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Gratius Faliscus or Grattius was a Roman poet of the age of Augustus (63 BC – 14 AD). He is known as the author of a ''Cynegeticon'', a poem on hunting. ==Life== The only reference to Grattius in any extant ancient writer is a passing reference in Ovid, ''Ex Ponto'':〔Ovid, ''Ex Ponto'', iv.16.33〕 :''Tityrus antiquas et erat qui pasceret herbas Aptaque venanti Gratius arma daret.'' Some lines by Manilius have been supposed to allude to Grattius, but the terms in which they are expressed〔Astron. 2.43〕 are too vague to warrant such a conclusion. According to Wernsdorf, who argued from the name, he must have been a slave or a freedman. The cognomen, or epithet, Faliscus, from which it has been inferred that he was a native of Falerii〔See ''e.g.'' 〕 was first introduced by Barth, on the authority of a manuscript which no one else ever saw, and probably originated in a forced interpretation of one of the lines in the poem, "At contra nostris imbellia lina Faliscis" (5.40). William Ramsay argued that in the context, "nostris" here denotes merely "Italian", in contradistinction to the various foreign tribes spoken of in the preceding verses. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grattius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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