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Abronius Silo

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Abronius Silo (fl. 1st century BC) was a Latin poet who lived in the latter part of the Augustan age. He was a pupil of the rhetorician Marcus Porcius Latro. His son was also a poet, but degraded himself by writing plays for pantomimes.[1] Only two hexameters of his work survive today.[2]

References

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), "Abronius Silo", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, p. 3
  2. ^ Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae ii. p. 21. Bip.

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