MACER, EMILIUS, an ancient Latin poet, was born at Verona, and flourished under Augustus Cæsar. Eusebius relates, that he died a few years after Virgil. Ovid speaks of a poem of his, on the nature and quality of birds, serpents, and herbs; which he says Macer being then very old had often read to him:
Sape suas volucres legit mihi grandior ævo,
Quaque nocet serpens, quæ juvat herba, Macer.
De Pontis, lib. iv. eieg. 10.
There is extant a poem upon the nature and power of herbs under Macer's name; but it is spurious. He also wrote
Maceration wrote a supplement to Homer, as Quintus Calaber did afterwards in Greek :
Machiavel.
Tu canis aeterno quicquid restabat Homero :
Ne careant summa Troica bella manu.
De Ponto, lib. ii. eleg. 10.