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• LUCIUS

LUCIUS See also:

• ACCIUS
• LUCIUS ACCIUS

ACCIUS  , See also:

• ROMAN

Roman tragic poet, the son of a freedman, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• PISAURUM (mod. Pesaro, q.v.)

Pisaurum in See also:

• UMBRIA
• UMBRIA ('Opj3pucrl)

Umbria, in 170 B.C . The See also:

• YEAR

year of his See also:

• DEATH

death is unknown, but he must have lived to a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, since See also:

• CICERO

Cicero (See also:

• BRUTUS (originally an adjective meaning " heavy," "stupid," kindred with Gr. aap(s, cf. Eng. " brute," " brutal")

Brutus, 28) speaks of having conversed with him on See also:

• LITERARY

literary matters . He was a prolific writer and enjoyed a very high reputation (See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace, Epistles, ii . 1, 56; Cicero, See also:

• PRO

Pro Plancio, 24) . The titles and considerable fragments (about 700 lines) of some fifty plays have been preserved . Most of these were See also:

• FREE

free See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations from the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek, his favourite subjects being the legends of the Trojan See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war and the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house of See also:

• PELOPS

Pelops . The See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• HISTORY

history, however, furnished the theme of the Brutus and See also:

• DECIUS, GAIUS MESSIUS QUINTUS TRAJANUS (2017-251)

Decius, —the See also:

• EXPULSION (Lat. expulsio, from expellere)

expulsion of the Tarquins and the self-See also:

• SACRIFICE (from Lat. sacrificium; sacer, holy, and facere, to make)

sacrifice of Publius Decius See also:

• MUS

Mus the younger . The fragments are written in vigorous See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language and show a lively See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of description . See also:

• ACCIUS
• ACCIUS, LUCIUS

Accius. wrote other See also:

• WORKS

works of a literary See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character: Didascalicon and Pragmaticon libri, See also:

• TREATISES

treatises in See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse on the history of Greek and Roman See also:

• POETRY

poetry, and dramatic See also:

• ART

art in particular; Parerga and Praxidica (perhaps identical) on See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture; and an Annales . He also introduced innovations in See also:

• ORTHOGRAPHY (from Gr. Opeoc, correct, right or straight, and yp&cbecv, to write)

orthography and See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar . See See also:

• BOISSIER, MARIE LOUIS ANTOINE GASTON (1823—1908)

Boissier, Le Poete Accius, 1856; L . See also:

• MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
• MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
• MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
• MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
• MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
• MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
• MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
• MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
• MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
• MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)

Muller, De Accii fabulis Disputatio (189o) ; See also:

• RIBBECK, JOHANN CARL OTTO (1827-1898)

Ribbeck, Geschichte der romischen Dichtung (1892) ; See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of the tragic fragments by Ribbeck (1897), of the others by Bahrens (1886); Plessis, Poesie latine (1909) .