: Forum Livi). PageBook=>452 The patriotic poet might deplore the seizure of plough-land for prin

PageBook=>462 That did not matter. The New State had its lyric poet , technically superb. Personal misfortune and poli

y and more naturally came the moral, rustic and patriotic vein to the poet Virgil. The Georgics completed (c. 30 B.C.), Virg

ue. The story of the first days of the city, established as the old poet recorded ‘augusto augurio’, called for a consecra

t;466 Augustus was singularly fortunate in discovering for his epic poet of Italy a man whose verse and sentiments harmoni

Propertius’ distaste for war was well- founded. He claimed to be the poet of love and of peace: pacis amor deus est, pace

een despoiled of property during the Civil Wars. 6 None the less, the poet had eminent connexions, the Aelii Galli, and infl

r a corrupter of youth. He made the conventional excuse of the erotic poet his page may be scabrous, but his life is chaste:

Corinna is literature, a composite or rather an imaginary figure. The poet himself, who had married three times, was not unh

nd achieved a nobler repute than to be known as the home of an erotic poet . Augustus did not forget. It was in vain that Ovi

e complicity on the part of Ovid; the mysterious mistake to which the poet refers was probably trivial enough. 2 But Augustu

136 ff.). ‘ 2 Tristia 2, 207: ‘duo crimina, carmen et error. ’ The poet is very discreet about the precise nature of the

cy. Messalla vied with Pollio as a patron of letters. When a mediocre poet from Corduba delivered in his house a lame panegy

511. Ahenobarbus, see Domitius, Alba Longa, 84. Albius Tibullus, poet , 460. Aletrium, 360. Aleuadae, of Larisa, 83.

nona, 37, 339, 357, 403. Antigonus, King of Judaea, 223. Antipater, poet from Thessalonica, 460. Antipater, of Derbe, 259.

12; as a diplomat, 165, 180, 217, 245; as a barrister, 193, 483; as a poet , 252; his letters quoted, 6; Horace’s Ode quoted,

437. Cornelius Gallus, C, from Forum Julii, origin of, 75, 79; as a poet , 252; his mistress, 252; his career, 253, 355; in

ipio Asiaticus, P. (cos. suff. A.D. 68), 497. Cornelius Severus, epic poet , 253. Cornelius Sisenna, his daughter marries t

icius, Q., Caesarian partisan, 63, 76; in Africa, 110, 189, 213; as a poet , 251. Corruption, electoral, 12, 13, 25, 33, 34

19, 85. Fundi, 358. Furii, 18, 377, 497. Furius Bibaculus, M., poet , 251, 253. Furius Camillus, M. (cos. A.D. 8), 3

ibe, 75. Helvius, of Formiae, 27. Helvius Cinna, C, Caesarian and poet , 79, 251. Heracles, 263. Herennius, M. (cos. 93

si, 22, 424, 496 f. Licinii Luculli, 21, 492. Licinius Calvus, C, poet and orator, 63, 245, 246, 251. Licinius Crassus,

dons latus clavus, 363; favoured by Paullus Fabius Maximus, 460; as a poet , 467 f.; his exile, 468. Ovidius Ventrio, L., d

bius. Quirinius, see Sulpicius. PageBook=>561 Rabirius, epic poet , 488 f. Rabirius Postumus, C., financier, his i

330; ? legate of Syria, 334, 338. Terentius Varro, P., Narbonensian, poet , 253. Terentius Varro Lucullus, M. (cos. 73 B.C

D. (cos. 11, A.D. 46), from Vienna, 79, 502. Valerius Cato, Cisalpine poet , 251. Valerius Catullus, C., his origin, 74, 25

s Catullus, C., his origin, 74, 251; relations with Caesar, 152; as a poet , 251, 460, 461; his friends, 63, 269. Valerius

Varius Geminus, Q., first Paelignian senator, 363. Varius Rufus, L., poet , 225, 254. Varro, see Terentius. Varro, legat