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POMPONIUS, LUCIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 58 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POMPONIUS, See also:LUCIUS , called Bononiensis from his birthplace See also:Bononia, Latin comic poet, flourished about 90 B.C. (or earlier). He was the first to give an See also:artistic See also:form to the Atellanae Fabulae by arranging beforehand the details of the See also:plot which had hitherto been See also:left to. improvisation, and providing a written See also:text. The fragments show fondness for See also:alliteration and playing upon words, skill in the use of rustic and farcical See also:language, and a considerable amount of See also:obscenity. Fragments in O. See also:Ribbeck, Scenicae romanorum poesis fragmenta (1897–1898); see See also:Mommsen, Hist. of See also:Rome (Eng. tr.), bk. iv. ch. 13; See also:Teuffel-See also:Schwabe, Hist. of See also:Roman Literature (Eng. tr.), § 151.

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