Ībis

Ībis, said to be the title of an abusive poem by Callimachus, addressed to a certain ‘Ibis’ who was supposed to have been the poet Apollonius Rhodius. The poem has not survived. The Latin poet Ovid, while in exile at Tomis, also wrote a poem, in elegiacs, with this name, in the form of a curse directed at an unknown enemy, in which he expresses indebtedness to Callimachus' ‘brief poem’. Ovid's poem is full of abstruse mythological learning.