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The gens Pacuvia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned during the second century BC, and from then down to the first century of the Empire Pacuvii are occasionally encountered in the historians. The first of the Pacuvii to achieve prominence at Rome, and certainly the most illustrious of the family, was the tragic poet Marcus Pacuvius.[1]

  1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, pp. 81, 82 ("Pacuvius").

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