(Emilius), an ancient Latin poet, was born at Verona, and flourished under Augustus Caesar. 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:

*Sepe fusa volubres legit miti graminis axe, Quoque novit serpente, qua juvenis herba, Mater.* De Ponte, lib. iv. eleg. 10.

There is extant a poem upon the nature and power of herbs under Macer's name; but it is spurious. He also wrote a supplement to Homer, as Quintus Calaber did afterwards in Greek:

*Tu canis aeterno quisquid reglatbat Homero: Ni current summa Troiae bella manu.* De Ponte, lib. ii. eleg. 10.