Ninnius Crassus
Ninnius Crassus was a Roman writer who translated the Greek Iliad into Latin hexameters. Nothing about his life is known. He may have lived in the early 1st century BC. Only one and a half lines of Ninnius' translation are extant.
Ninnius Crassus
- Nationality
- Ancient Rome
- Occupation
- poet · translator
- Languages
- Latin
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They are: • socii, nunc fite uiri, quoted by Nonius Marcellus • man non coniui oculos ego deinde sopore, quoted by Priscian According to Reinhold Glei, commenting on the quality of the poetry, "the loss of the poem is perhaps not a very painful one".
The recorded working language is Latin.
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- 1.Sander M. Goldberg, Epic in Republican Rome (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 135.
- 2.Edward Courtney (ed.), The Fragmentary Latin Poets (Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 107.
- 3.The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2012), s.v. "Ninnius Crassus".
- 4.Reinhold F. Glei, "The Ilias Latina as a Roman Continuation of the Iliad", in Robert C. Simms (ed.), Brill's Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic (Brill, 2018), p. 31.
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