Caesarius is
celebrated
in the Rom-
reception of his mother at Rome, and from the ish Church on Feb.
reception of his mother at Rome, and from the ish Church on Feb.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
He was in
volumes. This was one of Caesar's works which the army of the great Caesar in Spain in B. c. 49, and
Augustus suppressed. (Suet. I. c. ; Cic. ad Fam.
was sent by the latter as ambassador to M. Terentius
ix. 16. ) 8. “ Poemata. ” Two of these written Varro. At the conclusion of the Alexandrine war,
in his youth, “ Laudes Herculis” and a tragedy B. c. 47, Sex. Caesar was placed over Syria, where
Oedipus,” were suppressed by Augustus. He he was killed in the following year by his own sol-
also wrote several epigrams, of which three are diers at the instigation Caecilius Bassus, who
preserved in the Latin Anthology. (Nos. 68—, had revolted against the dictator. (Caes. B. C. ii.
70, ed. Meyer. ) There was, too, an astronomical 20; Hirt. B. Alex. 66 ; Dion Cass. xlvii. 26 ; Ap-
poem of Caesar's, probably in imitation of Aratus's, pian, B. C. iii. 77; compare Bassus, Caecilius. )
and lastly one entitled “ Iter,” descriptive of his C. CAESAR and L. CAESAR, the sons of M.
journey from the city to Spain, which he wrote at Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia, and the grandsons of
the latter end of the year B. C. 46, while he was Augustus. Caius was born in B. c. 20 and Lucius
on this journey.
in B. c. 17, and in the latter year they were both
The editio princeps of Caesar's Commentaries adopted by Augustus. In B. c. 13, Caius, who
was printed at Rome in 1449, fol. Among the was then only seven years of age, took part with
subsequent editions, the most important are by other patrician youths in the Trojan game at the
Jungermann, containing a Greek translation of the dedication of the temple of Marcellus by Augustus.
seven books of the Gallic war made by Planudes In B. C. 8, Caius accompanied Tiberius in his
(Francf
. 1606, 4to. , and 1669, 4to. ); by Graevius, campaign against the Sigambri in order to become
with the life of Caesar, ascribed to Julius Celsus acquainted with military exercises. Augustus
(Amst. 1697, 8vo. , and Lug. Bat. 1713, 8vo. ); by carefully superintended the education of both the
Cellarius (Lips. 1705); by Davis, with the Greek youths, but they early shewed signs of an arrogant
translation of Planudes (Cant. 1706, 1727, 4to. ); and overbearing temper, and importuned their
by Oudendorp (Lugd. Bat. 1737, 4to. , Stuttgard, grandfather to bestow upon them public marks of
1822, 8ro. ); by Morus (Lips. 1780, 8vo. ), re- honour. Their requests were seconded by the
edited by Oberlin (Lips. 1805, 1819, 8vo. ). entreaties of the people, and granted by Augustus,
(The principal ancient sources for the life of who, under the appearance of a refusal, was ex-
Caesar are the biographies of him by Suetonius ceedingly anxious to grant them the honours they
and Plutarch, the histories of Dion Cassius, Appian, solicited. Thus they were declared consuls elect
and Velleius Paterculus, and the letters and orations and principes juventutis before they had laid aside
of Cicero. The life of Caesar ascribed to Julius the dress of childhood. Caius was nominated to
Celsus, of Constantinople, who lived in the seventh the consulship in B. C. but was not to enter
century after Christ, is a work of Petrarch's, as upon it till five years afterwards. He assumed
has been shewn by C. E. Ch. Schneider in his the toga virilis in the same year, and his brother
work entitled “ Petrarchae, Historia Julii Cae- | in B. C. 2.
## p. 556 (#576) ############################################
556
CAESARION.
CAESARIUS.
