Possible Clues:

• A Roman author with a little house and a lot of descendants
• From Rome, the poet greets the people
• 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' writer
• 'Satires' author
• 'Even Homer nods' writer
• He wrote 'Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods'
• A Roman poet
• One who wrote odes in a church or a cemetery
• Did the old poet greet the people like this?
• - Walpole, eighteenth century English author