Abronius Silo

Abronius Silo (fl. 1st century BC) was a Latin poet who lived in the latter part of the Augustan age. Silo is mentioned in the suasoriae of Seneca the Elder. Seneca wrote that he was a pupil of the rhetorician Marcus Porcius Latro. According to Seneca, he plagiarized a poem about the Iliad from Latro. The plagiarized line read:

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Seneca also wrote that he fathered another poet, also named Silo, who wrote poetry intended for pantomimes; Seneca considered this to be a waste of his talents.