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Quintus Trabea
Trabea
also: Trabea
Early Roman comic poet (writer of fabulae palliatae, c. 2nd century BC), quoted several times by Cicero (Tusc. 4.35; De Fin. 2.13). In Fam. 9.21 Cicero alludes to a 'tag from Trabea' that Paetus had used.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 9.21 §1 So you have no need of that tag from Trabea
Quintus Trabea was an early Roman writer of comedy (palliatae), quoted elsewhere by Cicero (e.g. Tusc. 4.35, De Fin. 2.13). Paetus had apparently capped a remark with a line from Trabea; Cicero says he should rather quote a 'misfire' (apoteugma) of Cicero's own.
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.13 the character in Trabea
Quintus Trabea was an early Roman writer of comedy (palliata) of the second century BC, known only from fragments quoted by later authors. Cicero cites a line of his to illustrate the Latin use of voluptas for mental gladness.
- Tusculan Disputations §4.67 the man in Trabea rejoices in another
Quintus Trabea, an early Roman comic poet, from whom Cicero quotes a young lover's exultant boast about his mistress as an example of shameful gladness.