Abronius Silo

Abronius Silo

Abronius Silo (fl. 1st century BC) was a Latin poet who lived in the latter part of the Augustan age. He was a pupil of the rhetorician Marcus Porcius Latro. His son was also a poet, but degraded himself by writing plays for pantomimes. [Citation
last = Smith
first = William
author-link = William Smith (lexicographer)
contribution = Abronius Silo
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 3
publisher =
place =
year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0012.html ] Only two hexameters of his work survive today. [Seneca the Elder, "Suasoriae" ii. p. 21. Bip.]

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