Novius
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Nouium Proper-name adjective: neuter vocative singular, Proper-name adjective: masculine genitive plural, Proper-name adjective: masculine accusative singular, Proper-name adjective: neuter genitive plural, Proper-name adjective: neuter nominative singular, Proper-name adjective: neuter accusative singular of Novius
- the name of a Roman gens.
- A Masc.
- 1 Novius, a famous writer of Atellane plays, a contemporary of Pomponius, about A. U. C. 650-670: Novius probatissimus Atellanarum scriptor ait, etc., Macr. S. 1, 10, 3; Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 255; 2, 69, 279; cf. Gell. 15, 13, 4; 17, 2, 8; Non. 81, 22 sq. et saep.
- —Hence, Nŏvĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Novius (the Atellane poet), Novian: oratiunculae, M. Aurel. ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 2, 13 Mai.: fullones, Tert. Pall. 4; v. fullo, I.—
- 2 L. Novius, a tribune of the people and enemy of Clodius, Ascon. ad Cic. Mil. p. 47 Orell.—
- 3 Another Novius, Hor. S. 1, 6, 40 (perh. a fictitious name, i. q. Newcomer, Upstart). —
- 4 A fortune-hunter, Juv. 12, 111.—
- B Fem.: Nŏvĭa, ae, the wife of Oppianicus, Cic. Clu. 9, 27.
1. Q. Novius, a celebrated writer of Atellane plays, was a contemporary of Pomponius, who wrote plays of the same kind, and of the dictator Sulla. (Macrob. Sat 1.10; Gel. 15.13.) Works Atellanae
The plays of Novius are frequently mentioned by Nonius Marcellus, and occasionally by the other grammarians. Editions
A list of Novius' plays, and the fragments which are preserved, are given by Bothe. (Poet. Lat. Scenic. Fragmenta, vol. ii. p. 41, &c.)
2. L. Novius, a colleague and enemy of P. Clodius in his tribunate, B. C. 58. A fragment of a speech of his is preserved by Asconius (in Cic. Mil. p. 47, Orelli).
NOVIUS (Νοούϊος, Ptol. 2.3.2), a river on the W. coast of Britannia Barbara, or Caledonia, flowing into the estuary Ituna (or Solway Firth), now the Nith.
[T.H.D]Quintus (?). A celebrated writer of Atellan plays, a contemporary of the dictator Sulla (Macrob. i. 10, 3).