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:

*Sæpe suas volvures legit mihi grandior ævo, Quæque nocet serpens, 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