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Born in Chesterfield, Virginia, Smith completed preparatory studies and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1782.
Born in Chesterfield, Virginia, Smith completed preparatory studies and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1782.
Furius Antias was an ancient Roman poet, born in Antium. Smith, Dictionary
Macrobius, Saturnalia, 6, 1, quotes several lines of Furius"s Annales which would be copied by Virgil. Willy Morel, Fragmenta poetarum latinorum epicorum et lyricorum praeter Ennium et Lucilium, Leipzig, Teubner, 1927.
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Furius Antias (Aulus Furius Antias).
Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina. West. West. Batstone, "The Fragments of Furius Antias", Classical Quarterly, New Series, 46 (1996), pp.
Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 18, 11, defends his neologisms against the critic Caesellius Vindex.