Anser
a friend of the triumvir M. Antonius, and one of the detractors of Virgil. Ovid calls him
procax. (
Verg. Ecl. 9.36; Serv.
ad loc. et
ad Ecl. 7.21;
Prop. 2.25. 84;
Ov. Tr. 2.435 ; Cic.
Philipp. 13.5; Weichert,
Poetar. Lat. Reliquiae, p. 160, &c., Lips. 1830.)