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CESTIUS, LUCIUS

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CESTIUS, See also:LUCIUS , surnamed Plus, Latin rhetorician, flourished during the reign of See also:Augustus. He was a native of See also:Smyrna, a See also:Greek by See also:birth. According to See also:Jerome, he was teaching Latin at See also:Rome in the See also:year 13 B. C. He must have been living after A.D. 9, since, we are told that he taunted the son of Quintilius Varus with his See also:father's defeat in the Teutoburgian See also:forest (See also:Seneca, Controv. i. 3, 10). Cestius was a See also:man of See also:great ability, but vain, quarrelsome and sarcastic. Before he See also:left See also:Asia, he was invited to See also:dinner by See also:Cicero's son, then See also:governor of the See also:province. His See also:host, being uncertain 'a, to his identity, asked a slave who Cestius was; and on receiving the See also:answer, " he is the man who said your father was illiterate," ordered him to be flogged (Seneca, Suasoriae, vii. 13). As an orator in the See also:schools Cestius enjoyed a great reputation, and was worshipped by his youthful pupils, one of whom imitated him so slavishly that he was nicknamed " my See also:monkey by his teacher (Seneca, Controv. ix.

3, 12). As a public orator, on the other See also:

hand, he was a failure. Although a Greek, he always used Latin in his declamations, and, although he was sometimes at a loss for Latin words, he never suffered from lack of ideas. Numerous specimens of his declamations will be found in the See also:works of Seneca the rhetorician. See the monograph De Lucio Cestio Pio, by F. G. Lindner (1858) ; Brzoska in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie, iii. 2 (1899); euffel-See also:Schwabe, Hist. of See also:Roman Lit. (Eng. tr.), § 268, 6; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, ii.

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