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(adjective) : Ennĭus, i, m.
* Q. Ennius, the most celebrated Roman poet of the ante-class. period, the father of Roman epic poetry, born at Rudiae, in Calabria, 515, died 585 A. U. C.; Ter. And. prol. 18; Cic. Brut. 18, 73 sq.; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 50.—Cf. respecting him, Teuffel's Gesch. der Röm. Lit. p. 157 sq., Bernhardy's Grundriss der Röm. Lit. pp. 188 sq., 360 sq., and the authorities cited by both.
* Derivv.
* L. Ennius, a Roman knight, Tac. A. 3, 70.
* Ennĭānista, ae, m., an imitator of Ennius, Auct. ap. Gell. 8, 5, 3.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary