Flaccus, Tibulus
a writer of mimes, whose age and history are both unknown. A trochaic tetrameter verse from a mimus entitled Melaene, is the only relic of his poems. It is cited under the word "Capularem," by Fulgentius. (Exposit. ant. Serm. p. 564, Nonii Mercer; Bothe, Poet. Scen. Lat. vol. v. p. 273.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.