sail-tossing

Updated: May 8, 2025

Ovid often mentions this poem with admiration; he calls Varro the poet of the sail-tossing sea, says no age will be ignorant of his fame, and even thinks the ocean gods may have helped him to compose his song. Quintilian with better judgment notes his deficiency both in originality and copiousness, but allows him the merit of a careful translator.

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius