person
Gaius Licinius Calvus
Calvus
also: Calvus
Orator and neoteric poet, friend of Catullus; here the limited repertoire of a fashionable poetaster who reads nothing but Calvus and Catullus.
Reading notes
- The Satires §1.10 but Calvus
Gaius Licinius Calvus, orator and neoteric poet, friend of Catullus; with Catullus, the whole reading-list of a shallow modish singer.