person
Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus
Calvus
also: Calvus, Calvo
Roman orator and neoteric poet (82–c. 47 BC), son of the historian Licinius Macer and a friend of Catullus; leader of the Atticist movement in oratory. In Fam. 15.21 Cicero explains to Trebonius that he praised Calvus's learned but underpowered talent partly to spur him on. Distinct from C. Licinius Macer the historian.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 7.24 §1 Calvus
C. Licinius Macer Calvus, the Atticist orator and neoteric poet (d. c. 47 BC), famed for savage invective verse. Cicero jokes that Tigellius is now wholly the 'property' of Calvus's lampooning tongue.
- Ad Familiares 15.21 §4 I sent that letter to Calvus
C. Licinius Macer Calvus, orator and neoteric poet (d. c. 47 BC) and leader of the Atticist movement; Cicero refers to a now-lost letter in which he had praised Calvus's talent, part of their debate over oratorical style.
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.4 §1 if Macer Licinius hesitated
C. Licinius Macer Calvus, the celebrated young orator and neoteric poet, who had a standing feud with Vatinius and prosecuted him more than once. Cicero calls him 'Macer Licinius' here.