Ninnius Crassus

Ninnius Crassus was a Roman writer who translated the Greek Iliad into Latin hexameters. Nothing about his life is known. He may have lived in the early 1st century BC. Only one and a half lines of Ninnius' translation are extant. They are:

socii, nunc fite uiri, quoted by Nonius Marcellus
man non coniui oculos ego deinde sopore, quoted by Priscian

According to Reinhold Glei, commenting on the quality of the poetry, "the loss of the poem is perhaps not a very painful one".