Mimnermus

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

Mimnermus, i, m., = Μίμνερμος,

a Greek elegiac poet of Colophon, the inventor of the pentameter , Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 65; 2, 2, 101: Mimnermi versus, i. e. elegiac poetry , Prop. 1, 9, 11.