Of the poems about nineteen lines are extant. They included: (1) _ludicra_ (in hendecasyllables); (2) _epithalamia_; (3) _Io_; (4) _ad uxorem_; (5) _epigrammata_. For the last cf. Sueton. _Iul._ 73, 'C. Calvo post famosa epigrammata de reconciliatione per amicos agenti ultro ac prior scripsit.' (6) 'Calvi de aquae frigidae usu,' which forms the title of Martial xiv. 196, may have been a didactic poem. Other references to Calvus' poetry are: Ovid, _Trist._ ii. 431, 'Par fuit exigui similisque licentia Calvi, detexit variis qui sua furta modis'; Propert. iii. 34, 89, 'Haec etiam docti confessast pagina Calvi cum caneret miserae funera Quintiliae'; Hor. _Sat._ i. 10, 16, 'Illi, scripta quibus comoedia prisca viris est, hoc stabant, hoc sunt imitandi: quos neque pulcher Hermogenes umquam legit, neque simius iste nil praeter Calvum et doctus cantare Catullum.' (_d_) _P. Terentius Varro Atacinus_ was born B.C. 82 in Gallia Narbonensis near Atax (a river, not a town, as Jerome states). Jerome yr. Abr. 1935 = B.C. 82, 'P. Terentius Varro vico Atace in provincia Narbonensi nascitur; qui postea xxxv. annum agens Graecas litteras cum summo studio didicit.' Porphyr. ad Hor. _Sat._ i. 10, 46, 'Terentius Varro Narbonensis, qui Atacinus ab Atace fluvio dictus est.' Varro must have died before B.C. 35, when Horace, speaking of satire, wrote, _Sat._ i. 10, 46, 'Hoc erat, experto frustra Varrone Atacino atque quibusdam aliis melius quod scribere possem.' Varro's works were: 1. _Bellum Sequanicum_, probably an epic on Caesar's war with Ariovistus in B.C. 58. 2. _Saturae_, mentioned only in the above passage of Horace. 3. _Argonautae_, a translation from Apollonius Rhodius in four Books. Probus ad Verg. _Georg._ ii. 126, 'Varro qui quattuor libros de Argonautis edidit.' Cf. Sen. _Controv._ vii. 1, 27, 'Illos optimos versus Varronis (= Apoll. iii. 749-50), "Desierant latrare canes urbesque silebant; omnia noctis erant placida composta quiete." Solebat Ovidius de his versibus dicere, potuisse fieri longe meliores, si secundi versus ultima pars abscideretur et sic desineret "omnia noctis erant."'[40] Cf. also Quint. x. 1, 87; Ovid, _Am._ i. 15, 21; Stat. _Silv._ ii. 7, 77. 4. _Chorographia_, a geographical work, as the fragments show. 5. _Ephemeris_.--Serv. ad Verg. _Georg._ i. 375, 'Hic locus omnis de Varrone est; nam et Varro et Vergilius Aratum secuti sunt.' 6. _Elegies._--One line is given by Bährens. Cf. Propert. iii. 34, 85, 'Haec quoque perfecto ludebat Iasone Varro, Varro Leucadiae maxima flamma suae.' (_e_) _Publilius Syrus_ was a manumitted slave, a native of Syria, probably of Antioch. Jerome yr. Abr. 1974 = B.C. 43, 'Publilius mimographus natione Syrus Romae scaenam tenet.'