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

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