comic poet who flourished at Rome about 240 years before the Christian era. He was the first who turned the personal satires and fescen- nine verses, so long the admiration of the Romans, in- to the form of a proper dialogue and regular play. Though the character of a player, so valued and ap- plauded in Greece, was reckoned vile and despicable among the Romans, Andronicus acted a part in his dramatical compositions, and engaged the attention of his audience, by repeating what he had laboured after the manner of the Greeks. Andronicus was the freeman of M. Livius Salinator, whose children he educated. His poetry was grown obsolete in the age of Cicero, whose nicety and judgment would not even recommend the reading of it.