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Quintus Ennius
Ennius
Early Roman epic poet (239-169 BC), 'father of Latin poetry'; named among poets one might thoughtlessly despise.
Reading notes
- On Anger §3.37 Ennius
Early Roman epic poet (239-169 BC), 'father of Latin poetry.'
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §6.58.5 Ennius
Quintus Ennius (239--169 BC), the father of Latin epic poetry; his archaic vocabulary, like that of the tragedian Accius, had largely fallen out of use by Seneca's day.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §108.33 citizen or foe
From Ennius's Annales (on Scipio Africanus); Q. Ennius (239–169 BC) is the father of Latin epic, quoted here by Cicero in On the Republic.