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RABIRIUS , a Latin epic poet of the See also:

age of See also:Augustus. Among the See also:papyrus fragments discovered at See also:Herculaneum in the See also:early See also:part of the 19th See also:century were sixty-seven (mutilated) hexameters, referring to the final struggle between Antony and Octavian and the See also:death of See also:Cleopatra, generally supposed to be part of a poem by Rabirius, since See also:Seneca (De Benef. vi. 3, 1) informs us that he wrote on those subjects. If genuine, they justify the qualified See also:commendation of See also:Quintilian rather than the exaggerated praise of Velleius Paterculus (ii. 36, 3), who couples Rabirius and See also:Virgil as the two most eminent poets of his See also:time. Fragments in E. Bahrens, Fragmenta Poetarum Romanorum (1885) ; W. See also:Scott, Fragmenta Herculanensia (See also:Oxford, 1885) ; O. See also:Ribbeck, Geschichte der romischen Dichtung, ii. (1889) ; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, (1899); See also:Teuffel, Hist. of See also:Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), 252, 9.

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