Σύγκρισις
Δημοσθένους και Αισχίνου,
named Pomponius is clear from the phrase " tain | 7.
named Pomponius is clear from the phrase " tain | 7.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
s.
5.
) Again,
obscure passages of ecclesiastical and civil history, Sex. Caecilius is represented by Gellius as con-
and is peculiarly famous as containing a conteinpo- versing with Favorinus, and is spoken of in the
rary record of the alleged vision of Constantine Noctes Atticae as a person deceased.
“ Sextus
before the battle of the Milvian bridge, in conse- Caecilius, in disciplina juris atque legibus populi
quence of which he ordered the soldiers to engrave Romani noscendis interpretandisque scientia, usu,
upon their shields the well-known monogram re- auctoritateque illustri fuit. ” (Gell. xx. 1, pr. )
presenting the cross together with the initial let- Now Favorinus is known to have flourished in the
ters of the name of Christ (c. 44).
reign of Hadrian, and Gellius to have completed
This piece is altogether wanting in the earlier the Noctes Atticae before the death of Antoninus
editions of Lactantius, and was first brought to Pius. (a. D. 161. ) The passage in Gellius which
light by Stephen Baluze, who printed it at Paris would make the conversation take place nearly
in his Miscellanea (vol. ii. , 1679) from a very an- 700 years after the laws of the Twelve Tables
cient MS. in the Bibliotheca Colbertina, bearing were enacted, must be, if not a false reading, an
simply the inscription Lucu Cecilii INCIPIT LIBER error or exaggeration ; for at most little more than
AD DONATUM CONFESSOREM DE MORTIBUS PER- 600 years could have elapsed from a. U. c. 300 in
Baluze entertained no doubt that the lifetime of Gellius. if 600 be read for 700,
he had discovered the tract of Lactantius quoted the scene would be brought at furthest to a period
by Hieronymus as De Persecutione Libruin Unum, not far from the commencement (A. D. 138) of the
an opinion corroborated by the name prefixed reign of Antoninus Pius.
[LACTANTIUS], by the date, by the dedication to These arguments are not suficient to destroy
Donatus, apparently the same person with the Dow the probability arising from Dig. 35. tit. 3. s. 3.
natus addressed in the discourse De Ira Dei, and S 4, that Sex. Caecilius and Africanus are one
by the general resemblance in style and expression, person. In Dig. 24. tit. 1. s. 64, some have pro-
a series of considerations no one of which would posed to read Caelius instead of Caecilius, and thus
be in itself conclusive, but which when combined get rid of the passage which is the principal ground
form a strong chain of circumstantial evidence. for assigning an earlier date to Sex. Caecilius; but
Le Nourry, however, sought to prove that the pro- this mode of cutting the knot, though it is assisted
duction in question must be assigned to some by fair critical analogies, is unnecessary, for Javo-
unknown L. Caecilius altogether aifferent from lenus, as we learn from Capitolinus (Anton. Pius,
Lactantius, and published it at Paris in 1710 as 12), was living in the reign of Antoninus Pius,
“ Lucii Cecilii Liber ad Donatum Confessorem and a contemporary of Javolenus and Julianus
de Mortibus Persecutorum bactenus Lucio Caecilio might easily cite the younger, and be cited by the
Firmiano Lactantio adscriptus, ad Colbertinum elder of the two. The pupil in the master's life-
codicem denuo emendatus," to which is prefixed time may have acquired greater authority than the
an elaborate dissertation. His ideas have been
adopted to a certain extent by Pfaff, Walch, Le To assist the inquirer in investigating this ques-
Clerc, Lardner, and Gibbon, and controverted by tion-one of the most difficult and celebrated in
Heumann and others. Although the question can- the biography of Roman jurists—we subjoin a list
not be considered as settled, and indeed does not of the passages in the Corpus Juris where Caecilius
admit of being absolutely determined, the best or Caecilius Sextus is cited :- Caecilius: Dig. 15.
modern critics seem upon the whole disposed to tit. 2. s. 1. $7; 21. tit. 1. 6. 14. 3 (al. Caelius);
acquiesce in the original hypothesis of Baluze. 21. tit. 1. s. 14. § 10; 24. tit. 1. 6. 64 ; 35. tit. 2.
