person
Callimachus
also: Battiades
The Alexandrian poet (c. 305–240 BC), 'son of Battus,' whose Lock of Berenice Catullus translates as poem 66 and whose Aetia underlies poem 65.
Reading notes
- Carmina §65 son of Battus
Callimachus of Cyrene, 'descendant of Battus,' the Alexandrian poet whose work Catullus translates and adapts.