Grattius

Grattius Faliscus was a Roman poet who flourished during the life of Augustus (63 BC – AD 14). He is known as the author of Cynegeticon, a poem on hunting. Quotes Blandimenta vagae fugies novitatis. You are to shun the allurements of fleeting novelty. Cynegeticon, 114 (Tr. Duff) ——— Sed lubricus erratmos et ab expertis festinant usibus omnes. But slippery fashion goes its wandering round, and all men are in haste to discard usages which have been tried. Cynegeticon, 115 (Tr. Duff) Qtd. as an epigraph in John Evelyn, Tyrannus, or, The Mode, 2nd ed. (London: G. Bedel, and T. Collins, ... and J. Crook), title-page, with the variant error for errat: reproduced in Memoirs, 2nd ed., vol. 2 (London: Henry Colburn, 1819), p. 309 Omnia tela modi melius finxere salubres. All weapons have been the better fashioned by healthy moderation. Cynegeticon, 121 (Tr. Duff) Magnum opus et volucres quondam fecere sagittae. Once on a day great work was wrought by swift arrows. Cynegeticon, 126 (Tr. Duff) Mille canum patriae ductique ab origine moresquoique sua. Dogs belong to a thousand lands and they each have characteristics derived from their origin. Cynegeticon, 154 (Tr. Duff) Cf. Pseudo-Oppian, Cynegetica, I. 400 External links J. Wright Duff; Arnold M. Duff, Minor Latin Poets, vol. 2, Loeb Classical Library (1934), p. 143 John Henderson, "Going to the Dogs: Grattius and the Augustan Subject", Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, no. 47 (2001), pp. 1–22 Category:Poets from Rome Category:Latin authors