62. Sometimes, indeed, they composed original pieces.
--Vestigia Graeca
Ausi deserere et celebrare domestica facta.
Horat. Epistol. ad Pisones, 285, and the learned though
perplexed note of Dacier, who might have allowed the name of
tragedies to the 'Brutus' and the 'Decius' of Pacuvius, or
to the 'Cato' of Maternus. The 'Octavia', ascribed to one of
the Senecas, still remains a very unfavourable specimen of
Roman tragedy.