A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

7. PUBLILIUS, a Roman comic poet, only known by the quotation of a single line by Nonius (s. v. latibulet), from one of his comedies entitled Putatores. As he is not mentioned elsewhere, it has been supposed that we ought to read Publius (that is, Publius Syrus) in this passage of Nonius.