Caius was sent into Asia in B. c. 1, where he | Suet. Caes. 52, Aug. 17; Plut. Caes. 49, Anton.
passed his consulship in the following year, A. n. 1. 54, 81, 82. )
About this time Phraates IV. , king of Parthia, CAESARIUS, ST. (Kaioáperos), a physician
seized upon Armenia, and Caius accordingly pre- who is however better known as having been the
pared to make war against him, but the Parthian brother of St. Gregory Theologus. He was born of
king gave up Armenia, and settled the terms of Christian parents, his father (whose name was Gre-
peace at an interview with Caius on an island in gory) being bishop of Nazianzis. He was care-
the Euphrates. (A. D. 2. ) After this Caius went fully and religiously educated, and studied at Alex-
to take possession of Armenia, but was treacher- andria, where he made great progress in geometry,
ously wounded before the town of Artagera in astronomy, arithmetic, and medicine. He after-
this country. Of this wound he never recovered, wards embraced the medical profession, and settled
and died some time afterwards at Limyra in Lycia, at Constantinople, where he enjoyed a great repu-
on the 21st of February, A. D. 4. His brother tation, and became the friend and physician of the
Lucius had died eighteen months previously, on emperor Constantius, A. D. 337–360. Upon the
August 20th, A. D. 2, at Massilia, on his way to accession of Julian, Caesarius was tempted by the
Spain. Their bodies were brought to Rome. emperor to apostatize to paganism; but he refused,
Some suspected that their death was occasioned and chose rather to leave the court and return to
by their step-mother Livia. (Dion Cass. liv. his native country. After the death of Julian, he
8, 18, 26, lv. 6, 9, 11, 12; Zonar. x. p. 539 ; was recalled to court, and held in high esteem by
Suet. Aug. 26, 56, 64, 65, Tib. 12; Vell. Pat. ii
. the emperors Jovian, Valens, and Valentinian, by
101, 102; Tac. Ann. i. 3, ii. 4; Florus, iv. 12. one of whom he was appointed quaestor of Bithy-
'$ 42; Lapis Ancyranus. )
nia. At the tiine of the earthquake at Nicaea, he
C. Caesar married Livia or Livilla, the daughter was preserved in a very remarkable manner, upon
of Antonia (ANTONIA, No. 6], who afterwards which his brother St. Gregory took occasion to
married the younger Drusus, but he left no issue. write a letter (which is still extant, Ep. 20, vol. ii.
(Tac. Ann. iv. 40. ) L. Caesar was to have married p. 19, ed. Paris, 1840), urging upon him the duty
Aemilia Lepida, but died previously. (Ann. iii. of abandoning all worldly cares, and giving himself
23. ) There are several coins both of Caius and up entirely to the service of God. This he had long
Lucius : their portraits are given in the one an- wished to do, but was now prevented from putting
nexed. (Eckkel, vi. p. 170. )
his design into execution by his death, which took
place A. D. 369, shortly after his baptism. His
brother pronounced a funeral oration on the occa-
sion, which is still extant (Orat. 7, vol. i. p. 198),
and from which the preceding particulars of his life
are taken ; and also wrote several short poems, or
epitaphs, lamenting his death. (Opera, vol. ii. p.
| 1110, &c. ) There is extant, under the name of
Caesarius, a short Greek work, with the title
llevoets, Quaestiones Theologicae et Philosophicue,
which, though apparently considered, in the time
C. CAESAR CALIGULA. [CALIGULA. ] of Photius ( Biblioth. Cod. 210), to belong to the bro-
CAESA’RION, the son of Cleopatra, originally ther of St. Gregory, is now generally believed to be
called Ptolemaeus as an Egyptian prince, was born the work of some other person. The contents of
soon after the departure of Julius Caesar from the book are sufficiently indicated by the title. It
Alexandria in B. c. 47, and probably accompanied has been several times published with the works of
his mother to Rome in the following year. Cleo- his brother, St. Gregory, and in collections of the
patra said that he was the son of Julius Caesar, Fathers; and also separately, in Greek and Latin,
and there seems little doubt of this from the time August. Vindel. 1626, 4to. ed. Elias Ehinger. The
at which Caesarion was born, from the favourable memory of St.
