Abronius Silo
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Abronius Silo (fl. 1st century BC) was a Latin poet who lived in the latter part of the Augustan age. Silo is mentioned in the suasoriae of Seneca the Elder. Seneca wrote that he was a pupil of the rhetorician Marcus Porcius Latro. According to Seneca, he plagiarized a poem about the Illiad from his Latro.[1][2] The plagiarized line read:[3]
Danai, magnum paeana canentes, ite triumphantes: belli mora concidit Hector
Translated into English this quote reads:[4]
Go forward, Greeks, singing a great paean, go victorious: Hector, the brake on the war, has fallen
Seneca also wrote that he fathered another poet, also named Silo, who wrote poetry intended for pantomimes.[5] Which Seneca considered to be a waste of his talents.[6][7]
