1st-century AD Roman senator, orator and poet (26–101)
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Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus ( Latin: [ˈsiːlijʊs ɪˈt̪alɪkʊs] , c. 26 – c. 101 AD) was a Roman senator, orator and epic poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature. His surviving work is the 17-book Punica, an epic poem about the Second Punic War and the longest surviving poem in Classical Latin at over 12,000 lines.
A painting by Joseph Wright of Derby depicting Silius Italicus at the tomb of Virgil.
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