The most complete edition of the De Morti- 8. 36. & 4 ; 18. tit. 5. s. 2. & 5; Cod. 7. tit. 7. s. l,
bus Persecutorum in a separate form, is that pr. Sex. Caecilius : Dig. 24. tit. 1. 6. 2 ; 33. tit.
published at Utrecht in 1693, under the inspection 9. s. 3. $ 9 (qu. Sex. Aelius; compare Gell. iv. 1);
of Bauldri, with a very copious collection of notes, 35. tit. 1. s. 71, pr. ; 40. tit. 9. 8. 12. $ 2; 40.
forming one of the series of Variorum Classics in tit. 9. 12. $ 6; 48. tit. 5. 6. 13. & 1.
8vo. Other editions are enumerated in the account A jurist of the name Sextus is thrice quoted by
given of the works of LACTANTIUS. (W. R. ) Ulpian in the Digest (29. tit. 5. 6. 1. $ 27; 30.
SEX. CAECI'LIUS. A Roman jurist of this tit. un. s. 32, pr. ; 42. tit
. 4. 5. 7. $ 17). Whether
name is occasionally cited in the Corpus Juris, and this Sextus be identical with Sex. Caecilius must
is suspected by some authors to be distinct from be a matter of doubt. There may have been a
and earlier than Africanus. [APRICANUS, Sex. Sextus, known, like Gaius, by a single name.
CAECILIUS. ) In support of this opinion, not to There are, moreover, several jurists with the prae-
mention the corrupt passage of Lampridius (Aler. nomen Sextus named in the Digest, e. g. Sex.
Scv. 68), they urge that there is no proof, that the Aelius, Sex. Pedius, Sex. Pomponius. That there
Sex. Caecilius Africanus to whom Julianus returned were two jurists named Pomponius has been in-
an answer upon a legal question (Dig. 35. tit. 3. ferred from Dig. 28. tit. 5. s. 41, where Pomponius
6. 3. & 4) was identical with Africanus. He may appears to quote Sex. Pomponius. From this and
bave been a private person, and distinct from the from the other passages where Sex. Pomponius
jurists Sex. Caecilius and Africanus. This incon- | is named in full (Dig. 24. tit. 3. s. 44; 29. tit. 2.
master.
.
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628
CAECILIUS.
CAECILIUS.
“ Sextum quoque
99
B. 30. $ 6), the praenomen Sextus has been sup- gúrypauua. (Longin. de Sublim. 32. )
5. Пер.
posed to be distinctive of the elder Pomponius. 'AVTIQWtos oúrayna. (Plut. Vil. X Orat. p. 83:2,
But that Sextus, alone, did not designate any one e. ) 6.
Σύγκρισις Δημοσθένους και Αισχίνου,
named Pomponius is clear from the phrase " tain | 7. Σύγκρισις Δημοσθένους και Κικερώνος. (Ρlut.
Sextus quam Pomponius” in Dig. 30. tit. un. s. 32, Dem. 3. ) 8. Tepl iotopías. (Athen. xi. p. 466. ,
pr. , and from the similar phrase
9. Τίνι διαφέρει ο Αττικός ζηλος του 'Ασιανού.
et Pomponium” occurring in Vat. Frag. S 88, | 10. Περί Δημοσθένους, ποιοι αυτού γνήσιοι λόγοι
though Bethmann-Hollweg, the last editor (in the wal mooi voor. 11. Nepi Twv kaỞ iotoplav #
Bonn Corp. Jur. Rom. Antejust. 1. p. 255), has παρ’ ιστορίαν ειρημένων τους ρήτορσι. 12. Περί
thought proper to omit the et. From Dig. 42. tit. douaikan Tomeuwv. (Athen, vi. p. 272. ) 13. Kata
4. 8. 7. $ 19, Vat. Frag. $ 88, and Gaius, ii. 218, ppuy@v dúo. 14. Εκλογή λέξεων κατά στοιχείον.
