Lacedaemonian, sc. Alcman, circa 650 b.c.
Cean, sc. Simonides, circa 520 b.c.
Lesbian, sc. Sappho, circa 600 b.c.
Aedituus, Porcius, Catulus, erotic epigrammatists of the Republican period, 130-100 b.c. The latter was Marius' colleague in the Cimbrian wars.
Solon. The line ascribed to Solon is almost too gross in the original to be genuine.
Diogenes, the founder of the Cynic school (died 324 b.c.), wrote 'concerning marriage and the begetting of children' in an erotic fashion. Diog. Laert. vi. 2. 12.
Zeno of Citium, founder of the Stoic school (died 264 b.c.), wrote an 'art of love'. Diog. Laert. vii. 21. 29.
[Chapter 10.] Ticidas, an erotic poet, contemporary with Catullus and, like him, belonging to the Alexandrian school.
Lucilius, the first of Rome's great satirists (148-103 b.c.), famous for the extraordinary vigour with which he lashed the vices of the age. The allusion in the present passage is unknown, though a fragment is preserved containing the name of Macedo and possibly also of Gentius (cp. Baehrens, Fragm. Poet. Rom., p. 168).
the Mantuan poet. Vergil, Ecl. ii.