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LUCIUS AFRANIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 320 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCIUS
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AFRANIUS  ,
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Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 B.C . His comedies chiefly dealt with everyday subjects from Roman
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middle-class
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life, and he himself tells us that he borrowed freely from
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Menander and others . His
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style was vigorous and correct; his moral
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tone that of the
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period .
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Horace, Epp. ii . 1 . 57;
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Cicero,
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Brutus, 45, de Fin. i . 3;
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Quintilian x . I . 100; fragments, about 400 lines, in
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Ribbeck, Scaenicae Romanorum Poesis Fragmenta, i1 . (1898) .

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