Macedónicus, a, um, and Macedonus, Of Macedonie.Macer Aemulius, An old Poet which was in Ouids time, who (as he saith) wrote of byrdes in verses, also of the vertue of hearbes. But it was not the Macer, whose workes wenowe haue, of the vertue of heardes, but rather he, whom the yonger Plinie prouoked to write something like vnto his vncle. Finallye, that little booke of hearbes, is righte profitable in diuerse places to be conned by hart of a young scholer which delightech in that matter, Notwithstanding the first Macer, wrote more eloquentlie, and is commended therfore of Ouintiliã. He wrote also of the battaile of Troy and of venemous beastes.
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