- AFRA`NIUS
- a Latin comic poet who flourished 100 B.C.; also a Roman Consul who played a prominent part in the rivalry between Cæsar and Pompey, 60 B.C.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
AFRA`NIUS
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