Pupius
a Roman dramatist, whose compositions are characterised by Horace, whether ironically or not we cannot tell, as the "lacrymosa poemata Pupi." The sum total of our information regarding this personage is derived from the scholiast on the passage in question (Ep. 1.1. 67):
Pupius, Tragoediographus, ita affectus spectantium movit ut eos flere compelleret. Inde istum versum fecit:
Flebunt amici et bene noti mortem meam, Nam populus in me vivo lacrymatu' est satis.
(Burmann, Anthol. Lat. 2.213, or No. 79, ed. Meyer; comp. Weichert, Poet. Lat. Reliq. p. 276.)
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.