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AFER, DOMITIUS

AFER, DOMITIUS , a See also:

ROMAN

Roman orator and See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate, See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Nemausus (See also:

Nimes) in Gallia Narbonensis, flourished in the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, See also:

Claudius and See also:

NERO (37-68)

Nero. His See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil See also:

QUINTILIAN [MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIANUS] (C. A.D. 35-95)

Quintilian calls him the greatest orator he had ever known; but he disgraced his talents by acting as public informer against some of the most distinguished personages in See also:

Rome. He gained the favour of Tiberius by accusing Claudia Pulcra, the widow of Germanicus, of See also:

ADULTERY (from Lat. adulterium)

adultery and the use of magic arts against the See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor. Judicious flattery secured him the See also:

consul-See also:

SHIP

ship under Caligula (39) ; and under Nero he was See also:

SUPERINTENDENT

superintendent of the See also:

WATER

water See also:

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply. He died A.D. 6o, according to See also:

Jerome, of over-eating. Quintilian quotes some of his witty sayings (dicta), collections of which were published, and mentions two books by him On Witnesses. Quintilian, Instit. vi. 3. 42, viii. 5. 16, x.

I. r18, &c.; Tac. See also:

Ann. iv. 52 ; Dio See also:

Cassius See also:

FIX, THEODORE (180o-1846)

fix. 19, lx. 33 ; See also:

Pliny, Epp. viii. 18.

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