Lucius Accius Quotes

Lucius Accius , or Lucius Attius, was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar. The son of a freedman and a freedwoman, Accius was born at Pisaurum in Umbria, in 170 BC. The year of his death is unknown, but he must have lived to a great age, since Cicero writes of having conversed with him on literary matters. Wikipedia  

✵ 170 BC – 84 BC
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Lucius Accius Quotes

“Let them hate, so long as they fear.”
Oderint dum metuant.

Lucius Accius

From Atreus, quoted in Seneca, Dialogues, Books III–V "De Ira", I, 20, 4. (16 BC)

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