we infer, that Sextus was contemporary with Ju- This work has been much used by Suidas. (See
ventius Celsus, the son, and that some of his works his preface. ) 15. Περί ύψους, was the first work
were digested by Julianus. If, then, Sextus be with this title in antiquity. (Longin. ); compare
identified with Sextus Caecilius and Africanus, Westermann, Gesch. der Gricch. Beredtsamk. $ 88,
Africanus must have lived rather earlier than is notes 16, &c. , $ 47, note 6, $ 57, note: 4. ) (L. S. ]
usually supposed, and can scarcely have been a CAECI’LIUS CORNUTUS. (CORNUTUS. )
pupil of Julianus. That, however, a pupil should CAECI'LIUS CYPRIA'NUS. (CYPRIANUS. ]
have been annotated by his preceptor is not with- Q. CAECI'LIUS EPIRO'TA, a grammarian,
out example, if we understand in its ordinary sense born at Tusculum, was a freedman of T. Pomponius
the expression “ Servius apud Alfenum notat," in Atticus, and taught the daughter of his patron,
Dig. 17. tit. 2. s. 35. ♡ 8. (See contra, Otto, in who was afterwards married to M. Agrippa. But,
Thes. Jur. Rom. v. 1614-5. )
suspected by Atticus of entertaining designs upon
A jurist named Publius Caecilius is spoken of his daughter, he was dismissed. He then lived on
by Rutilius (Vitae JCtorum, c. 45) as one of the the most intimate terms with Cornelius Gallus;
disciples of Servius Sulpicius ; but the name Pub- and, after the death of the latter, he opened a
lius Caecilius is a mere conjectural emendation for school at Rome for young men, and is said to have
Publicius Gellius, who figures in the text of Pom- been the first to dispute in Latin extempore, and
ponius, Dig. 1. tit. 2. I. un. § 44. The conjecture to give lectures upon Virgil and other modern
was invited by the unusual blending of two family poets. (Suet. Il. Gram. 16. )
names in Publicius Gellius. (Menagius, Amoen. CAECI’LIUS EUTY'CHIDES. [EUTYCHI-
Jur. cc. 22, 23; Heineccius, de Sexto Pomponio, des. ]
Opera, ed. Genev. ii. 77. )
[J. T. G. ]
CAECILIUS NATA'LIS. (NATALIS. )
CAECI'LIUS(Kalkinios)of Argos, is mentioned CAE'CILIUS RUFI'NUS. (RUFINUS. ]
by Athenaeus (i. p. 13) among the writers on the CAECILIUS SIMPLEX. (SIMPLEX. ]
art of fishing; but nothing further is known about CAECI'LIUS STA'TIUS, a Roman comic
him.
(L. S. ] poet, the immediate predecessor of Terence, was,
CAECI'LIUS BION. [Bion. ]
according to the accounts preserved by Aulus Gel-
CAECI’LIUS CALACTI'NUS (Kairiaios Ka- lius (iv. 20) and Hieronymus (in Euseb. Chron.
haktivos), or, as he was formerly, though erto Olymp. cl. 2), by birth an Insubrian Gaul, and a
neously, surnamed CALANTIANUS, à Greek native of Milan. Being a slave he bore the servile
rhetorician, who lived at Rome in the time of Au- appellation of Statius, which was afterwards, pro-
gustus. He was a native of Cale Acte in Sicily bably when he received his freedom, converted
(whence his name Calactinus). His parents are into a sort of cognomen, and he became known as
said by Suidas to have been slaves of the Jewish Caecilius Statius. His death happened B. c. 168,
religion ; and Caecilius himself, before he had ob- one year after that of Ennius and two years before
tained the Roman franchise, is said to have borne the representation of the Andria, which had been
the name Archagathus. He is mentioned by previously submitted to his inspection and had ex-
Quintilian (iii. 1. § 16, comp. iii. 6. § 47, v. 10. cited his warm admiration. (Sueton. Vit. Terent. )
§ 7, ix. l. $ 12, 3. SS 38, 46, 89, 91, 97) along The names of at least forty dramas by Caecilius
with Dionysius of Halicarnassus as a distinguished have been preserved, together with a considerable
Greek rhetorician and grammarian. Respecting number of fragments, but all of them are extremely
the sphere of his activity at Rome, and his success brief, the two longest extending one (ap. Aul. Geli.
