The New International Encyclopædia/Afranius, Lucius

AFRA′NIUS, Lucius. A Roman poet and playwright, who lived about 100 B.C. He was praised by Cicero and Quintilian for the excellence of his plays, only the titles and a few fragments of which survive. They are collected by Ribbeck, Comicorum Romanorum Fragmenta (Leipzig, 1898).