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See also: Verona, See also: Roman didactic poet, author of two poems, one on birds (Ornithogonia), the other on the See also: anti-dotes against the See also: poison of serpents (Theriaca), imitated from the See also: Greek poet See also: Nicander of See also: Colophon
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According to See also: Jerome, he died in 16 n.c
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It is possible that he wrote also a botanical See also: work
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The extant See also: hexameter poem De viribus (or virtutibus) herbarum, ascribed to See also: Macer, is a See also: medieval production by See also: Odo Magdunensis, a French physician
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Aemilius Macer must be distinguished from the Macer called Iliacus in the Ovidian See also: catalogue of poets, the author of an epic poem on the events preceding the opening of the Iliad
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The fact of his being addressed by Ovid in one of the epistles Ex Ponto shows that he was' alive long after Aemilius Macer
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He had been identified with the son or See also: grandson of See also: Theophanes of Mytilene,'the intimate friend of See also: Pompey
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See Ovid, Tristih,' iv. to, 43; Quintilian, Instit. x
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1, 56, 87; R
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Unger, De Macro Nicandei imitators (See also: Friedland, 1845); C
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P
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Schulze in Rheinisches Museum (1898), H. p
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541; for Macer Iliacus see Ovid, Ex Ponta, ii: to, 13, iv . 16, 6; Amores, ii . 18 . |
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