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ACCIUS, LUCIUS

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 114 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ACCIUS, LUCIUS , Roman tragic poet, the son of a freedman, was born at
Pisaurum
  in Umbria, in 170 B.C. The year of his death is unknown, but he must have lived to a
great
  age, since Cicero (Brutus, 28) speaks of having conversed with him on literary matters. He was a prolific writer and enjoyed a very high reputation (
Horace
 , Epistles, ii. 1, 56; Cicero, Pro Plancio, 24). The titles and considerable fragments (about 700 lines) of some fifty plays have been preserved. Most of these were free translations from the Greek, his favourite subjects being the legends of the Trojan war and the
house
  of Pelops. The national history, however, furnished the theme of the Brutus and Decius, the expulsion of the Tarquins and the self-sacrifice of Publius Decius Mus the younger. The fragments are written in vigorous language and show a lively power of description.
Accius. wrote other works of a literary
character
 : Didascalicon and Pragmaticon libri,
treatises
  in verse on the history of Greek and Roman poetry, and dramatic art in particular; Parerga and Praxidica (perhaps identical) on
agriculture
 ; and an Annales. He also introduced innovations in orthography and grammar.
See Boissier, Le Poete Accius, 1856; L. Muller, De Accii fabulis Disputatio (189o) ; Ribbeck, Geschichte der romischen Dichtung (1892) ; editions of the tragic fragments by Ribbeck (1897), of the others by Bahrens (1886); Plessis, Poesie latine (1909).


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