Rubrenus Lappa
a tragic poet and a contemporary of Juvenal, was compelled by poverty to pledge his cloak, while writing a tragedy on Atreus. (Juv. Stt. 7.71-73.)
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.