Horace speaks of him as the inventor of Iambics, and calls himself his pupil.
Parios ego primus Iambos Ostendi Latio, numeros animosque secutus Archilochi, non res et agentia verba Lycamben.
Epist.

I.xix.

25.
And in another place he says, Archilochum proprio rabies armavit Iambo--A.P.

74.
[2] This was Livius Andronicus: he is supposed to have been a native of Tarentum, and he was made prisoner by the Romans, during their wars in Southern Italy; owing to which he became the slave of M.Livius Salinator.

He wrote both comedies and tragedies, of which Cicero (Brutus 18) speaks very contemptuously, as "Livianae fabulae non satis dignae quae iterum legantur"-- not worth reading a second time.