Lucius Accius

, a Roman tragic poet, whose roughne of style Quintilian has imputed to the unpolished age in which he lived. He translated some of the tragedies of Sophocles, but of his numerous pieces only some of the names are known; and among these his Nuptiæ, Mercat or, Neoptolemus, Phœnice, Medea, Atreus, . The great marks of honour which he received at Rome may be collected from this circumstance: that a man was severely reprimanded by a magistrate for mentioning his name without reverence. Some few of his verses are preserved in Cicero and in other writers. He died about 180 years B.C. Horace , bk. 2 , ltr. 1 , li. 56 .— Ovid , Amores , bk. 1 , poem 15, li. 19 .— Quintilian , bk. 10 , ch. 1 .— Cicero , Letters to Atticus & Brutus or de Claris Or at or i bus , bk. 3 , ch. 16 .――A famous orator of Pisaurum in Cicero’s age.――Labeo, a foolish poet mentioned Persius , bk. 1 , li. 50 .――Tullius, a prince of the Volsci, very inimical to the Romans. Coriolanus, when banished by his countrymen, fled to him, and led his armies against Rome. Livy , bk. 2 , ch. 37 .— Plutarch , Coriolanus .