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, 128 B ; 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, 186 B (147 K ); Norbert Guterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 117