Tragœdiæ scriptores Accius atque Pacuvius, clarissimi sententiarum verborumque pondere, et auctoritate personarum.
Yet Accius was unquestionably a lofty and excellent poet, though his style was censured for harshness.
There are passages of the same spirit to be found among the fragments of Pacuvius and Accius.
For more than a generation after the death of Accius and Lucilius, no new poet of any eminence appeared at Rome.
Horace applies the epithet 'altus,' Ovid that of 'animosus' to Accius.
