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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Atellanae Fabulae
Britannica 11thATELLANAE FABULAE (" Atellan fables "),.the name of a sort of popular comedy amongst the ancient Romans. The name is derived from Atella, an Oscan town in Campania; for this reason, and from their being also called Osci ludi, it has been supposed that they wer ...
Vol. 2, pp. 824-824
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Atella
Britannica 11th... hts. The town is mainly famous as the cradle of early Roman comedy, the Fabidae Atellanae (see below). Some remains of the town still exist, including a tower of the city wall in brick. See J. Beloch, Campanien (2nd ed., Breslau, 1890), p. 379.
Vol. 2, pp. 824-824
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Ernesti, Johann Christian Gottlieb
Britannica 11th... h of June of the following year. His principal works are: — Editions of Aesop's Fabulae (1781); of the Glonae tacrae of Hesychius (1785) and Suidas and Phavorinus (1786); and of Silius Italic us Punica (1791-1792); Lexicon Technologist Graecorum rketoricae (17 ...
Vol. 9, pp. 753-753
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