Albinovanus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Albĭnŏvānus, i, m., a Roman proper name.

I C. Pedo Albinovanus, a contemporary and friend of Ovid (v. Pont. 4, 10), an epic poet , of whose greater epic, which had for its subject the deeds of Germanicus, we have only a fragment remaining, under the title: De navigatione Germanici per Oceanum Septentrionalem, in Sen. Suas. 1, p. 11.—See Quint. 10, 1, 90; Crinit. Poët. Lat. c. 64; Bähr's Lit. Gesch. 83; 217 and 218; Weich. Poët. Lat. 382.—

II Celsus Albinovanus, a contemporary of Horace , to whom the latter addresses one of his epistles (Ep. 1, 8, v. Schmid. Einl.).