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Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius Asconius ( c. AD 26–102), Roman politician and poet, author of the Punica , an epic poem of 17 books on the Second Punic War, at over 12,000 lines the longest poem in Latin. Before turning to the composition of poetry in retirement Silius had an outstanding public career (the evidence for his life comes from Martial's epigrams and a distinctly tepid death-notice in Pliny the Younger , Ep. 3. 7). Zealous in prosecution under Nero , he was the last consul appointed by the emperor in AD 68, at an early age for a novus homo (roughly, first member of his family to become a senator and/or consul). In the turmoil of the next year he was engaged in tense ...

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