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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS<br />

AEMILIUS MACER<br />

LIFE<br />

b. in Verona (Serv. ad Eel. 5.1, identifying him with Mopsus), d. in Asia 16 B.C.<br />

(Jerome, Chron. arm. Abr. 2001). An acquaintance of Tibullus (Tib. 2.6.1).<br />

WORKS<br />

Didactic poems on birds, serpents <strong>and</strong> herbs (Ovid, Trist. 4.10.43), the last two possibly<br />

belonging to one work. Diomedes (GLK I 374.21) <strong>and</strong> Nonius (220.18 <strong>and</strong> 518.32)<br />

attest the title Ornithogonia; Charisius (GLK1 81.18) attests a Theriaka, in two books,<br />

as shown by Comm. Bern, ad Lucan 9.701. Dist. Cat. 2, praef. 2 is of dubious value for<br />

the De herbis. Boios has been claimed as source for Ornithogonia by G. Knaack, AnaUcta<br />

Alex<strong>and</strong>rino-Romana (Greifswald 1880) 11, <strong>and</strong> G. Lafaye, Z,es mdtamorphoses d'Ovide<br />

(Paris 1904) 43: ref. to pictas uolucres at Manil. 2.43 is probably to Boios, not Macer.<br />

Quint. 10.1.56 notes M.'s unsuccessful imitation of Nic<strong>and</strong>er (in his Theriaka), for<br />

which see also R. Unger, De Aemilio Macro Nic<strong>and</strong>ris imitatore (Friedl<strong>and</strong> 1845),<br />

Schneider's edition of Nic<strong>and</strong>er (Leipzig 1856) 74, Knaack (above), <strong>and</strong> K. P. Schulze,<br />

Rh.M. 53 (1898) 543. Quintilian calls his style humilis at 10.1.87.<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />

Fragments in FPL, 107—10. Discussions in Teuffel 11 22—3, Schanz—Hosius 11 164—5,<br />

Bardon 11 44—7.<br />

VARIUS RUFUS<br />

LIFE<br />

A contemporary of Virgil <strong>and</strong> Horace (Jerome, Chron. ann. Abr. 2000), but older than<br />

they (Virg. Eel. 9.35, bracketing him widi Republican poet Cinna), he introduced<br />

Horace to Maecenas (Hor. Sat. 1.6.55), an ^ ' s mentioned several times in the Satires<br />

(1.5.41 <strong>and</strong> 93, 1.9.23, 1.10.81, 2.8.21 <strong>and</strong> 63). Editor with Tucca of Virgil's Aeneid, on<br />

the author's death (Quint. 10.3.8, Donat. Vita Verg. 39, Jerome, Chron. above, Serv.<br />

praef.).<br />

WORKS<br />

De morte (title attested by Macr. Sat. 2.19.20, 6.1.39—40): most probably a didactic<br />

with Epicurean flavour (on V.'s philosophy see Quint. 6.3.78); appears to have<br />

attacked Antony. Some critics identify it with the forte epos of Hor. Sat. 1.10.81,<br />

changing its title to De morte Caesaris: but the preposition de implies didactic, <strong>and</strong> no<br />

862<br />

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