Spurius Mummius was a Roman soldier and writer.
This friendship garnered his entrance into the Scipionic Circle.
[2] He wrote satirical and ethical epistles, describing his experiences in Corinth in humorous verse.
According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, these letters, which were still popular a hundred years later, were the first examples of a distinct class of Roman poetry, the poetic epistle.
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