a friend of the triumvir M. Antonius, and one of the detractors of Virgil. Ovid calls him procax. (Verg. Ecl. 9.36; Serv. ad loc. et ad Ecl. 7.21; Prop. 2.25. 84; Ov. Tr. 2.435 ; Cic. Philipp. 13.5; Weichert, Poetar. Lat. Reliquiae, p. 160, &c., Lips. 1830.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890