Spurius Mummius

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Spurius Mummius was a Roman soldier and writer.^[1]

He was a legatus of his brother Lucius Mummius in Corinth in 146 BC and 145 BC and a close friend of Scipio Aemilianus. Politically, he was with aristocrats and he wrote satirical and ethical epistles, describing his experiences in Corinth in humorous verse. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, these letters, which were still popular a hundred years later, were the first examples of a distinct class of Roman poetry, the poetic epistle.

References

↑ "Mummii". Mek.niif.hu. Retrieved 2013-10-24.

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mummius, Lucius". Encyclopædia Britannica 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 967

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