EMILIIUS, 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:

Sapere suas volucres legit mihi grandior œvo, Quæque nocet serpent, quæ juvat herba, Macer. De Pontio, 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 MACER wrote a supplement to Homer, as Quintus Calaber did afterwards in Greek:

Tu canis aeterno quicquid refabat Homero: Ne careant summa Troica bella manu. De Ponto, lib. ii. eleg. 10.