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          6. Pacuvius

          Roman tragic poet

          Not to be confused with Pacuvius Calavius.

          Marcus Pacuvius (; 220 – c. 130 BC) was an ancient Roman tragic poet. He is regarded as the greatest of their tragedians prior to Lucius Accius.

          Biography

          He was the nephew and pupil of Ennius, by whom Roman tragedy was first raised to a position of influence and dignity.

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          In the interval between the death of Ennius (169 BC) and the advent of Accius, the youngest and most productive of the tragic poets, Pacuvius alone maintained the continuity of the serious drama, and perpetuated the character first imparted to it by Ennius.

          Like Ennius he probably belonged to an Oscan stock, and was born at Brundisium, which had become a Roman colony in 244 BC. Hence he never attained to that perfect idiomatic purity of style, which was the special glory of the early writers of comedy, Naevius and Plautus.

          Pacuvius obtained distinction also as a painter; and Pliny the Elder (Naturalis Historia xxxv) ment