protovates

protovates [protos < πρῶτος+CL vates] , foremost or chief poet (as title, here quoted iron.). 1521 dic mihi magister in artibus in utopia create, dic mihi o ~es Anglie [sc. Roberto Whitinton], quale hoc Latinum moribus vel mores approbatis. sed tua stultitia fatigat solem (W. Horman Antibossicon) EETS CLXXXVII xliii.