Publilius
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Roman writer of mimes, praised by Seneca for eloquent philosophical verses.
How many lines of Publilius ought to be spoken not by actors in slippers, but by actors in the buskin!
One verse of his that bears upon philosophy and upon this very part that was just now in our hands, I will quote—the verse in which he denies that what is fortuitous should be reckoned our own:
On Tranquillity of Mind
Roman writer of mimes, praised as more forceful than tragedians and comedians when serious.
Publilius, more forceful than the writers of tragedy and comedy whenever he left aside the trivialities of mime and words aimed at the topmost rows of the gallery, said among many other things that are stronger than the buskin, let alone the curtain of farce, this also: