Sentius Augurinus
Sentius Augurinus was a Latin poet of ancient Rome who lived in the time of Pliny the Younger, that is, the 1st century CE.
He wrote short poems, such as epigrams and idylls, which he called poematia, and which were in the style of the poets Catullus and Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus, charming, tender, occasional satirical.[1] He was an intimate friend of the younger Pliny, whom he praised in his verses; and Pliny in return represented Augurinus as one of the finest of poets. One of his poems in praise of Pliny is preserved in a letter of the latter.[2]
He might be the same person as the Quintus Gellius Sentius Augurinus, governor of Macedonia under the emperor Hadrian.[3][4][5][6]
References
[edit]- ↑ Duff, John Wight; Fletcher, Geoffrey Bernard Abbott; Spawforth, Antony, eds. (2016). "Sentius Augurinus". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.5827. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
- ↑ Pliny the Younger, Epistles 4.27, 9.8
- ↑ CIL III, 586.
- ↑ PIR, vol. II, p. 115.
- ↑ Roller, Matthew (1998). "Pliny's Catullus: The Politics of Literary Appropriation". Transactions of the American Philological Association. 128. Johns Hopkins University Press: 282. doi:10.2307/284415. JSTOR 284415. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
- ↑ Johnson, William A. (2010). Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study of Elite Communities. Oxford University Press. p. 34. ISBN 9780199884209. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Augurinus, Sentius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 420.
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