Grattius

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Grattius, Roman poet, of the age of Augustus, was the author of Cynegetica, a poem on hunting, of which 541 hexameters remain.

He may have been a native of Falerii, and is sometimes referred to as "Grattius Faliscus", but this rests on the doubtful authority of a single lost manuscript. The only reference to him in any extant ancient writer is incidental (Ovid, Ex Ponto, iv.16.33). He describes various kinds of game, methods of hunting, and the best breeds of horses and dogs.

There are editions by R. Stern (1832); P.J. Enk (1918); and G. G. Curcio in Poeti Latini Minori (1902), with bibliography see also H. Schenkl, Zur Kritik des G. (1898). There is a translation by Christopher Wase (1654).

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• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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• Cynegeticon, Latin text and English translation at LacusCurtius