neoterics

Noun

neoteric (plural neoterics)

1. A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
   • Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise., Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.140
2. Someone with new or modern ideas.
3. (historical) any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.

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