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Many Roman writers seem to have composed epigrams, including Domitius Marsus, whose collection Cicuta (now lost) was named after the poisonous plant Cicuta for its biting wit, and Lucan, more famous for his epic Pharsalia. Authors whose epigrams survive include Catullus, who wrote both invectives and love epigrams – his poem 85 is one of the ...
One of the epigrams attributed to him on the authority of Maximus Planudes is a eulogy on the celebrated Hypatia, daughter of Theon of Alexandria, whose death took place in 415. Another was, according to a scholium in the Palatine Manuscript (the most important source for our knowledge of Greek epigram), written in the reign of the joint ...
In Book X of his Epigrams, composed between 95 and 98, he mentions celebrating his fifty-seventh birthday; hence he was born during March 38, 39, 40 or 41 AD (Mart. 10. 24. 1), [3] under Caligula or Claudius. Martial's name seems to imply that he was born a Roman citizen.
Julia Balbilla (Greek: Ἰουλία Βαλβίλλα, AD 72 – after AD 130) was a Roman noble woman and poet. [1] Whilst in Thebes, touring Egypt as part of the imperial court of Hadrian, she inscribed three epigrams which have survived. [2]
Leonidas informs us that he was born on the banks of the Nile, [3] whence he went to Rome, [4] and there taught grammar for a long time without attracting any notice, but ultimately he became very popular, and obtained the patronage of the imperial family. [5]
Tullia, villainous daughter of Servius Tullius, the sixth Roman king; Tullia - daughter of Cicero; Tullus Hostilius - king; Quintus Marcius Turbo - official; Turia - wife of Quintus Lucretius Vespillo, consul; Turnus - two; legendary hero and satirist; Sextus Turpilius - writer; Turrianus Gracilis - writer; Clodius Turrinus - two rhetoricians ...
Cornificia belongs to the last generation of the Roman Republic. [1] The daughter of Quintus Cornificius and the sister of the poet, praetor and augur Cornificius, Cornificia married a man called Camerius. Jane Stevenson has suggested that this may be the same Camerius who was a friend of the poet Catullus, mentioned in his poem 55. [1]
The Epigrams are thought to antedate the Pseudo-Herodotian Life of Homer which was apparently written around the epigrams to create appropriate context. Epigram III on Midas of Larissa has also been attributed to Cleobulus of Lindus , who was considered to be one of the Seven Sages of Greece .