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Whether she is the same as the Lycoris mentioned by Virgil, whose faithlessness he bewails, we cannot tell. No fragments of his remain, but the passionate nature of the man, and the epithet durior applied to his verse by Quintilian, makes it probable that he followed the older and more vigorous style of elegiac writing. Somewhat junior to him was DOMITIUS MARSUS who followed in the same track.
Hence it was suspected, that, while he was ill, and perhaps without his privacy, the accusations were in great measure forged by Macro, in consequence of his notorious enmity to Arruntius. Domitius therefore by preparing for his defence, and Marsus by seeming determined to famish, both protracted their lives.
His sour temper betrayed itself, not only in his disputes with the sophists opposed to him, whom he lashed on every occasion, but also towards his scholars, as Horace tells us, who calls him "a flogger;" and Domitius Marsus , who says of him: Si quos Orbilius ferula scuticaque cecidit. If those Orbilius with rod or ferule thrashed.
Thereafter Albucilla, who had been married to Satrius Secundus, him that revealed the conspiracy of Sejanus, and herself famous for many amours, was impeached of impious rites devised against the Prince. In the charge were involved, as her associates and adulterers, Cneius Domitius, Vibius Marsus, and Lucius Arruntius.
Boduoc, you will tomorrow take the whole of my band and descend to the plain, fall upon the town of Castanium at daybreak; the bands of Victor and Marsus will accompany you and will be also under your orders. My orders are strict, that no one is to be injured unless he resists. Tell the inhabitants that we wish them no harm.
It was also moved by Vibius Marsus, that Lentulus, to whom had fallen the province of Asia, should be attended by a Legate extraordinary, to supervise the building of the temple; and as Lentulus himself through modesty declined to choose one, several who had been Praetors were drawn by lot, and the lot fell upon Valerius Naso.
we infer that he began his career early; for he was certainly younger than Horace, though probably only by a few years, as he also received instruction from Orbilius. There is a fine epigram by Marsus lamenting the death of his two brother-poets and friends: "Te quoque Virgilio comitem non aequa, Tibulle, Mors invenem campos misit ad Elysios.
The ode addressed to him by Horace seems to hint at a foolish ambition to imitate Pindar. Besides these lesser known authors Horace knew, though he does not mention, the poets Ovid and Domitius Marsus; probably also Propertius. With Tibullus he was long on terms of friendship, and one epistle and one ode are addressed to him.
Vibius Marsus particularly summoned Piso, as a criminal, to Rome, there to make his defence: he answered with derision "that when the Praetor, who was to sit upon poisonings, had assigned a day to the accusers and the accused, he would attend."
'Sub rege Medo, under a Median King Marsus et Apulus, he being a Marsian and an Apulian. 'Who? The Median King? 'No, sir. The soldier of Crassus. Oblittus agrees with milesne Crassi, sir, volunteered too-hasty Beetle. 'Does it? It doesn't with me.
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