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2 unusual facts about Lucius Accius


Latin spelling and pronunciation

A short-lived convention of spelling long vowels by doubling the vowel letter is associated with the poet Lucius Accius.

Lucian Müller

G. Lucili saturarum reliquiae (1872), including the fragments of Accius and Sueius


Gaius Lucilius

Had he been a semi-Graecus, like Ennius and Pacuvius, or of humble origin, like Plautus, Terence or Accius, he would scarcely have ventured, at a time when the senatorial power was strongly in the ascendant, to revive the role which had proved disastrous to Naevius; nor would he have had the intimate knowledge of the political and social life of his day which fitted him to be its painter.


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