This author was a student of the Spanish orator Porcius Latro, but reportedly found him to be a poor model, so he joined the "Asiatic school" of Arellius Fuscus.
This author was a student of the Spanish orator Porcius Latro, but reportedly found him to be a poor model, so he joined the "Asiatic school" of Arellius Fuscus. Spuriously attributed works include his poems Halieutica and Nux, while only two lines survive of his tragedy Medea. He claimed in the dedication to one of his works that Cupid stole a foot from his hexameters to make them elegiac. A member of the poetic circle of Valerius Messalla, his other texts include a fragmentary hundred-line poem on cosmetics. He spent the last years of his life at Tomis in Thrace where he wrote the Epistulae Ex Ponto. He attributed that exile to a "Carmen et error" in his Tristia. Also the author of a poetic depiction of the Roman calendar, the Fasti, his elegiac works include the Cures for Love and an ancient manual for picking up women. FTP, name this Roman author of the Ars Amatoria and the Amores.
This author was a student of the Spanish orator Porcius Latro, but reportedly found him to be a poor model, so he joined the "Asiatic school" of Arellius Fuscus.
Publius Ovidius Naso