Chapter V
Roman Tragedy: Ennius—Accius (233-94 B.C.).
Contrast between Greek and Roman tragedy—Oratorical form of Latin tragedy—Ennius—The father of Roman poetry—His humamitas—Relations with Scipio—A follower of Pythagoras—His tragedies—Pacuvius—Painter and tragedian—Cicero’s criticism of his Niptra—His epitaph—L. Accius —The last tragic writer—A reformer of spelling.
APPENDIX.—On some fragments of Sueius or Suevius.