"Oderint dum metuant."
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Fragment of Atreus, quoted by Seneca, ', I, 20, 4 (tr. Warmington)
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Lucius Accius
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. He was the son of a freedman, probably from Rome. The year of his death is unknown, but he must have lived to a great age, since Cicero (born 106 BC) writes of having conversed with him on literary matters.
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