Lucius Afranius (poet)

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Lucius Afranius was also the name of a consul of 60 BC.

Lucius Afranius (RE 5), a Roman comic poet, who lived in the later second century BC. His comedies, of the genre known as fabulae togatae, chiefly dealt with everyday subjects from Roman middle-class life, although his plots were largely borrowed from Greek New Comedy, especially Menander, as he himself tells us. He had a vigorous and correct style and expressed the moral tone of his period.

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• Horace, Epp. ii. 1. 57
• Cicero, Brutus, 45, de Fin. i. 3
• Quintilian x 1. 100;
• fragments, about 400 lines, in Otto Ribbeck, Scaenicae Romanorum Poesis Fragmenta, ii. (1898)
• Daviault's Budé edition (1981; much criticised).

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.