Titus Quinctius Atta was a Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 writer, was, like Titinius

Titinius

Titinius was a nomen of ancient Rome.* Marcus Titinius, tribune 450 BC* Lucius Titinius Pansa Saccus, consular tribune 400 BC, 396 BC* Marcus Titinius, magister equitum 302 BC* Gaius Titinius Gadaeus, bandit in slave revolt used by Gaius Marius...

 and Afranius

Lucius Afranius (poet)

Lucius Afranius was an ancient Roman comic poet, who lived at the beginning of the 1st century BC. His comedies described Roman scenes and manners and the subjects were mostly taken from the life of the lower classes...

, distinguished as a writer of fabulae togatae, national comedies. He had the reputation of being a vivid delineator of character, especially female. He also seems to have published a collection of epigram

Epigram

An epigram is a brief, interesting, usually memorable and sometimes surprising statement. Derived from the epigramma "inscription" from ἐπιγράφειν epigraphein "to write on inscribe", this literary device has been employed for over two millennia....

s. The scanty fragments contain many archaisms, but are lively in style. According to Horace

Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.-Life:...

 (Epistles, ii 1. 79) the plays of Atta were still put on the stage in his time. Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius , was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office...

 vii. 9; fragments in Neukirch, De fabula togata 18 manorum (1833); Ribbeck, Comicorum Latinorum reliquiae (1855).