Caesarius is celebrated in the Rom-
reception of his mother at Rome, and from the ish Church on Feb. 25. (Acta Sanctorum, Feb. 25,
dictator allowing him to be called after his own vol. v. p. 496, &c. ; Lambec. Biblioth. Vindob. vol.
name. Antonius declared in the senate, doubtless iv. p. 66, &c. , ed. Kollar ; Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol.
after Caesar's death and for the purpose of annoy- viii. pp. 435, 436. )
[W. A. G. ]
ing Augustus, that the dictator had acknowledged CAESARIUS, a distinguished ecclesiastic of
Caesarion as his son ; but Oppius wrote a treatise the fifth and sixth centuries, was born at Chalons
to prove the contrary.
in 468, devoted his youth to the discipline of a
In consequence of the assistance which Cleopatra monastic life, and was elected bishop of Arles in
had afforded Dolabella, she obtained from the tri- 502. He presided over this see for forty years,
umvirs in B. C. 42 permission for her son Caesarion during which period he was twice accused of trea-
to receive the title of king of Egypt. In B. C. 34, son, first against Alaric, and afterwards against
Antony conferred upon him the title of king of Theodoric, but upon both occasions was honourably
kings; he subsequently called him in his will the acquitted. He took an active share in the delibe-
son of Caesar, and after the battle of Actium (B. C. rations of several councils of the church, and gained
31) declared him and his own son Antyllus to be peculiar celebrity by his strenuous exertions for
of age. When everything was lost, Cleopatra sent the suppression of the Semipelagian doctrines,
Caesarion with great treasures by way of Aethiopia which had been promulgated about a century be-
to India ; but his tutor Rhodon persuaded him to fore by Cassianus, and had spread widely in south-
return, alleging that Augustus had determined to ern Gaul. A life of Caesarius, which however
give him the kingdom of Egypt. After the death must be considered rather in the light of a pane-
of his mother, he was executed by crder of Augus- gyric than of a sober biography, was composed by
tus. (Dion Cass. xlvii. 31, xlix. 41, 1. 1, 3, li. 6; his friend and pupil, Cyprian, bishop of Toulon.
CAESS
SOS
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CAESIA GENS.
557
CAESIUS.
a
Caesarius is the author of two treatises, one en- CAESIANUS, APRONIUS. (APRONIUS,
titled Regula ad Monachos, and another Regula | No. 3. )
ad Virgines, which, together with three Exhorta- CAÉ'SIUS. 1. M. Caesius, was praetor with
tiones and some opuscula, will be found in the 8th C. Licinius Sacerdos in B. C. 75. (Cic. Verr. i. 50. )
volume of the Bibliotheca Patrum, Leyden, 1677; 2. M. Caesius, a rapacious farmer of the tithes
and were printed in a sepnrate volume, with the in Sicily during the administration of Verres, B. C.
notes of Meynardus, at Poitiers (Petavium), 1621, 73, &c. (Cic. Verr. iii. 39, 43. )
8vo. His chief works, however, consist of ser- 3. L. Caesius, was one of Cicero's friends, and
mons or homilies. Forty of these were published accompanied him during his proconsular adminis-
by Cognatus, at Basle, 1558, 4to. , and 1569, fol. , | tration of Cilicia, in B. C. 50. (Al Quint. Frut. i. 1.
and are included in the Monumenta SS. Patrum $ 4, 2. $ 2. ) He seems to be the same person as
Orthodoxographa of Grynacus, Cologne, 1618, fol. the Caesius who superintended the building of Q.
p. 1861; a collection of forty-six, together with Cicero's villa of the Manilianum. (Ad Quini. Frut.
some smaller tracts, are in the 8th volume of the iii. 1. SS 1, 2. ) There is a Roman denarius bear-
Bibliotheca Patrum referred to above; and the ing the name L. Caesius (see above), but whether
Ilth voluine of the Bibliotheca Patrum of Galland | it belongs to our L. Caesius or not cannot be ascer-
(Venice, 1776) contains fourteen more, first brought tained.
to light by Baluze (Paris, 1699, 8vo. ); but, be- 4. M. Caesius, of Arpinum, an intimate friend
sides thesc, upwards of a hundred out of the 317 of Cicero, who held the office of aedile at Arpinum,
discourses falsely attributed to Augustin are com- the only municipium which had such a magistracy,
monly assigned to Caesarius. (Vita S. Caesarii, in B. C. 47. (Cic. ad Fam. xiii. 11, 12. )
Episc. Arelatensis, a Cypriano, ejus Discipulo, et
5. P. Caesius, a Roman eques of Ravenna, re-
Messiano Presb. et Stephano Diac. conscripta dua ceived the Roman franchise from Cn. Pompeius,
bus libris, in the Vilae SS. of Surius, 27 August. the father of Pompey the Great. (Cic. pro Balb.
