Aulus Furius Antias

Furius Antias was an ancient Roman poet, born in Antium. Following William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, (1870), art. Bibaculus, his full name was Aulus Furius Antias and he was the poet Furius whose friendship with Quintus Lutatius Catulus, consul in 102 BC, is attested by Cicero (Brutus, ch. 35). Smith, Dictionary Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 18, 11, defends his neologisms against the critic Caesellius Vindex. Macrobius, Saturnalia, 6, 1, quotes several lines of Furius's Annales which would be copied by Virgil.