Accius, Lucius, dramatic poet and literary scholar, 170–c. 86 BCE
H. D. Jocelyn and Gesine Manuwald
Of freedman birth. In Rome he had friendly relations with D. *Iunius Brutus Callaicus (consul 138). Anecdotes suggest that Accius believed that literary talent demanded in its context more respect ...
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Achates
Stephen J. Harrison
Achates, character in mythology, faithful lieutenant of *Aeneas in the Aeneid; a late source ascribes to him the killing of *Protesilaus (Eust. Il. 2. 701).
Acts of the Pagan (or Heathen) Martyrs
Edith Mary Smallwood and M. T. Griffin
Is the name given by modern scholars to about a dozen fragments of Alexandrian nationalist literature, preserved on papyri mostly written in the 2nd or early 3rd cent. ce. The majority of the ...
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Aegritudo Perdicae
Alun Hudson-Williams and Antony Spawforth
Aegritudo Perdicae, an anonymous Latin *epyllion narrating the calamitous love of Perdicas for his mother, Castalia. Its ascription to *Dracontius is unwarrantable, though it almost ...
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Aelius Melissus
R. A. Kaster
Aelius Melissus, grammarian contemporary with A. *Gellius (NA 18. 6. 1–3), who derides his work on semantics (De loquendi proprietate).
Aemilius Asper, 2nd cent. CE
R. A. Kaster
Wrote (lost) commentaries on *Terence, *Sallust, and *Virgil, perhaps with a separate discussion of Virgilian grammar. The fragments (ed. Wessner, 1905) suggest a learned and sensible critic; Aelius ...
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Aemilius Macer
Edward Courtney
Aemilius Macer, a poet from Verona who died in 16 bce. Some fragments remain of his Ornithogonia and Theriaca; these drew on (but did not translate) works by *Boio and *Nicander (whose Alexipharmaca ...
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