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LUCIUS POMPONIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 58 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCIUS POMPONIUS  , called Bononiensis from his birthplace Bononia, Latin comic poet, flourished about 90 B.C . (or earlier) . He was the first to give an
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artistic form to the Atellanae Fabulae by arranging beforehand the details of the plot which had hitherto been
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left to. improvisation, and providing a written text . The fragments show fondness for alliteration and playing upon words, skill in the use of rustic and farcical language, and a considerable amount of obscenity . Fragments in O . Ribbeck, Scenicae romanorum poesis fragmenta (1897–1898); see Mommsen, Hist. of Rome (Eng. tr.), bk. iv. ch . 13; Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of
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Roman Literature (Eng. tr.), § 151 .

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