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Alpinus

a name which Horace (Sat. 1.10. 36) gives in ridicule to a bombastic poet. he probably means M. Furius Bibaculus. [BIBACULUS, M. FURIUS.]

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.