. "a poet , the friend of Virgil and Ovid , who wrote De Serpentibus et Volucribus (and perh. De Virtutibus Herbarum), of which nothing is extant" . "a poet , the friend of Virgil and Ovid , who wrote De Serpentibus et Volucribus (and perh. De Virtutibus Herbarum), of which nothing is extant" . .