Cornelius Severus

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Cornelius Severus was a Augustan Age Roman epic poet who is mentioned in Quintilian and Ovid. Quintilian attests to an epic about the Sicilian Wars, Bellum Siculum, and Ovid refers to a long poem on Rome's ancient kings, which may be Res Romanae. This work, such as it is known, exists only in quotations by other authors. Seneca quoted twenty-five lines from it on the death of Cicero, which can be found in the Oxford University Press Oxford Book of Latin Verse (1912 ed.).

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  • Courtney, Edward. "Cornelius Severus" in Hornblower, Simon and Antony Spawforth, eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. London: OUP, 2003. p. 399.
  • Kenney, E. J. "Cornelius Severus by Hellfried Dahlmann." The Classical Review (28)1:1978, 155.

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