a poet in the time of the younger Pliny, who wrote short poems, such as epigrams, idylls,
&c., which he called poematia, and which were in the style of
Catullus and Calvus. He was an intimate friend of the younger Pliny, whom he praised in his
verses ; and Pliny in return represented Augurinus as one of the first of poets. One of his
poems in praise of Pliny is preserved in a letter of the latter. (