In 1654 Christopher Wase expressed in the notes to his English verse translation of Grattius’ Cynegetica—the first in English—the hope that Grattius might be ‘drawn forth’ from obscurity and ‘like some refulgent starre, after long disappearance, raise up into our Hemisphere his head encircled with its native lusture’ (Wase, pp. 2, 4). After Grattius’ apparent near-eclipse among his contemporaries (pp. 3-4)—the only (brief) reference to our poet appears in Ovid’s Pont. 4.16.34—Wase’s wish for Grattius’ resurgence might have been granted for a time in the aftermath of his ‘discovery’ (see Moul, pp. 215-34). But the same hope is repeated in 2017 in the book under review, suggesting that the translation did not have the effect that Wase looked for. The aims of the volume include paving the way for further studies of Grattius and raising his profile with a wider audience (p.1), as well as showing that ‘[Grattius’] poetry is as allusive as other Latin poems’ (Whitlach, 180). Grattius’ 541-verse didactic poem on hunting with dogs has been relegated to the sidelines of Latin Didactic studies for too long, Steven Green tells us; Giulia Fanti repeats (p. 61) Green’s contention, assuring us that the Cynegetica is arguably ‘the most overlooked and underappreciated work of the Augustan age’.