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LAEVIUS (? c. 8o B.C.)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 64 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
LAEVIUS (? c. 8o B.C.) , a Latin poet of whom practically nothing is known. The earliest reference to him is perhaps in Suetonius (De grammaticis, 3), though it is not certain that the Laevius Milissus there referred to is the same person. Definite references do not occur before the 2nd
century
  (
Fronto
 , Ep. ad M. Caes. i. 3; Aulus Gellius, Noct. Att. ii. 24, xii. 10, xix. 9 ;
Apuleius
 , De magia, 30; Porphyrion, Ad Horat. carm. iii. 1, 2). Some sixty miscellaneous lines are preserved (see Bahrens, Fragm. poet. ram. pp. 287-293), from which it is difficult to see how ancient critics could have regarded him as the master of
Ovid
  or Catullus. Gellius and
Ausonius
  state that he composed an Erotopaegnia, and in other sources he is credited with Adonis,
Alcestis
 , Centauri,
Helena
 , Ino, Protesilaudamia, Sirenocirca, Phoenix, which may, however, be only the parts of the Erotopaegnia. They were not serious poems, but light and often licentious skits on the heroic myths.
See O. Ribbeck, Geschichte der romischen Dichtung, i.; H. de la Ville de Mirmont, Elude biographique et litteraire sur le poete Laevius (Paris, 1900), with
critical
  ed. of the fragments, and remarks on vocabulary and syntax; A. Weichert, Poetarum latinorum reliquiae (
Leipzig
 , 1830) ; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur (2nd ed.), pt. i. p. 163; W. Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. tr.), 150, 4; a convenient summary in F.Plessis, La Poesie latine (1909), PP. 139-142.


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