p. 284. See also Dissertatio de Vita ct Scriptis 22. ) There is a letter of Cicero (ad Fam. xlii. 51)
S. Caesarii, Arelatensis Archicp. , by Oudin in his addressed to P. Caesius (B. C. 47), in which Cicero
Comment. de Scriptt. Eccles. vol. i. p. 1339 ; in ad recommends to him his friend P. Messienus. From
dition to which, Funccius, De Inerti et Decrepita the manner in which Cicero there speaks (pro
Senectute Linguae Latinue, cap. vi. Sviii. ; and Baehr, nostra et pro paterna amicitia), it would almost
Geschichte der Römischen Literatur, Suppl. vol. ii.
seem as if there was some mistake in the praeno-
P. 425. )
(W. R. ] men, and as if the letter was addressed to M.
CAESENNIUS, the name of a noble Etruscan Caesius of Arpinum. But it may be, that there
family at Tarquinii, two members of wbich are men- had existed a friendship between Cicero and the
tioned by Cicero, namely, P. Caesennius and Cae- father of Caesius, of which beyond this allusion
sennia, first the wife of M. Fulcinius, and after- nothing is known.
wards of A. Caecina. (Cic. pro Caecin. 4, 6, 10. )
6. Sex. Caesius, a Roman eques, who is men-
The name is found in sepulchral inscriptions. tioned by Cicero (pro Flacc. 28) as a man of great
(Müller, Etrusker, i. p. 433. )
honesty and integrity.
[L. S. )
CAESENNIUS LENTO. (LENTO. ]
T. CAE'SIUS, a jurist, one of the disciples of
CAESE'NNIUS PAETUS. [Paetus. ]
Servius Sulpicius, the eminent friend of Cicero.
C. CAE'SETIUS, a Roman knight, who en Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. 6. un. Ø 44) enumerates
treated Caesar to pardon Q. Ligarius. (Cic
. pro ten disciples of Servius, among whom T. Caesius
Lig. 11. )
is mentioned, in a passage not free from the inac-
P. CAESE'TIUS, the quaestor of C. Verres. curacy of expression which pervades the whole
(Cic. Verr. iv. 65, v. 25. )
title De Origine Juris. His words are these :
CAESETIUS FLAVUS. [Flavus.
volumes. This was one of Caesar's works which the army of the great Caesar in Spain in B. c. 49, and
Augustus suppressed. (Suet. I. c. ; Cic. ad Fam.
was sent by the latter as ambassador to M. Terentius
ix. 16. ) 8. “ Poemata. ” Two of these written Varro. At the conclusion of the Alexandrine war,
in his youth, “ Laudes Herculis” and a tragedy B. c. 47, Sex. Caesar was placed over Syria, where
Oedipus,” were suppressed by Augustus. He he was killed in the following year by his own sol-
also wrote several epigrams, of which three are diers at the instigation Caecilius Bassus, who
preserved in the Latin Anthology. (Nos. 68—, had revolted against the dictator. (Caes. B. C. ii.
70, ed. Meyer. ) There was, too, an astronomical 20; Hirt. B. Alex. 66 ; Dion Cass. xlvii. 26 ; Ap-
poem of Caesar's, probably in imitation of Aratus's, pian, B. C. iii. 77; compare Bassus, Caecilius. )
and lastly one entitled “ Iter,” descriptive of his C. CAESAR and L. CAESAR, the sons of M.
journey from the city to Spain, which he wrote at Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia, and the grandsons of
the latter end of the year B. C. 46, while he was Augustus. Caius was born in B. c. 20 and Lucius
on this journey.
in B. c. 17, and in the latter year they were both
The editio princeps of Caesar's Commentaries adopted by Augustus. In B. c. 13, Caius, who
was printed at Rome in 1449, fol. Among the was then only seven years of age, took part with
subsequent editions, the most important are by other patrician youths in the Trojan game at the
Jungermann, containing a Greek translation of the dedication of the temple of Marcellus by Augustus.
