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c. 185 BC
 
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Plautus and Terence, in the second and third century BC, create a Roman drama based on Greek originals      
c. 160 BC
 
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The Roman statesman Cato the Elder writes Origines ('Origins'), a history of Rome which survives only in fragments      
-81 BC
 
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Cicero, whose speeches become models of oratory, makes his first appearance in a Roman court      
37 BC
 
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Virgil's reputation is established by his ten Eclogues, influenced by the Italian countryside in the region of his birth near Mantua       
c. 34 BC
 
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Maecenas buys a farm for Horace, in the Sabine hills near Tivoli - the most fruitful of his many acts of patronage        
27 BC
 
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Livy begins writing and publishing his History of Rome, a task which will occupy him for forty years