AFRANIUS, LUCIUS, Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 B.C. He dealt chiefly with everyday subjects from Roman middle-class life, and tells us that he borrowed freely from Menander and others.
See Horace Epp. ii. 1.57 ; Cicero, Brutus, 45. de Fin. i. 3; Quintilian x. 1. 100; fragments, about 400 lines, in Ribbeck Scaenicae Romanorum Poesis Fragmenta, i.i. (1898).