Possible Clues:

• One who wrote odes in a church or a cemetery
• 'Even Homer nods' writer
• He wrote 'Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods'
• Did the old poet greet humanity like this?
• 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' writer
• Roman poet; — Walpole
• From Rome, the poet greets the people
• A Roman author with a little house and a lot of descendants
• Sound as if one owed from him a greeting to the people
• Old Roman poet - it's a chore