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b. 170
Lucius Accius (170 – c. 86 BC) was a Roman tragic poet, literary scholar and playwright. Accius was born in 170 BC at Pisaurm, a town founded in the Ager Gallicus in 184 BC.
Also known as: Accius, Attius
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A woman's nature, lust, and opportunity.
Wide awake a man must always be; many are the ambushes laid for the good.
Whose life is unseemly it befits not to escape a shameful death.
Let them hate, so long as they fear.
Good grain, though to a field of poorer kind
Intelligence is ours through the mind;
He only is a wretched man,
Saepe ignavavit fortem ex spe expectatio.
That by the honourable I'll be honoured
Laetum in Parnaso inter pinos tripudiantem in ciroulis
No no! It is a corpse that I have rendered
Immo enim vero corpus Priamo reddidi, Hectora abstuli.
... In valour be you like your father,
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