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

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