Accius
[ ak-shee-uhs ]
noun
Lucius, c170–c90 b.c., Roman poet and prose writer.
- Also Attius.
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Horace applies the epithet 'altus,' Ovid that of 'animosus' to Accius.
The Roman Poets of the Republic | William Young SellarTragedy long continued to flourish after Accius, but its vitality was gone.
Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman | Frank Justus MillerThe following passage from the Argonaut of Accius shows this to a marked degree.
Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman | Frank Justus MillerFor more than a generation after the death of Accius and Lucilius, no new poet of any eminence appeared at Rome.
The Roman Poets of the Republic | William Young SellarThere are passages of the same spirit to be found among the fragments of Pacuvius and Accius.
The Roman Poets of the Republic | William Young Sellar
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