Cornelius Severus was an Augustan Age

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poet who is mentioned in

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and

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. Quintilian attests to an epic about the

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, ''Bellum Siculum,'' and Ovid refers to a long poem on Rome's ancient kings, which may be ''Res Romanae''. This work, such as it is known, exists only in quotations by other authors. Seneca quoted twenty-five lines from it on the death of

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, which can be found in the

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''Oxford Book of Latin Verse'' (1912 ed.).

References

*Courtney, Edward. "Cornelius Severus" in Hornblower, Simon and Antony Spawforth, eds. ''The Oxford Classical Dictionary.'' London: OUP, 2003. p. 399. *Kenney, E. J. "Cornelius Severus by Hellfried Dahlmann." ''The Classical Review'' (28)1:1978, 155.

External links

*''The Death of Cicero'
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