Accius
historical figure · 6 works · 11 mentions · 11 anchored passages
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Roman tragic poet cited for his version of Achilles' speech.
Better says Accius, with an Achilles for once wise:
For as not all fields that are tilled are fruitful — and false is that saying of Accius:
\" It seems bad Latin, but Accius spoke admirably;
On Moral Ends
Roman tragic poet quoted for the phrase describing deceptive verbal contrivances.
From that difficulty those 'falsely-speaking malices,' as Accius says, were born.
He, when he was tortured by unbearable pains, yet prolonged his life by fowling — 'slow, he pierced the swift with the stroke of his arrows, standing, the flying,' as it is in Accius — and made coverings for his body from the weaving of feathers.
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman tragedian, author of the play in which the shepherd first beholds the ship of the Argonauts.
And as that shepherd in Accius, who had never before seen a ship, when from a mountain he beheld afar the divine and strange vessel of the Argonauts, at first wondering and terrified speaks in this wise:
for as the matter now stands, I do not see how he upon whom 'on Mount Oeta the torches were borne,' as Accius says, came from that burning 'to the eternal house of his father';
Academica
Roman poet cited as an example of successful Latin imitation of Greek literary models.
Or is it because Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, and many others give delight, men who expressed not the words but the force of the Greek poets—how much more will the philosophers delight us, if, as those poets imitated Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, so these were to imitate Plato, Aristotle, and Theophrastus!
Letters to Lucilius
Early Roman tragic poet cited as an example of an author whose words have become archaic.
I am not pressing this point now with such care to show how much time I wasted with the grammarian, but that from this you may understand how much disuse has overtaken the words in Ennius and Accius, when even in this author, who is gone over daily, some have been withdrawn from us.
Adversus Valentinianos
Roman poet referenced via 'the Dish of Accius' as a comparison for a composite figure
Him they surname Soter (Saviour), and Christ, and Sermo "of his fathers," and "All-things" now, as being constructed out of the deflowering of all—the Jackdaw of Aesop, the Pandora of Hesiod, the Dish of Accius, the Hotchpotch of Nestor, the Miscellany of Ptolemy.