Quintus Caecilius Epirota

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Quintus Caecilius Epirota († after 26 BC) was a Latin grammarian of the second half of the 1st century BC. Chr.

Life

Quintus Caecilius Epirota, born in Tusculum , is best known for Sueton's biographical outline in his work on grammarians and rhetoricians. Accordingly, he was a freedman of Cicero's correspondent Titus Pomponius Atticus . He received his first two name components due to the fact that Atticus had been adopted in his will by his maternal uncle, Quintus Caecilius; his epithet Epirota could go back to the possessions of Atticus in Epirus .

Some time after Atticus' daughter Caecilia Attica around 37 BC. When she married Augustus ' friend Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa , she became the pupil of Caecilius Epirota. When the latter was suspected of having started an intimate relationship with her, he had to say goodbye (before 28 BC) and went to see Gaius Cornelius Gallus , who was himself an important poet of love strategies and was very accommodating to the grammarian . This behavior is said to have contributed significantly to the fact that Cornelius Gallus lost the friendship of the emperor Augustus. In any case, he was 27/26 BC. BC condemned and committed suicide. Thereupon Caecilius Epirota opened a school, but taught relatively few, mostly older students.

According to Suetonius, Caecilius Epirota was supposedly the first to hold disputes in Latin on the spot. He is also said to have been the first to declare Virgil and other then current poets; the epigrammatist Domitius Marsus made a scornful comment on this. The year of his death has not been recorded, and works by him are unknown.

swell

  • Sueton , De grammaticis et rhetoribus sixteenth

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cornelius Nepos , Atticus 5, 2.
personal data
SURNAME Caecilius Epirota, Quintus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latin grammarian
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 26 BC Chr.