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.)
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.