Lucius Afrānius

, a Latin comic poet in the age of Terence, often compared to Menander, whose style he imitated. He is blamed for the unnatural gratifications which he mentions in his writings, some fragments of which are to be found in the Corpus Poetarum . Quintilian , bk. 10 , ch. 1 .— Suet on i us , Nero , ch. 11 .— Horace , bk. 2 , ltr. 1 , li. 57 .— Cicero , de Finibus , bk. 1 , ch. 3 .— Aulus Gellius , bk. 13 , ch. 8 .――A general of Pompey, conquered by Cæsar in Spain. Suet on i us , Julius Cæsar , ch. 34 .— Plutarch , Pompey .――Quint i an us, a man who wrote a severe satire against Nero, for which he was put to death in the Pisonian conspiracy. Tacitus. ――Potitus, a plebeian, who said before Caligula, that he would willingly die if the emperor could recover from the distemper he laboured under. Caligula recovered, and Afranius was put to death that he might not forfeit his word. Dio Ca ius.