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TITUS QUINCTIUS ATTA

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 878 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TITUS QUINCTIUS See also:ATTA  , or QurxTiclus (d . 77 B.C.), See also:Roman See also:comedy writer, was, like Titinius and See also:Afranius, distinguished as a writer of fabulae togatae, See also:national comedies . He had the reputation of being a vivid delineator of See also:character, especially See also:female . He also seems to have published a collection of epigrams . The scanty fragments contain many archaisms, but are lively in See also:style . According to See also:Horace (Epistles, ii 1 . 79) the plays of See also:Atta were still put on the See also:stage in his See also:time . Aulus See also:Gellius vii . 9; fragments in Neukirch, De fabula togata Romanorum (1833) ; See also:Ribbeck, Comicorum Latinorum reliquiae (1855) .

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