Laevius

Laevius (died c. 80 BC?) was a Latin poet, of whom practically nothing is known.

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Étude biographique et littéraire sur le poète Laevius
Catulli, Tibulli, Propertii Carmina

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“Te Andromacha per ludum manulasciuola ac tenellulacapiti meo, trepidans libensinsolita plexit munera.”
“Corpore (inquit) pectoreque undique obeso acMente exsensa tardigenucloSenio obpressum.”
“Venus amoris altrix,genetrix cupiditatis,mihi quae diem serenumhilarula praepandere cresti,opesculae tuae ac ministrae.”

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Laevius (died c. 80 BC?) was a Latin poet, of whom practically nothing is known.

The earliest reference to him is perhaps in Suetonius (De grammaticis, 3), though it is not certain that the Laevius Milissus or Melissus there referred to is the same person. Definite references do not occur before the 2nd century (Fronto, Ep. ad ~k~. Caes. i. 3; Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae ii. 24, Xii. 10, XjX. 9 Apuleius, De magia, 30; Porphyrion, Ad Horat. carm. iii. 1, 2).

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