Note 503 — Chapter V · PHAEDRUS AND FABLE: POETRY OF THE TIME
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The chief authors of comedy traceable during the Silver Age are the Pomponius Bassulus recorded in an inscription at Aeclanum (C.I.L., IX., 1165) as a translator of Menander as well as a writer of original plays, and the Vergilius Romanus of Pliny’s letters who composed comic dramas after the old fashion. These, it may be guessed, were not intended to be acted.