obtrectator

Two epigrams of twelve and fourteen lines respectively against an "obtrectator" of St. Augustine seem also to have been composed in the lifetime of the saint.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

He was a partisan of Antony, and from this fact, together with the possible allusion in the _Eclogues_, later grammarians discovered that he was, like Bavius and Maevius, unhappy bards only known from the contemptuous allusions of their betters, [34] an _obtrectator Virgilii_.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879