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Tarpa, Sp. Maecius

A Roman of literary taste, who selected the plays given at the celebration of Pompey's games in B.C. 55; and who afterwards was made censor over the public readings of the poets in the Collegium Poetarum under Augustus (Ad Fam. vii. 1; A. P. 287).

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