Lucius Accius, or Lucius Attius, was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar. Accius was born in 170 BC at Pisaurum, a town founded in the Ager Gallicus in 184 BC. He was the son of a freedman and a freedwoman, probably from Rome. 170 BC – 85 BC; died at about 84. Alive at the same time as Julius Caesar, Hipparchus, Posidonius, Cicero, and Cato the Elder. Wiki link