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Annales (Ennius)
The Annales was an epic poem in Latin hexameters by Quintus Ennius, written in the early second century BCE. In eighteen books it told the history of Rome from the flight of Aeneas from Troy to the poet's own day. It was Rome's national epic until Virgil's Aeneid, and only about 600 lines survive, in quotations by later writers.
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