as a teacher of rhetoric, nothing is known; but, ii. 23) to seventeen lines, and the other (Cic. de
from the title of one of his works, we see that he N. D. xxix. ) to twelve only. Hence we must
studied Roman oratory along with that of the rest satisfied with collecting and recording the
Greeks. He wrote a great number of works on opinions of those who had the means of forming an
rhetoric, grammar, and also on historical subjects. estimate of his powers, without attempting to judge
All these works are now lost; but they were in independently. The Romans themselves, then,
high repute with the rhetoricians and critics of the
seem to agree in placing Caecilius in the first rank
imperial period. (Plut. Dem. 3, Vit. X Orat. pp. of his own department, classing him for the most
832, 833, 836, 838, 840; Phot. Bibl. pp. 20, 485, part with Plautus and Terence. “ Caecilius excels
486, 489, ed. Bekker. ) Some of his works were in the arrangement of his plots, Terentius in the
of a theoretical character, others were commentaries development of character, Plautus in dialogue ;"
on the Greek orators, and others again were of a and again, “ None rival Titinnius and Terentius
grammatical or historical kind. The following list in depicting character, but Trabea and Atilius
is made up from that given by Suidas, and from and Caecilius at once command our feelings,” are
some passages of other writers: 1. Teplýmtopiañs. the observations of Varro (ap. Non. s. v. Poscere ;
(Suid. ; Quintil
. 1. c. ) 2. nepi oxnuátwv. (Alex Charis. lib. ii. sub fin. ):-“ We may pronounce
de Figur. ii. 2 ; Tiber. de Figur. passim. ), 3. Tepl Ennius chief among epic poets, Pacuvius among
χαρακτήρας των δέκα ρητόρων. 4. llep: Avolou tragic poets, perhaps Caecilius among comic poets,"
1
## p.
obscure passages of ecclesiastical and civil history, Sex. Caecilius is represented by Gellius as con-
and is peculiarly famous as containing a conteinpo- versing with Favorinus, and is spoken of in the
rary record of the alleged vision of Constantine Noctes Atticae as a person deceased.
“ Sextus
before the battle of the Milvian bridge, in conse- Caecilius, in disciplina juris atque legibus populi
quence of which he ordered the soldiers to engrave Romani noscendis interpretandisque scientia, usu,
upon their shields the well-known monogram re- auctoritateque illustri fuit. ” (Gell. xx. 1, pr. )
presenting the cross together with the initial let- Now Favorinus is known to have flourished in the
ters of the name of Christ (c. 44).
reign of Hadrian, and Gellius to have completed
This piece is altogether wanting in the earlier the Noctes Atticae before the death of Antoninus
editions of Lactantius, and was first brought to Pius. (a. D. 161. ) The passage in Gellius which
light by Stephen Baluze, who printed it at Paris would make the conversation take place nearly
in his Miscellanea (vol. ii. , 1679) from a very an- 700 years after the laws of the Twelve Tables
cient MS. in the Bibliotheca Colbertina, bearing were enacted, must be, if not a false reading, an
simply the inscription Lucu Cecilii INCIPIT LIBER error or exaggeration ; for at most little more than
AD DONATUM CONFESSOREM DE MORTIBUS PER- 600 years could have elapsed from a. U. c. 300 in
Baluze entertained no doubt that the lifetime of Gellius. if 600 be read for 700,
he had discovered the tract of Lactantius quoted the scene would be brought at furthest to a period
by Hieronymus as De Persecutione Libruin Unum, not far from the commencement (A. D. 138) of the
an opinion corroborated by the name prefixed reign of Antoninus Pius.
