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Bellum Punicum (Naevius)
Naevius's Punic War
also: bellum Punicum, the Punic War
The epic poem on the First Punic War by Gnaeus Naevius, composed in Saturnian verse. Cicero (Brutus 75-76) says it delights like a work of Myron, and accuses Ennius of borrowing or stealing much from it.