seven books of the Gallic war made by Planudes In B. C. 8, Caius accompanied Tiberius in his
(Francf
. 1606, 4to. , and 1669, 4to. ); by Graevius, campaign against the Sigambri in order to become
with the life of Caesar, ascribed to Julius Celsus acquainted with military exercises. Augustus
(Amst. 1697, 8vo. , and Lug. Bat. 1713, 8vo. ); by carefully superintended the education of both the
Cellarius (Lips. 1705); by Davis, with the Greek youths, but they early shewed signs of an arrogant
translation of Planudes (Cant. 1706, 1727, 4to. ); and overbearing temper, and importuned their
by Oudendorp (Lugd. Bat. 1737, 4to. , Stuttgard, grandfather to bestow upon them public marks of
1822, 8ro. ); by Morus (Lips. 1780, 8vo. ), re- honour. Their requests were seconded by the
edited by Oberlin (Lips. 1805, 1819, 8vo. ). entreaties of the people, and granted by Augustus,
(The principal ancient sources for the life of who, under the appearance of a refusal, was ex-
Caesar are the biographies of him by Suetonius ceedingly anxious to grant them the honours they
and Plutarch, the histories of Dion Cassius, Appian, solicited. Thus they were declared consuls elect
and Velleius Paterculus, and the letters and orations and principes juventutis before they had laid aside
of Cicero. The life of Caesar ascribed to Julius the dress of childhood. Caius was nominated to
Celsus, of Constantinople, who lived in the seventh the consulship in B. C. but was not to enter
century after Christ, is a work of Petrarch's, as upon it till five years afterwards. He assumed
has been shewn by C. E. Ch. Schneider in his the toga virilis in the same year, and his brother
work entitled “ Petrarchae, Historia Julii Cae- | in B. C. 2.
## p. 556 (#576) ############################################
556
CAESARION.
CAESARIUS.
Caius was sent into Asia in B. c. 1, where he | Suet. Caes. 52, Aug. 17; Plut. Caes. 49, Anton.
passed his consulship in the following year, A. n. 1. 54, 81, 82. )
About this time Phraates IV. , king of Parthia, CAESARIUS, ST. (Kaioáperos), a physician
seized upon Armenia, and Caius accordingly pre- who is however better known as having been the
pared to make war against him, but the Parthian brother of St. Gregory Theologus. He was born of
king gave up Armenia, and settled the terms of Christian parents, his father (whose name was Gre-
peace at an interview with Caius on an island in gory) being bishop of Nazianzis. He was care-
the Euphrates. (A. D. 2. ) After this Caius went fully and religiously educated, and studied at Alex-
to take possession of Armenia, but was treacher- andria, where he made great progress in geometry,
ously wounded before the town of Artagera in astronomy, arithmetic, and medicine. He after-
this country. Of this wound he never recovered, wards embraced the medical profession, and settled
and died some time afterwards at Limyra in Lycia, at Constantinople, where he enjoyed a great repu-
on the 21st of February, A. D. 4. His brother tation, and became the friend and physician of the
Lucius had died eighteen months previously, on emperor Constantius, A. D. 337–360. Upon the
August 20th, A. D. 2, at Massilia, on his way to accession of Julian, Caesarius was tempted by the
Spain. Their bodies were brought to Rome. emperor to apostatize to paganism; but he refused,
Some suspected that their death was occasioned and chose rather to leave the court and return to
by their step-mother Livia. (Dion Cass. liv. his native country. After the death of Julian, he
8, 18, 26, lv. 6, 9, 11, 12; Zonar. x. p. 539 ; was recalled to court, and held in high esteem by
Suet. Aug. 26, 56, 64, 65, Tib. 12; Vell. Pat. ii
. the emperors Jovian, Valens, and Valentinian, by
101, 102; Tac. Ann. i. 3, ii. 4; Florus, iv. 12. one of whom he was appointed quaestor of Bithy-
'$ 42; Lapis Ancyranus. )
nia. At the tiine of the earthquake at Nicaea, he
C. Caesar married Livia or Livilla, the daughter was preserved in a very remarkable manner, upon
of Antonia (ANTONIA, No. 6], who afterwards which his brother St. Gregory took occasion to
married the younger Drusus, but he left no issue. write a letter (which is still extant, Ep. 20, vol. ii.
