Possible Clues:

• Poet depicted in art alongside the Scythians
• Poet writing about primo donno?
• Roman author of 'Metamorphoses'
• Roman poet (Metamorphoses)
• But he didn't write The Moon and Sixpence before 1971!
• Peer of Vergil and Horace
• 'Fortune and love favor the brave' poet
• Author of the six-book poem 'Fasti'
• Well-versed Roman
• Roman poet who wrote the 'Metamorphoses'