Anser

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

Anser, ĕris, m.,

a petulant and obscene poet ( Ov. Tr. 2, 435), a friend of the triumvir Antonius , who presented him with an estate at Falernum ( Cic. Phil. 13, 5). Acc. to Servius, Virgil makes a sportive allusion to him in Ecl. 9, 36: argutos inter strepere anser olores; cf.: ore canorus Anseris indocto carmine cessit olor, Prop. 3, 32, 84, and Weich. Poet. Lat. pp. 159-167.

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