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MARSUS, DOMITIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 784 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARSUS, DOMITIUS , Latin poet, the friend of See also:Virgil and See also:Tibullus, and contemporary of See also:Horace. He survived Tibullus (d. 19 B.c.), but was no longer alive when See also:Ovid wrote (c. A.D. 12) the See also:epistle from See also:Pontus (E Ponto, iv. 16) containing a See also:list of poets. He was the authoirof a collection of epigrams called Cicuta (" See also:hemlock " )I from their See also:bitter See also:sarcasm, and of a beautiful See also:epitaph on the See also:death of Tibullus; of elegiac poems, probably of an erotic See also:character; of an epic poem Amazonis; and of a See also:prose See also:work on wit (De urbanitate). See also:Martial often alludes to Marsus as one of his predecessors, but he is never mentioned by Horace, although a passage in the Odes (iv. 4, 19) is supposed to be an indirect allusion to the Amazonis (M. See also:Haupt, Opuscula, iii. 332). See J.

A. Weichert, Poetarum latinorum vitae et reliquiae (183o) ; R. Unger, De Dom. See also:

Marsi cicuta (See also:Friedland, 1861).

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