Titus Maccius Plautus (Plautus) (c. 254 - c. 184 BC) (jan 1, 254 BC – jan 1, 184 BC)
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Called “Pictor” because his grandfather Gaius Fabius Pictor painted a temple in 302 BC; a senator; sent as an embassy in 216 BC to consult the Delphic oracle about the Roman defeat at Cannae; possibly a member of the decemviri sacris faciundis
Wrote the first Latin history. The history was written in Greek, and its subject was the First and Second Punic Wars
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Latin Lit
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