QUINTUS ENNIUS
\kwˈɪntəs ɛnˈɪəs], \kwˈɪntəs ɛnˈɪəs], \k_w_ˈɪ_n_t_ə_s ɛ_n_ˈɪ__ə_s]\
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A Roman poet; born at Rudiae in Calabria, 239 B.C.; died in 169 B. C. While a centurion in the army, he was induced by Cato the elder to visit Rome, and came into close association with Scipio Africanus and the other great men there. A Calabrian with Greek culture, he was doubtless the most learned Latin of his time. He essayed nearly every kind of poetry,- narrative or epic (in his metrical "Annals"), dramatic (tragedy and comedy), didactic (on natural philosophy, theology or mythology, and gastronomy). Nothing of his has come down to us complete, but many considerable fragments are preserved in the works of classic writers and anthologists.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).