Canius

, a poet of Gades, contemporary with Martial. He was so naturally merry that he always laughed. Martial , bk. 1 , ltr. 62 .――A Roman knight who went to Sicily for his amusement, where he bought gardens well stocked with fish, which disappeared on the morrow. Cicero , bk. 3 , de Officiis , ch. 14 .