Turpi'lius, Sextus
a Roman dramatist whose productions belonged to the department of
Comoedia Palliata..
Works
The titles of thirteen or fourteen (
Acta, Boethuntes, Canephorus, Demetrius, Demiurgus, Epiclerus, Hetaera, Lemnii, Leucadiu Lindia, Paratcrusa, Philopator, Thrasyleon, Veliterna (?) have been preserved, together with a few fragments. Of the above, the
Thrasyleon appears to have been taken from Menander, the
Demetrius and the
Leucadia from Alexis.
According to Hieronymus, in the Eusebian Chronicle, Turpilius died, when very old, at Sinuessa in B. C. 101.
He stands seventh in the scale of Volcatius Sedigitus. [SEDIGITUS.]
Editions
The fragments will be found collected in the Poetarum Latii Scenicorum Fragmenta of Bothe, vol. ii. p. 76. 8vo. Lips. 1834.[
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