[LACTANTIUS], by the date, by the dedication to These arguments are not suficient to destroy
Donatus, apparently the same person with the Dow the probability arising from Dig. 35. tit. 3. s. 3.
natus addressed in the discourse De Ira Dei, and S 4, that Sex. Caecilius and Africanus are one
by the general resemblance in style and expression, person. In Dig. 24. tit. 1. s. 64, some have pro-
a series of considerations no one of which would posed to read Caelius instead of Caecilius, and thus
be in itself conclusive, but which when combined get rid of the passage which is the principal ground
form a strong chain of circumstantial evidence. for assigning an earlier date to Sex. Caecilius; but
Le Nourry, however, sought to prove that the pro- this mode of cutting the knot, though it is assisted
duction in question must be assigned to some by fair critical analogies, is unnecessary, for Javo-
unknown L. Caecilius altogether aifferent from lenus, as we learn from Capitolinus (Anton. Pius,
Lactantius, and published it at Paris in 1710 as 12), was living in the reign of Antoninus Pius,
“ Lucii Cecilii Liber ad Donatum Confessorem and a contemporary of Javolenus and Julianus
de Mortibus Persecutorum bactenus Lucio Caecilio might easily cite the younger, and be cited by the
Firmiano Lactantio adscriptus, ad Colbertinum elder of the two. The pupil in the master's life-
codicem denuo emendatus," to which is prefixed time may have acquired greater authority than the
an elaborate dissertation. His ideas have been
adopted to a certain extent by Pfaff, Walch, Le To assist the inquirer in investigating this ques-
Clerc, Lardner, and Gibbon, and controverted by tion-one of the most difficult and celebrated in
Heumann and others. Although the question can- the biography of Roman jurists—we subjoin a list
not be considered as settled, and indeed does not of the passages in the Corpus Juris where Caecilius
admit of being absolutely determined, the best or Caecilius Sextus is cited :- Caecilius: Dig. 15.
modern critics seem upon the whole disposed to tit. 2. s. 1. $7; 21. tit. 1. 6. 14. 3 (al. Caelius);
acquiesce in the original hypothesis of Baluze. 21. tit. 1. s. 14. § 10; 24. tit. 1. 6. 64 ; 35. tit. 2.
The most complete edition of the De Morti- 8. 36. & 4 ; 18. tit. 5. s. 2. & 5; Cod. 7. tit. 7. s. l,
bus Persecutorum in a separate form, is that pr. Sex. Caecilius : Dig. 24. tit. 1. 6. 2 ; 33. tit.
published at Utrecht in 1693, under the inspection 9. s. 3. $ 9 (qu. Sex. Aelius; compare Gell. iv. 1);
of Bauldri, with a very copious collection of notes, 35. tit. 1. s. 71, pr. ; 40. tit. 9. 8. 12. $ 2; 40.
forming one of the series of Variorum Classics in tit. 9. 12. $ 6; 48. tit. 5. 6. 13. & 1.
8vo. Other editions are enumerated in the account A jurist of the name Sextus is thrice quoted by
given of the works of LACTANTIUS. (W. R. ) Ulpian in the Digest (29. tit. 5. 6. 1. $ 27; 30.
SEX. CAECI'LIUS. A Roman jurist of this tit. un. s. 32, pr. ; 42. tit
. 4. 5. 7. $ 17). Whether
name is occasionally cited in the Corpus Juris, and this Sextus be identical with Sex. Caecilius must
is suspected by some authors to be distinct from be a matter of doubt. There may have been a
and earlier than Africanus. [APRICANUS, Sex. Sextus, known, like Gaius, by a single name.
CAECILIUS. ) In support of this opinion, not to There are, moreover, several jurists with the prae-
mention the corrupt passage of Lampridius (Aler. nomen Sextus named in the Digest, e. g. Sex.
Scv. 68), they urge that there is no proof, that the Aelius, Sex. Pedius, Sex. Pomponius. That there
Sex. Caecilius Africanus to whom Julianus returned were two jurists named Pomponius has been in-
an answer upon a legal question (Dig. 35. tit. 3. ferred from Dig. 28. tit. 5. s. 41, where Pomponius
6. 3. & 4) was identical with Africanus. He may appears to quote Sex. Pomponius. From this and
bave been a private person, and distinct from the from the other passages where Sex. Pomponius
jurists Sex. Caecilius and Africanus. This incon- | is named in full (Dig. 24. tit. 3. s. 44; 29. tit. 2.
master.
