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Porcius Licinus was an ancient Roman poet, whom Aulus Gellius places between Valerius Aedituus and Q. Lutatius Catulus, consul in BC 102 or 104, and who, therefore, probably lived in the latter part of the second century BC. Gellius quotes an epigram of Licinus, which seems to be taken from the Greek, and likewise cites the commencement of a poem of his on the history of Roman poetry, written in t
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