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AFRANIUS, LUCIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 320 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AFRANIUS, See also:LUCIUS , See also:Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 B.C. His comedies chiefly dealt with everyday subjects from Roman See also:middle-class See also:life, and he himself tells us that he borrowed freely from See also:Menander and others. His See also:style was vigorous and correct; his moral See also:tone that of the See also:period. See also:Horace, Epp. ii. 1. 57; See also:Cicero, See also:Brutus, 45, de Fin. i. 3; See also:Quintilian x. I. 100; fragments, about 400 lines, in See also:Ribbeck, Scaenicae Romanorum Poesis Fragmenta, i1. (1898).

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