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Lucius Accius
Lucius Accius (; 170 – c. 86 BC), or Lucius Attius, was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar. The son of a freedman, Accius was born at Pisaurum in Umbria, in 170 BC. The year of his death is unknown, but he must have lived to a great age, since Cicero〔Cicero, ''Brutus'', 72-73〕 (born 106 BC, hence 64 years younger) speaks of having conversed with him on literary matters.
==Literary works==
He was a prolific writer and enjoyed a very high reputation.〔Horace, ''Epistles'', ii.i, 56; Cicero, ''Pro Plancio'', 24〕 The titles and considerable fragments (about 700 lines) of some fifty plays have been preserved.〔 Judging from the titles and fragments, scholars have surmised that most, if not all, of these poems were tragic in nature (although Pliny the Younger does rank him among the erotic poets).〔〔Pliny the Younger, ''Epistulae'' 5.6〕
Most of his poetical works were imitations or free translations of the Greek,〔 especially Aeschylus. The earliest of these was most likely the ''Atreus'', which was performed in 140 BC, but which is now lost.〔Cicero, ''Brutus'' 229〕 He also wrote on some Roman subjects, one of which, an examination of the tyranny of L. Tarquinius Superbus and his expulsion by Lucius Junius Brutus, titled ''Brutus'', and was probably written in honor of his patron D. Brutus.〔〔Cicero ''De Legibus''. ii.21, ''Pro Archia Poeta''. 11〕 His favorite subjects were the legends of the Trojan War and the house of Pelops.〔 While only fragments remain, the most important of which were preserved by Cicero, they seem sufficient to justify the terms of admiration in which Accius is spoken of by the ancient writers. He is particularly praised for the strength and vigor of his language and the sublimity of his thoughts,〔Cicero ''pro Plancio'' 24, ''pro Sestio'' 56, &c.; Horace ''Epodes'' ii.1.56; Quintilian x.1. § 97; Aulus Gellius xiii. 2〕 and although the grandiloquence of his literary style was on occasion mocked by some of his peers,〔Porph. ''Hor. Serm.'' 1.10.53〕 he continued to be cited by other writers long after his death.〔
Accius wrote other works of a literary character: ''Libri Didascalicon'', a treatise in verse on the history of Greek and Roman poetry, and dramatic art in particular; also ''Libri Pragmaticon'', ''Parerga'', and ''Praxidica'', of which no fragments remain; and a hexameter ''Annales''〔 containing the history of Rome, like that of Ennius.
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