'Cinna quoque his comes est, Cinnaque procacior Anser.' Servius sees an allusion to him in _Ecl._ 9, 36, 'Argutos inter strepere anser olores.' (_g_) _Domitius Marsus_. His epigram on Tibullus (see p. 186) shows that he was alive in B.C. 19; he was, however, dead when Ovid was exiled in A.D. 8. Ovid, _Ex Pont._ iv. 16, 3, 'Famaque post cineres maior venit; et mihi nomen tunc quoque, cum vivis adnumerarer, erat, cum foret et Marsus, magnique Rabirius oris, Iliacusque Macer sidereusque Pedo.' He was a member of Augustus' literary circle. Mart. viii. 56, 21, 'Quid Varios Marsosque loquar, ditataque vatum nomina, magnus erit quos numerare labor?' His works were: 1. _Cicuta_, a collection of epigrams, often referred to by Martial. Cf. ii. 71, 3, 'aut Marsi recitas aut scripta Catulli.' 2. _Amazonis_, an epic poem.[64] Mart. iv. 29, 7, 'Saepius in libro memoratur Persius uno quam levis in tota Marsus Amazonide.' 3. _Amores_ or _Elegiae_. Mart. vii. 29, 7, 'Et Maecenati, Maro cum cantaret Alexin, nota tamen Marsi fusca Melaenis erat.' 4. _Fabellae_. 5. _De Urbanitate_ (in prose). Quint. vi. 3, 102, 'Domitius Marsus, qui de urbanitate diligentissime scripsit.' (_h_) _Pupius_, a tragedian, sneered at by Hor. _Ep._ i. 1, 67, 'lacrimosa poemata Pupi.' (_i_) _C. Melissus_, a freedman of Maecenas, invented the _trabeata_, a variety of the _togata_. Sueton. _Gramm._ 21, 'Fecit et novum genus togatarum inscripsitque trabeatas.' TIBULLUS. (1) LIFE. Albius Tibullus (his praenomen was perhaps Aulus, which, from the abbreviation A. being followed by Albius, was lost in the MSS.) seems to have been born near Pedum in Latium. (1) Horace, in _Ep._ i. 4, 2, addressed to Tibullus, asks, 'Quid nunc te dicam facere in regione Pedana?' apparently referring to the 'sedes avitae' of Tibullus (Tibull. ii. 4, 53). (2) The Life contained in the best MSS., and probably to be attributed to Suetonius, calls him 'Albius Tibullus, eques Romanus' (codd. Paris. and Lips. 'regulis'). Bährens (_Tibullische Blätter_) holds that _Romanus_ is an erroneous correction of _regulis_, for which he proposes to read _R._ (= Romanus) _e Gabis_ (= Gabiis). Gabii was within a short distance of Pedum. The date of his birth can be fixed only by indirect evidence. (1) The Life says 'obiit adulescens,' and the epigram of Domitius Marsus, found in the best MSS., calls Tibullus 'iuvenis' at the time of his death, which must have occurred about the same time as Virgil's, in B.C. 19, 'Te quoque Vergilio comitem non aequa, Tibulle, mors iuvenem campos misit ad Elysios, ne foret aut elegis molles qui fleret amores aut caneret forti regia bella pede.' (2) Ovid (_Tr._ iv. 10, 53) says of Tibullus, 'Successor fuit hic tibi, Galle, Propertius illi.' Since Gallus was born B.C. 70, and Propertius about B.C. 49, the birth of Tibullus must have fallen between those years.