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Silius Italicus

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Silius Italicus (sĭ`lēs` ĭtă`lĭks), A.D. 25–A.D. 101, Latin poet. An orator and state functionary, Silius was made consul in A.D. 68 and proconsul in Asia Minor in A.D. 77. Retiring to his estate near Naples, he purchased the villas of Cicero and Vergil and made them into museums. His epic on the second Punic war, Punica, an imitation of Vergil's Aeneid, is the longest surviving Latin poem.


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Sometimes the word for "punishment" is a stretch, however, as in Silius Italicus 4.
Only four editions are attributed to this press: an edition of Silius Italicus edited by Leto and including Leto's life of the poet; Marsi's poem; and editions of Columella (on whose works Leto later wrote a commentary) and Martial.
 
 
 
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