Ninnius Crassus

Ninnius Crassus was a Roman writer who translated the Greek Iliad into Latin hexameters.^[1] Nothing about his life is known.^[2] He may have lived in the early 1st century BC.^[3] Only one and a half lines of Ninnius' translation are extant.^[4] They are:

• socii, nunc fite uiri, quoted by Nonius Marcellus^[2]
• man non<dum> coniui oculos ego deinde sopore, quoted by Priscian^[2]

According to Reinhold Glei, commenting on the quality of the poetry, "the loss of the poem is perhaps not a very painful one".^[4]