Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus

Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus (28 May 82 – c. 46 BC) was an orator and poet of ancient Rome.

Quotes

W. Morel and K. Büchner, Fragmenta Poetarum Latinorum, ed. J. Blänsdorf (De Gruyter, 2011)

• A virgo infelix, herbis pasceris amaris.
  • Ah! unfortunate girl, you graze on bitter grass.
  • Fragment of Io, quoted by Servius Danielis, on Eclogue 6, 47; M. R. Gale, "The Shield of Turnus ('Aeneid' 7.783-92)", Greece & Rome, vol. 44, no. 2 (October 1997), p. 191 (note); see also: Richard F. Thomas, "Theocritus, Calvus, and Eclogue 6", Classical Philology, vol. 74, no. 4 (1979), pp. 337–39

• Cum iam fulva cinis fuero ...
  • When I shall soon be yellow ash ...
  • Fragment of Quintilia, quoted by Charisius, 128B; Julia Haig Gaisser, Catullus (Wiley, 2009), Ch. 1, p. 15

• Lilium, vaga candido
  nympha quod secet ungui.
  • A lily that a wandering nymph will cut with her shiny fingernail.
  • Fragment of Epithalamia, quoted by Charisius, 186B (147K); Norbert Guterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 117