(Κόϊντος Σμυρναῖος), commonly called QUINTUS CALABER, from the circumstance that the first copy through which his poem became known was found in a convent at Otranto in Calabria, was the author of a poem in 14 books, entitled τὰ μεθʼ Ὅμηρον, or παραλειπόμενα Ὁμήρῳ.
Scarcely any thing is known of his personal history; but from the metrical and poetic characteristics of his poem, as compared with the school of Nonnus, it appears most probable that he lived towards the end of the fourth century after Christ. From a passage in his poem (12.308-313), it would seem that even in early youth he made trial of his poetic powers, while engaged in tending sheep near a temple of Artemis in the territory of Smyrna.
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