(Tac. Ann. iv. 40. ) L. Caesar was to have married p. 19, ed. Paris, 1840), urging upon him the duty
Aemilia Lepida, but died previously. (Ann. iii. of abandoning all worldly cares, and giving himself
23. ) There are several coins both of Caius and up entirely to the service of God. This he had long
Lucius : their portraits are given in the one an- wished to do, but was now prevented from putting
nexed. (Eckkel, vi. p. 170. )
his design into execution by his death, which took
place A. D. 369, shortly after his baptism. His
brother pronounced a funeral oration on the occa-
sion, which is still extant (Orat. 7, vol. i. p. 198),
and from which the preceding particulars of his life
are taken ; and also wrote several short poems, or
epitaphs, lamenting his death. (Opera, vol. ii. p.
| 1110, &c. ) There is extant, under the name of
Caesarius, a short Greek work, with the title
llevoets, Quaestiones Theologicae et Philosophicue,
which, though apparently considered, in the time
C. CAESAR CALIGULA. [CALIGULA. ] of Photius ( Biblioth. Cod. 210), to belong to the bro-
CAESA’RION, the son of Cleopatra, originally ther of St. Gregory, is now generally believed to be
called Ptolemaeus as an Egyptian prince, was born the work of some other person. The contents of
soon after the departure of Julius Caesar from the book are sufficiently indicated by the title. It
Alexandria in B. c. 47, and probably accompanied has been several times published with the works of
his mother to Rome in the following year. Cleo- his brother, St. Gregory, and in collections of the
patra said that he was the son of Julius Caesar, Fathers; and also separately, in Greek and Latin,
and there seems little doubt of this from the time August. Vindel. 1626, 4to. ed. Elias Ehinger. The
at which Caesarion was born, from the favourable memory of St.
Caesarius is celebrated in the Rom-
reception of his mother at Rome, and from the ish Church on Feb. 25. (Acta Sanctorum, Feb. 25,
dictator allowing him to be called after his own vol. v. p. 496, &c. ; Lambec. Biblioth. Vindob. vol.
name. Antonius declared in the senate, doubtless iv. p. 66, &c. , ed. Kollar ; Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol.
after Caesar's death and for the purpose of annoy- viii. pp. 435, 436. )
[W. A. G. ]
ing Augustus, that the dictator had acknowledged CAESARIUS, a distinguished ecclesiastic of
Caesarion as his son ; but Oppius wrote a treatise the fifth and sixth centuries, was born at Chalons
to prove the contrary.
in 468, devoted his youth to the discipline of a
In consequence of the assistance which Cleopatra monastic life, and was elected bishop of Arles in
had afforded Dolabella, she obtained from the tri- 502. He presided over this see for forty years,
umvirs in B. C. 42 permission for her son Caesarion during which period he was twice accused of trea-
to receive the title of king of Egypt. In B. C. 34, son, first against Alaric, and afterwards against
Antony conferred upon him the title of king of Theodoric, but upon both occasions was honourably
kings; he subsequently called him in his will the acquitted. He took an active share in the delibe-
son of Caesar, and after the battle of Actium (B. C. rations of several councils of the church, and gained
31) declared him and his own son Antyllus to be peculiar celebrity by his strenuous exertions for
of age. When everything was lost, Cleopatra sent the suppression of the Semipelagian doctrines,
Caesarion with great treasures by way of Aethiopia which had been promulgated about a century be-
to India ; but his tutor Rhodon persuaded him to fore by Cassianus, and had spread widely in south-
return, alleging that Augustus had determined to ern Gaul. A life of Caesarius, which however
give him the kingdom of Egypt. After the death must be considered rather in the light of a pane-
of his mother, he was executed by crder of Augus- gyric than of a sober biography, was composed by
tus. (Dion Cass. xlvii. 31, xlix. 41, 1. 1, 3, li. 6; his friend and pupil, Cyprian, bishop of Toulon.
CAESS
SOS
## p. 557 (#577) ############################################
CAESIA GENS.
