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ROMAN AUTHORS QUOTED.
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Curio[1] the Elder, Cælius[2], Arruntius[3], Sebosus[4], Licinius Mucianus[5], Fabricius Tuscus[6], L. Ateius[7], Capito[8], Verrius Flaccus[9], L. Piso[10], Gellianus[11], and Valerianus[12].

FOREIGN AUTHORS QUOTED.-Artemidorus[13], Alexander

    the first Roman author who wrote a treatise on Geography. It is still extant, and bears marks of great care, while it is written in pure and un- affected language.

  1. ↑ C. Scribonius Curio, the third known of that name. He was the first Roman general who advanced as far as the Danube. Like his son of the same name, he was a violent opponent of Julius Cæsar. He was eloquent as an orator, but ignorant and uncultivated. His orations were published, as also an invective against Cæsar, in form of a dialogue, in which his son was introduced as one of the interlocutors. He died B.C. 53.
  2. ↑ L. Cælius Antipater. See end of B. ii.
  3. ↑ L. Arruntius, Consul, A.D. 6. Augustus declared in his last illness that he was worthy of the empire. This, with his riches and talents, rendered him an object of suspicion to Tiberius. Being charged as an accomplice in the crimes of Albucilla, he put himself to death by opening his veins. It appears not to be certain whether it was this person or his father who wrote a history of the first Punic war, in which he imitated the style of Sallust.
  4. ↑ Statius Sebosus. See end of B. ii.
  5. ↑ Licinius Crassus Mucianus. See end of B. ii.
  6. ↑ Of this writer no particulars whatever are known.
  7. ↑ In most editions this name appears as L. Ateius Capito, but Sillig separates them, and with propriety it would appear, as the name of Capito the great legist was not Lucius. Ateius here mentioned was probably the person surnamed Prætextatus, and Philologus, a freedman of the jurist Ateius Capito. For Sallust the historian he composed an Abstract of Roman History, and for Asinius Pollio he compiled precepts on the Art of Writing. His Commentaries were numerous, but a few only were surviving in the time of Suetonius.
  8. ↑ C. Ateius Capito, one of the most famous of the Roman legists, and a zealous partisan of Augustus, who had him elevated to the Consulship A.D. 5. He was the rival of Labeo, the republican jurist. His legal works were very voluminous, and extracts from them are to be found in the Digest. He also wrote a work on the Pontifical Rights and the Law of Sacrifices.
  9. ↑ A distinguished grammarian of the latter part of the first century B.C. He was entrusted by Augustus with the education of his grandsons Caius and Lucius Cæsar. He died at an advanced age in the reign of Tiberius. He wrote upon antiquities, history, and philosophy: among his numerous works a History of the Etruscans is mentioned, also a treatise on Orthography. Pliny quotes him very frequently.
  10. ↑ See end of B. ii.
  11. ↑ He is mentioned in c. 17, but nothing more is known of him
  12. ↑ Nothing is known of him. The younger Pliny addressed three Epistles to a person of this name, B. ii. Ep. 15, B. v. Ep. 4. 14.
  13. ↑ See end of B. ii.
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