Accius was politically conservative, and generally noted for his dignity and reserve. He did, however, believe that one with literary gifts, such as himself, ought to be accorded more respect than someone who, through no effort of their own, was merely born into the nobility.[1] He was, by some accounts, a self-important man,[14] and some writers expressed a wry amusement at the larger-than-life statues of himself that he had erected in the temple of the Muses.[15]