Accius

[ ak-shee-uhs ]

noun

1. Lucius, c170–c90 b.c., Roman poet and prose writer.

Example Sentences

Horace applies the epithet 'altus,' Ovid that of 'animosus' to Accius.

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Tragedy long continued to flourish after Accius, but its vitality was gone.

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The following passage from the Argonaut of Accius shows this to a marked degree.

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For more than a generation after the death of Accius and Lucilius, no new poet of any eminence appeared at Rome.

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There are passages of the same spirit to be found among the fragments of Pacuvius and Accius.

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