Pacuvius, the earliest of Roman tragic poets, the sister's son of Ennius, was born at Brundisium about 220 B.C., lived mostly in Rome, and died at Tarentum, ninety years of age (130 B.C.). His dramas, of which only fragments are extant, were formed after Greek models.
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