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In one of his epistles, Horace mentions a Dossennus who "exceeds all measure in his voracious parasites; with how loose a sock he runs over the stage: for he is glad to put the money in his pocket, after this regardless whether his play stand or fall” (Book II, Epistle I).
Fabius Dossennus quite decides the question, in the following line:— 'I sent them good wine, myrrh-wine'; and in his play called 'Acharistio,' we find these words: 'Bread and pearled barley, myrrh-wine too.'"
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Pliny the Elder, however, refers to a Fabius Dossennus as the author of "Acharistio," one of the Atellanæ Fabulæ, in his ''Natural History'' [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/14*.html#92 (Book XIV, 15 (92))].
Pliny writes: "The wines that were the most esteemed among the ancient Romans were those perfumed with myrrh, as mentioned in the play of Plautus, entitled the 'Persian,' though we find it there stated that calamus ought to be added to it....
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