Of other Greek authors, Homer and euripides are those of whom we find most traces in the poem.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The later poets, on the other hand, such as euripides and the writers of the new comedy, were not indeed more truly human, but were less distinctively Greek than their immediate predecessors.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
And thus it happened that, as the comic poets of Rome reproduced the new comedy of Athens, which portrayed the passions of private not of political life, and the manners rather of a cosmopolitan than of a purely Greek civilisation, so the tragic poets found the art of euripides and of his less illustrious successors more easy to imitate than that of Aeschylus and Sophocles.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar