Had he been a semi-Graecus, like Ennius and Pacuvius, or of humble origin, like Plautus, Terence or Accius, he would scarcely have ventured, at a time when the senatorial power was strongly in the ascendant, to revive the role which had proved disastrous to Naevius; nor would he have had the intimate knowledge of the political and social life of his day which fitted him to be its painter.
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Persius, Juvenal and Quintilian vouch for the admiration with which he was regarded in the first century of the empire.
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Stangl, Thomas: Ciceronis Orationum Scholiastae: Asconius.
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