.
## p. 528 (#548) ############################################
628
CAECILIUS.
CAECILIUS.
“ Sextum quoque
99
B. 30. $ 6), the praenomen Sextus has been sup- gúrypauua. (Longin. de Sublim. 32. )
5. Пер.
posed to be distinctive of the elder Pomponius. 'AVTIQWtos oúrayna. (Plut. Vil. X Orat. p. 83:2,
But that Sextus, alone, did not designate any one e. ) 6.
Σύγκρισις Δημοσθένους και Αισχίνου,
named Pomponius is clear from the phrase " tain | 7. Σύγκρισις Δημοσθένους και Κικερώνος. (Ρlut.
Sextus quam Pomponius” in Dig. 30. tit. un. s. 32, Dem. 3. ) 8. Tepl iotopías. (Athen. xi. p. 466. ,
pr. , and from the similar phrase
9. Τίνι διαφέρει ο Αττικός ζηλος του 'Ασιανού.
et Pomponium” occurring in Vat. Frag. S 88, | 10. Περί Δημοσθένους, ποιοι αυτού γνήσιοι λόγοι
though Bethmann-Hollweg, the last editor (in the wal mooi voor. 11. Nepi Twv kaỞ iotoplav #
Bonn Corp. Jur. Rom. Antejust. 1. p. 255), has παρ’ ιστορίαν ειρημένων τους ρήτορσι. 12. Περί
thought proper to omit the et. From Dig. 42. tit. douaikan Tomeuwv. (Athen, vi. p. 272. ) 13. Kata
4. 8. 7. $ 19, Vat. Frag. $ 88, and Gaius, ii. 218, ppuy@v dúo. 14. Εκλογή λέξεων κατά στοιχείον.
we infer, that Sextus was contemporary with Ju- This work has been much used by Suidas. (See
ventius Celsus, the son, and that some of his works his preface. ) 15. Περί ύψους, was the first work
were digested by Julianus. If, then, Sextus be with this title in antiquity. (Longin. ); compare
identified with Sextus Caecilius and Africanus, Westermann, Gesch. der Gricch. Beredtsamk. $ 88,
Africanus must have lived rather earlier than is notes 16, &c. , $ 47, note 6, $ 57, note: 4. ) (L. S. ]
usually supposed, and can scarcely have been a CAECI’LIUS CORNUTUS. (CORNUTUS. )
pupil of Julianus. That, however, a pupil should CAECI'LIUS CYPRIA'NUS. (CYPRIANUS. ]
have been annotated by his preceptor is not with- Q. CAECI'LIUS EPIRO'TA, a grammarian,
out example, if we understand in its ordinary sense born at Tusculum, was a freedman of T. Pomponius
the expression “ Servius apud Alfenum notat," in Atticus, and taught the daughter of his patron,
Dig. 17. tit. 2. s. 35. ♡ 8. (See contra, Otto, in who was afterwards married to M. Agrippa. But,
Thes. Jur. Rom. v. 1614-5. )
suspected by Atticus of entertaining designs upon
A jurist named Publius Caecilius is spoken of his daughter, he was dismissed. He then lived on
by Rutilius (Vitae JCtorum, c. 45) as one of the the most intimate terms with Cornelius Gallus;
disciples of Servius Sulpicius ; but the name Pub- and, after the death of the latter, he opened a
lius Caecilius is a mere conjectural emendation for school at Rome for young men, and is said to have
Publicius Gellius, who figures in the text of Pom- been the first to dispute in Latin extempore, and
ponius, Dig. 1. tit. 2. I. un. § 44. The conjecture to give lectures upon Virgil and other modern
was invited by the unusual blending of two family poets. (Suet. Il. Gram. 16. )
names in Publicius Gellius. (Menagius, Amoen. CAECI’LIUS EUTY'CHIDES. [EUTYCHI-
Jur. cc. 22, 23; Heineccius, de Sexto Pomponio, des. ]
Opera, ed. Genev. ii. 77. )
[J. T. G. ]
CAECILIUS NATA'LIS. (NATALIS. )
CAECI'LIUS(Kalkinios)of Argos, is mentioned CAE'CILIUS RUFI'NUS. (RUFINUS. ]
by Athenaeus (i. p. 13) among the writers on the CAECILIUS SIMPLEX. (SIMPLEX. ]
art of fishing; but nothing further is known about CAECI'LIUS STA'TIUS, a Roman comic
him.
