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Can you name the Roman Authors by Fun facts?

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Last Latin author to write both comedy and tragedy
Pliny the Younger and Septicius Clarus were his patrons
His style was described by Quintilian as 'lactea ubertas'
First state professor of rhetoric, with annual salary of 100,000 sesterces
Best friends with T. Pomponius
Sued by his in-laws for witchcraft
Wrote the longest (and worst) Latin epic
Fell into disgrace with Augustus and killed himself in 26 B.C.
Died in Bethlehem in either A.D. 419 or 420
Horace refers to him as 'mea lucerna'
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Tutor of M. Aurelius and L. Verus
Forced D. Laberius to act in one of his own mimes
Invokes Venus at the beginning of his work that argues against divine intervention
The Roman Callimachus
Lost his father when he was 6, died when he was only about 28
Wrote comedies that are sometimes attributed to one of his patrons, either Scipio Aemilianus or Laelius
Recalled from exile (in Corsica) to tutor Nero
Only author to have his bust displayed in Asinius Pollio's public library
Dante's guide through the underworld
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