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AFRA′NIUS, Lucius. A Roman poet and playwright, who lived about 100 B.C. He was praised by Cicero and Quintilian for the excellence of his plays, only the titles and a few fragments of which survive. They are collected by Ribbeck, Comicorum Romanorum Fragmenta (Leipzig, 1898).

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