Ennius
Americannoun
noun
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The gastronomic treatise, which Ennius afterwards translated into Latin, was the work of Archestratus of Gela.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
The ascendency of Ennius in Roman literature immensely widened the gulf which always separates an educated from an uneducated class.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
Ennius entered on his career as a writer at a time when the long strain of a great struggle was giving place to the confidence and security of a great triumph.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
There is indeed no trace in Ennius of the rigid intellectual consistency of Lucretius, nor in Lucretius any sympathy with those mystic speculations which Ennius derived from the lore attributed to Pythagoras.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
Another poet who lived upon the Aventine was Ennius, who is described as inhabiting a humble dwelling, and being attended by a single female slave.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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