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Niptra (Pacuvius)
the Niptra
also: Niptra, Niptris, the Niptra
A Roman tragedy by Pacuvius (the title meaning The Washing, after the Odyssean foot-bath scene) dramatizing the wounding and death of Ulysses. Cicero praises Pacuvius's restrained handling of Ulysses' pain over the more tearful version in Sophocles, quoting several of its lines.