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AEMILIUS MACER

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 230 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AEMILIUS See also:MACER  , of 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 . According to See also:Jerome, he died in 16 n.c . It is possible that he wrote also a botanical See also:work . The extant See also:hexameter poem De viribus (or virtutibus) herbarum, ascribed to See also:Macer, is a See also:medieval See also:production by See also:Odo Magdunensis, a See also:French physician . See also: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 . The fact of his being addressed by See also:Ovid in one of the epistles Ex Ponto shows that he was' alive See also:long after Aemilius Macer . He had been identified with the son or See also:grandson of See also:Theophanes of Mytilene,'the intimate friend of See also:Pompey . See Ovid, Tristih,' iv. to, 43; See also:Quintilian, Instit. x . 1, 56, 87; R . Unger, De Macro Nicandei imitators (See also:Friedland, 1845); C . P . Schulze in Rheinisches Museum (1898), H. p .

541; for Macer Iliacus see Ovid, Ex Ponta, ii: to, 13, iv . 16, 6; Amores, ii . 18 .

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