biography
pronunciation:
[neevius]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.264–c.194 BC)
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| biography:
| Poet and playwright, probably born in Campania. He served in the first Punic War (264–241 BC), and started producing his own plays in 235. A plebeian, for 30 years he satirized the Roman nobles in his plays, and was compelled to leave Rome, ultimately retiring to Utica in Africa. Fragments of an epic, De bello Punico, are extant. |
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