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BIBACULUS, MARCUS FURIUS

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BIBACULUS, See also:MARCUS FURIUS , See also:Roman poet, flourished during the last See also:century of the See also:republic. According to See also:Jerome, he was See also:born at See also:Cremona in 103 B.C., and probably lived to a See also:great See also:age. He wrote satirical poems after the manner of See also:Catullus, whose bitterness he rivalled, according to See also:Quintilian (Instil. x. 1. 196), in his iambics. He even attacked See also:Augustus (and perhaps See also:Caesar), who treated the See also:matter with indifference. He was also author of See also:prose Lucubrationes and perhaps of an epic poem on Caesar's Gallic See also:wars (Pragmatia See also:Belli Gallici). See also:Otto See also:Ribbeck attributes to him one of the shorter poems usually assigned to See also:Virgil. It is doubtful whether he is the See also:person ridiculed by See also:Horace (Satires, ii. 5. 40) and whether he is identical with the turgidus Alpinus (Satires, i. ro. 36), the author of an Aethiopis dealing with the See also:life and See also:death of See also:Memnon and of a poem on the See also:Rhine.

Some critics, on the ground that Horace would not have ventured to attack so dangerous an adversary, assume the existence of a poet whose real name was Furius (or See also:

Cornelius) Alpinus. Bibaculus was ridiculed for his high-flown and exaggerated See also:style and manner of expression. See Weichert, " De M. Furio Bibaculo," in his Poetarum Latinorum Reliquiae (183o); fragments in L. Mailer's edition of Catullus in the Teubner See also:Series (187o).

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