a Roman poet, whose real name has been almost supplanted by the epithet Faliscus, added by a modern commentator. He was a contemporary of Virgil and Ovid, and wrote a book on hunting called Cynegeticon Liber, which seems to have fallen wholly into oblivion before the time of Caracalla. At least, we find in the reign of that emperor the Greek Oppian writing on a cognate subject, and boasting of having struck out an entirely new path for himself. There is only one MS. of the Cynegetica extant, and even it is very corrupt. This, added to the arbitrary use of many individual words, the forced constructions, and a general haze that hangs over the whole poem, makes it very difficult to be understood. The work professes to describe the various kinds of game, the means to be employed for their pursuit and capture, the best breeds of horses and dogs, &c. The facts on which the poem is based are derived chiefly from Xenophon. The best editions of Gratius are those of Burmann and Wernsdorf. There is an English verse translation of the poem by Christopher Wase, London, 1654; and a German one by S. Perlet, Leipzig, 1826.