Crossword-Solution: VIUS 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

But many years before Lucilius was born, Nævius had been flung into a dungeon, and guarded there with circumstances of unusual rigor, on account of the bitter lines in which he had attacked the great Caecilian family.

Amongst the Romans we have Aedituus, Annianus (in Ausonius), Anser, Bassus Eubius, Helvius Cinna, Lævius (of Io and the Erotopægnion), Memmius, Cicero (to Cerellia), Pliny the Younger, Sabellus (de modo coeundi); Sisenna, the pathic Poet and translator of Milesian Fables and Sulpitia, the modest erotist.

Improbus hos Lector pueros, mentumque virili Lævius, et duræ gravat inclementia Mortis: {149a} Agmen iners; queis mos alienâ vivere quadrâ, {149b} Et lituo vexare viros, calcare caballos.

Livius Andronicus, Nævius, Ennius, Plautus, and Terence, all of whom wrote under the republic, are the most noted of the Roman dramatists.

That is explicitly proved, in the Appendix." "Now, but I am becoming angry--" "To the contrary, as I perceive with real regret, you are becoming ridiculous, since you dispute the authority of Sævius Nicanor." "--And I will show you--oh, but I will show you, you jackanapes!" "Ah, but come now! keep your temper in hand! All fairly erudite persons know you cannot do the thing you threaten: and it is notorious that the weakest wheel of every cart creaks loudest.