557
CAESIUS.
a
Caesarius is the author of two treatises, one en- CAESIANUS, APRONIUS. (APRONIUS,
titled Regula ad Monachos, and another Regula | No. 3. )
ad Virgines, which, together with three Exhorta- CAÉ'SIUS. 1. M. Caesius, was praetor with
tiones and some opuscula, will be found in the 8th C. Licinius Sacerdos in B. C. 75. (Cic. Verr. i. 50. )
volume of the Bibliotheca Patrum, Leyden, 1677; 2. M. Caesius, a rapacious farmer of the tithes
and were printed in a sepnrate volume, with the in Sicily during the administration of Verres, B. C.
notes of Meynardus, at Poitiers (Petavium), 1621, 73, &c. (Cic. Verr. iii. 39, 43. )
8vo. His chief works, however, consist of ser- 3. L. Caesius, was one of Cicero's friends, and
mons or homilies. Forty of these were published accompanied him during his proconsular adminis-
by Cognatus, at Basle, 1558, 4to. , and 1569, fol. , | tration of Cilicia, in B. C. 50. (Al Quint. Frut. i. 1.
and are included in the Monumenta SS. Patrum $ 4, 2. $ 2. ) He seems to be the same person as
Orthodoxographa of Grynacus, Cologne, 1618, fol. the Caesius who superintended the building of Q.
p. 1861; a collection of forty-six, together with Cicero's villa of the Manilianum. (Ad Quini. Frut.
some smaller tracts, are in the 8th volume of the iii. 1. SS 1, 2. ) There is a Roman denarius bear-
Bibliotheca Patrum referred to above; and the ing the name L. Caesius (see above), but whether
Ilth voluine of the Bibliotheca Patrum of Galland | it belongs to our L. Caesius or not cannot be ascer-
(Venice, 1776) contains fourteen more, first brought tained.
to light by Baluze (Paris, 1699, 8vo. ); but, be- 4. M. Caesius, of Arpinum, an intimate friend
sides thesc, upwards of a hundred out of the 317 of Cicero, who held the office of aedile at Arpinum,
discourses falsely attributed to Augustin are com- the only municipium which had such a magistracy,
monly assigned to Caesarius. (Vita S. Caesarii, in B. C. 47. (Cic. ad Fam. xiii. 11, 12. )
Episc. Arelatensis, a Cypriano, ejus Discipulo, et
5. P. Caesius, a Roman eques of Ravenna, re-
Messiano Presb. et Stephano Diac. conscripta dua ceived the Roman franchise from Cn. Pompeius,
bus libris, in the Vilae SS. of Surius, 27 August. the father of Pompey the Great. (Cic. pro Balb.
p. 284. See also Dissertatio de Vita ct Scriptis 22. ) There is a letter of Cicero (ad Fam. xlii. 51)
S. Caesarii, Arelatensis Archicp. , by Oudin in his addressed to P. Caesius (B. C. 47), in which Cicero
Comment. de Scriptt. Eccles. vol. i. p. 1339 ; in ad recommends to him his friend P. Messienus. From
dition to which, Funccius, De Inerti et Decrepita the manner in which Cicero there speaks (pro
Senectute Linguae Latinue, cap. vi. Sviii. ; and Baehr, nostra et pro paterna amicitia), it would almost
Geschichte der Römischen Literatur, Suppl. vol. ii.
seem as if there was some mistake in the praeno-
P. 425. )
(W. R. ] men, and as if the letter was addressed to M.
CAESENNIUS, the name of a noble Etruscan Caesius of Arpinum. But it may be, that there
family at Tarquinii, two members of wbich are men- had existed a friendship between Cicero and the
tioned by Cicero, namely, P. Caesennius and Cae- father of Caesius, of which beyond this allusion
sennia, first the wife of M. Fulcinius, and after- nothing is known.
wards of A. Caecina. (Cic. pro Caecin. 4, 6, 10. )
6. Sex. Caesius, a Roman eques, who is men-
The name is found in sepulchral inscriptions. tioned by Cicero (pro Flacc. 28) as a man of great
(Müller, Etrusker, i. p. 433. )
honesty and integrity.
[L. S. )
CAESENNIUS LENTO. (LENTO. ]
T. CAE'SIUS, a jurist, one of the disciples of
CAESE'NNIUS PAETUS. [Paetus. ]
Servius Sulpicius, the eminent friend of Cicero.
C. CAE'SETIUS, a Roman knight, who en Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. 6. un. Ø 44) enumerates
treated Caesar to pardon Q. Ligarius. (Cic
. pro ten disciples of Servius, among whom T. Caesius
Lig. 11. )
is mentioned, in a passage not free from the inac-
P. CAESE'TIUS, the quaestor of C. Verres. curacy of expression which pervades the whole
(Cic. Verr. iv. 65, v. 25. )
title De Origine Juris. His words are these :
CAESETIUS FLAVUS. [Flavus.
