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death are not known. The name seems to show that he was a freedman of some member of the Clodian gens. Cicero was on friendly terms with both him and Roscius, the equally distinguished comedian, and did not disdain to profit by their instruction. See also:

Plutarch '(Cicero, 5) mentions it as reported of Aesopus, that, while representing See also:

ATREUS

Atreus deliberating how he should revenge himself on Thyestes, the actor forgot himself so far in the See also:

HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat of See also:

ACTION

action that with his truncheon he struck and killed one of the servants See also:

CROSSING

crossing the See also:

STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage. Aesopus made a last See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance in 55 B.c.—when Cicero tells us that he was advanced in years—on the occasion of the splendid See also:

GAMES, CLASSICAL

games given 'by See also:

POMPEY

Pompey at the See also:

DEDICATION (Lat. dedicatio, from dedicare, to proclaim, to announce)

dedication of his See also:

THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre. In spite of his somewhat extravagant living, he See also:

LEFT

left, an ample See also:

FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune to his spendthrift son, who did his best to squander it as soon as possible. See also:

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace (Sat. iii. 3. 239) mentions his taking a See also:

pearl from the See also:

EAR (common Teut.; O.E. are, Ger. Ohr, Du. oor, akin to Lat. auris, Gr. ovs)

ear-drop of See also:

Caecilia Metella and dissolving it in See also:

VINEGAR

vinegar, that he might have the See also:

SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

satisfaction of swallowing eight thousand pounds' See also:

worth at a See also:

DRAUGHT (from the common Teutonic word " to draw "; cf. Ger. 7'racht, load; the pronunciation led to the variant form " draft," now confined to certain specific meanings)

draught. Cicero, De Divinatione, i. 37; See also:

pro Sestio, 56, 58; Quint., Distil. Xi.

3, III ; See also:

MACROBIUS, AMBROSIUS THEODOSIUS

Macrobius, Sat. iii. 14.

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