Quintus Caecilius

Role: grammaticus and freedman · First appears: Grammarians 16

Life events

Quintus Caecilius was freed by Atticus Satrius.(Grammarians 16)
- With: Atticus Satrius
- “QUINTUS CAECILIUS, an Epirot by descent, but born at Tusculum, was a freedman of Atticus Satrius”
Quintus Caecilius became tutor to his patron’s daughter.(Grammarians 16)
- “He became the tutor of his patron’s daughter”
Quintus Caecilius was sent away after suspicion of illicit intercourse with his patron’s daughter.(Grammarians 16)
- “but being suspected of an illicit intercourse with her, and sent away on that account”
Quintus Caecilius joined Cornelius Gallus and lived with him intimately.(Grammarians 16)
- With: Cornelius Gallus
- “he betook himself to Cornelius Gallus, and lived with him on terms of the greatest intimacy”
Quintus Caecilius opened a school.(Grammarians 16)
- “he opened a school”
Quintus Caecilius began lecturing on Virgil and other modern poets.(Grammarians 16)
- “who began to lecture on Virgil and the other modern poets”

patron: Atticus Satrius “QUINTUS CAECILIUS, an Epirot by descent, but born at Tusculum, was a freedman of Atticus Satrius, a Roman knight, to whom Cicero addressed his Epistles.”
friends with Cornelius Gallus “he betook himself to Cornelius Gallus, and lived with him on terms of the greatest intimacy”
with Domitius Marcus (Domitius Marcus's verse points out Quintus Caecilius's teaching practice.) “He was the first, it is said, who held disputations in Latin, and who began to lecture on Virgil and the other modern poets; which the verse of Domitius Marcus points out.”

Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.