Caecilius
historical figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
that Caecilian character
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Roman comic playwright, author of the Synephebi.
'Am I,' says he, 'to read the Synephebi of Caecilius or the Andria of Terence rather than both plays of Menander?
For both the man in Trabea calls excessive gladness of mind 'pleasure' — the same as that Caecilian character who tells that he is glad with all gladnesses.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman comic poet whose line about wisdom beneath a poor cloak is cited.
Here Socrates is mentioned, here Diogenes, here that line of Caecilius:
Whom Caecilius thinks anyone who does not reckon the highest god, either a fool or unskilled in things, \"in whose hand it is whom he wishes to be mad, whom to be wise, whom to be healed, whom to be cast into disease, whom to be loved in return, whom to be sought, whom to be summoned.
Letters to Lucilius
A usurer mentioned as an example of harsh money-lending
how harsh a usurer is Caecilius, from whom his kinsmen cannot move a coin at less than twelve per cent.