Lucius Accius
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Lucius Accius (170 BC – 86 BC) was a Roman tragic poet.
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- Oderint, dum metuant.
- Let them hate, so long as they fear.
- From ‘Atreus’, quoted in Seneca, Dialogues, Books III-V ‘De Ira’, I, 20, 4
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- These quotes appear in Guterman The Anchor book of Latin quotations: with English translations (1966), pp. 43-45
- A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Quotes about Accius [edit]
- Accius was a writer of tragedies, and being once asked why he, whose dialogue was celebrated for its energy, did not engage in the practice at the bar, answered, because in his tragedies he could make his characters say what he pleased; but that at the bar he should have to contend with persons who would say anything but what he pleased.
- John Quincy Adams, in Lectures On Rhetoric And Oratory: Delivered To The Classes Of Senior And Junior Sophisters In Harvard University, Vol. 2 (1810), p. 91
