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AFRANIUS, LUCIUS,Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 B.C. His comedies chiefly dealt with everyday subjects from Roman middle-class life, and he himself tells us that he borrowed freely from Menander and others. His style was vigorous and correct; his moral tone that of the period.

• Horace, Epp. ii. 1. 57;
• Cicero, Brutus, 45, de Fin. i. 3;
• Quitilian x 1. 100;
• fragments, about 400 lines, in Ribbeck, Scaenicae Romanorum Poesis Fragmenta, ii. (1898).