neoterici
Neoterĭci
and novelli. A name applied to the minor poets who sprang up in great numbers during and after the reign of Hadrian and who wrote pretty little poems on trifling themes of no great merit. See Diomedes in the Grammatici Latini (Keil), i. 514 foll.; and Schultz in Hermes, xxii. 274; and Leo, ib. xxiv. 294.