Aulus Furius Antias
Furius Antias was an ancient Roman poet, born in Antium.[1]
Following
Quintus Lutatius Catulus, consul in 102 BC, is attested by Cicero
(Brutus, ch. 35).
Smith, Dictionary
Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 18, 11, defends his neologisms against the critic Caesellius Vindex
.
Macrobius, Saturnalia, 6, 1, quotes several lines of Furius's Annales which would be copied by Virgil.
Editions
Willy Morel, Fragmenta poetarum latinorum epicorum et lyricorum praeter Ennium et Lucilium, Leipzig, Teubner, 1927. (New ed. Leipzig 1995.)
Furius Antias (Aulus Furius Antias) [fragmenta in aliis scriptis seruata]; Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina.
Studies
W. W. Batstone, "The Fragments of Furius Antias", Classical Quarterly, New Series, 46 (1996), pp. 387–402.
References
- ^ Yvette Julien, edition of Aulu-Gelle (Gellius), Les nuits attiques (Noctes Atticae), t. 4, Books 16 to 20, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2002, p. 185.
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