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Lord, a Roman poet! (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lucan

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'roman poet' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'lord a' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'a' could be 'an' and 'an' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for lucan that I've seen before include "Lord who famously went missing" , "Roman poet - vanishing lord" , "Roman poet; a missing Lord" , "Notorious fugitive peer" , "found in one of the gospels?" .)

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