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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS
edition, which had been intended to replace TRF; both examined with special reference
to P.); R. Argenio (Turin 1959); G. d'Anna (Rome 1967), cf. C. Garton, A.J.Ph.
91 (1970) "8-33.
STUDIES: FUNDAMENTAL: Leo, Gesch. 226-32; R. Helm, RE xvm (1942) 2156-74
(excellent survey of post-Leo scholarship and accounts of individual plays); I. Mariotti,
Introduction* a Pacuvio (Urbino i960: complementary to Helm), cf. H. Haffter, Gnomon
40 (1968) 206; M. Valsa, Marcus Pacuvius, Poite tragique (Paris 1957). SEE ALSO:
H.-J. Mette, Lustrum 9 (1964) 78-107, al. (Roman tragic poets 1945-64); B. Bilinski,
Contrastanti ideal I di cultura sulla scena di Pacuvio (Warsaw 1962), cf. J.-H. Waszink,
Mnemosyne 19 (1966) 82—4; W. Beare, The Roman stage, 3rd ed. (London 1964)
79-84.
ACCIUS, LUCIUS
LIFE
b. 170 B. c. at Pisaurum; his family freedmen coloni. Put on a tragedy at same festival as
the aged Pacuvius in 140 or 139 B.C. (Jerome, Chron. 139 B.C., given as his floruit).
Wrote his Brutus and a triumphal saturnian inscription ( Works 2 and 5) for D. Junius
Brutus Callaicus (RE Iunius 57, cos. 138 B.C.); cf. Cic. Arch. 27, schol. Bob. adloc,
Val. Max. 8.14.2, Cic. Leg. 2.54, Plut. Q. Rom. 34, Cic. Brut. 107 and 229. c. 135 B.C.
travelled to 'Asia' (Gell. 13.2), i.e. Pergamum; before embarking is supposed to have
met and stayed with Pacuvius at Tarentum and read him his Atreus (Gell. loc. cit.). In
120s was object of repeated attacks by Lucilius and became ofBcial head of the College
of Poets, on which he had erected a gigantic statue of himself (Pliny, N.H. 34.19, cf.
Lucilius (28) 794 M = ROL 844: he himself was very short); cf. Serv. ad Aen. 1.8,
B. Tamm, Opusc. Rom. ill (1961) 157-67, H. Cancik, M.D.A.I.(JC) 76 (1969) 323, E.
Badian, 'Ennius and his friends', Entretiens XVII (Fondation Hardt 1971) 151—95. It
was noted that A. would not rise in honour of the senatorial poet Julius Caesar Strabo
in collegiumpoetarum uenienti, an anecdote referring to c. 95—87 B.C. (Val. Max. 3.7.11);
Cicero heard him lecturing in early 80s B.C. His latest known tragedy was Tereus
(104 B.C., Cic. Phil. 1.15.36). The freedman scholar Lutatius Daphnis was educated as a
slave by A. and he sold him for a record price to the princeps senatus M. Aemilius
Scaurus (Pliny, N.H. 7.128). He successfully prosecuted an actor who named him on
the stage (auct. Ad Her. 1.24, cf. 2.19). Reputation: Cic. Plane. 24, Sest. 56; Ovid,
Am. 1.15.19; Vitr. 9 praef. 16; Veil. Pat. 1.17.1. Comparisons with Pacuvius: Hor.
Epist. 2.1.55; Ve U- Pat - 2.9.3; Quint. 10.1.97.
WORKS
(1) FABULAE CREPIDATAE (c. 700 verses): (a) more than forty verses: Epigoni, Eurysaces,
Philocteta Lemnius; (£) more than twenty verses: Armorum iudicium, Astyanax,
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