(L. S. ] poet, the immediate predecessor of Terence, was,
CAECI'LIUS BION. [Bion. ]
according to the accounts preserved by Aulus Gel-
CAECI’LIUS CALACTI'NUS (Kairiaios Ka- lius (iv. 20) and Hieronymus (in Euseb. Chron.
haktivos), or, as he was formerly, though erto Olymp. cl. 2), by birth an Insubrian Gaul, and a
neously, surnamed CALANTIANUS, à Greek native of Milan. Being a slave he bore the servile
rhetorician, who lived at Rome in the time of Au- appellation of Statius, which was afterwards, pro-
gustus. He was a native of Cale Acte in Sicily bably when he received his freedom, converted
(whence his name Calactinus). His parents are into a sort of cognomen, and he became known as
said by Suidas to have been slaves of the Jewish Caecilius Statius. His death happened B. c. 168,
religion ; and Caecilius himself, before he had ob- one year after that of Ennius and two years before
tained the Roman franchise, is said to have borne the representation of the Andria, which had been
the name Archagathus. He is mentioned by previously submitted to his inspection and had ex-
Quintilian (iii. 1. § 16, comp. iii. 6. § 47, v. 10. cited his warm admiration. (Sueton. Vit. Terent. )
§ 7, ix. l. $ 12, 3. SS 38, 46, 89, 91, 97) along The names of at least forty dramas by Caecilius
with Dionysius of Halicarnassus as a distinguished have been preserved, together with a considerable
Greek rhetorician and grammarian. Respecting number of fragments, but all of them are extremely
the sphere of his activity at Rome, and his success brief, the two longest extending one (ap. Aul. Geli.
as a teacher of rhetoric, nothing is known; but, ii. 23) to seventeen lines, and the other (Cic. de
from the title of one of his works, we see that he N. D. xxix. ) to twelve only. Hence we must
studied Roman oratory along with that of the rest satisfied with collecting and recording the
Greeks. He wrote a great number of works on opinions of those who had the means of forming an
rhetoric, grammar, and also on historical subjects. estimate of his powers, without attempting to judge
All these works are now lost; but they were in independently. The Romans themselves, then,
high repute with the rhetoricians and critics of the
seem to agree in placing Caecilius in the first rank
imperial period. (Plut. Dem. 3, Vit. X Orat. pp. of his own department, classing him for the most
832, 833, 836, 838, 840; Phot. Bibl. pp. 20, 485, part with Plautus and Terence. “ Caecilius excels
486, 489, ed. Bekker. ) Some of his works were in the arrangement of his plots, Terentius in the
of a theoretical character, others were commentaries development of character, Plautus in dialogue ;"
on the Greek orators, and others again were of a and again, “ None rival Titinnius and Terentius
grammatical or historical kind. The following list in depicting character, but Trabea and Atilius
is made up from that given by Suidas, and from and Caecilius at once command our feelings,” are
some passages of other writers: 1. Teplýmtopiañs. the observations of Varro (ap. Non. s. v. Poscere ;
(Suid. ; Quintil
. 1. c. ) 2. nepi oxnuátwv. (Alex Charis. lib. ii. sub fin. ):-“ We may pronounce
de Figur. ii. 2 ; Tiber. de Figur. passim. ), 3. Tepl Ennius chief among epic poets, Pacuvius among
χαρακτήρας των δέκα ρητόρων. 4. llep: Avolou tragic poets, perhaps Caecilius among comic poets,"
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