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Encyclopedia > Lucius Afranius (poet)

Lucius Afranius, a Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 BC. His comedies chiefly dealt with everyday subjects from Roman middle-class life, and he himself tells us that he borrowed freely from Menander and others. He had a vigorous and correct style and expressed the moral tone of his period. See also Roman Republic (18th century) and Roman Republic (19th century). ... Poets are authors of poems. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC - 90s BC - 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC Years: 99 BC 98 BC 97 BC 96 BC 95 BC - 94 BC - 93 BC 92 BC 91... Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ... The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ... See life (disambiguation) for other senses of the word. ... For the Indo-Greek king (160–135 BC) see Menander the Just. ... Clothing, see Fashion Writing, see style guide Flower part, see Flower Style (manner of address) Chinese courtesy name, see zi Web design, see Cascading Style Sheets Sundials, see sundial See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise...


Horace, Epp. ii. 1. 57; Cicero, Brutus, 45, de Fin. i. 3; Quintilian x 1. 100; fragments, about 400 lines, in Ribbeck, Scaenicae Romanorum Poesis Fragmenta, ii. (1898). For other people named Horace, see Horace (disambiguation). ... Marcus Tullius Cicero (January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was an orator and statesman of Ancient Rome, and is generally considered the greatest Latin prose stylist. ... Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. ... Johann Carl Otto Ribbeck (July 23, 1827 - July 18, 1898), was a German classical scholar. ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...


This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica ( 1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ...


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Lucius Afranius (general) - LoveToKnow 1911 (254 words)
Afranius, regardless of his promise, joined Pompey at Dyrrhachium, and at the battle of Pharsalus (48) had charge of Pompey's camp.
On the defeat of Pompey, Afranius, despairing of pardon from Caesar, went to Africa, and was present at the disastrous battle of Thapsus (46).
Escaping from the field with a strong body of cavalry, he was afterwards taken prisoner, along with Faustus Sulla, by the troops of Sittius, and handed over to Caesar, whose veterans rose in tumult and put them to death.
The Detective and the Toga: Roman Mysteries by Time Period (350 words)
Consulship of Lucius Julius Caesar and Publius Rutilius Lupus (90 BC):
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Consulship of Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus and Lucius Marcius Philippus (56 BC):
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