Attius

American  

[at-ee-uhs] / ˈæt i əs /

noun

1. Lucius. Accius, Lucius.

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Example Sentences

Dated to the 2nd or 3rd Century AD, it was inscribed on behalf of Titus Attius Tutor, commander of the First Cohort of Baetasian, which came to Maryport from what is now the Netherlands.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2012

Minus mirum est ——” In his tragedies, indeed, Attius rather shows a contempt for dreams, and prodigies, and the science of augury— “Nihil credo auguribus qui aures verbis divitant Alienas, suas ut auro locupletent domos.”

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

The exile made his way to the land of the Volscians, and seating himself by the hearth-fire of Attius Tullius, their chief, waited there with covered head till his late bitter foe should come in.

From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles

And from that embarrassment it is that all those fallaciously speaking wiles, as Attius calls them, have arisen.

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke

Nevertheless Attius had good hopes that he might yet kindle their anger against the Romans; and this indeed he accomplished, as shall now be told.

From Stories From Livy by Pinelli, Bartolomeo