LIVIVUS, Andronicus, a comic poet who flourished at Rome about 240 years before the Christian era. He was the first who turned the personal satires and Fescennine verses, so long the admiration of the Romans, into the form of a proper dialogue and regular play. Though the character of a player, so valued and applauded in Greece, was reckoned vile and despicable amongst the Romans, Andronicus acted a part in his dramatical compositions. Andronicus was the freedman of M. Livius Salinator, whose children he educated. His poetry had grown obsolete in the age of Cicero, whose nicety and judgment would not even recommend the reading of it. Horace mentions his dramas as popular in schools; but Suetonius says they were mere translations from the Greek. His Hymns are said to have been sung to propitiate the gods. A Latin Odyssey is attributed to him; but of this, as well as of his plays, tradition has only preserved the name.