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Caecilius, Caecilia, Caecilium

Caecilius

adjective (2-1-2)

name of a Roman gens.
His son of the same name, called also Balearicus, for his triumph over the Baleares
the Roman name of
daughters of Q. Caecilius Metellus the elder
daughter of Metellus Balearicus
a Roman comic poet, of the ante-class. per

Abbreviations

Caecilius, a, name of a Roman gens. C. Caecilius, Cic. Fl. 36.

— Q. Caecilius Metellus, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 5; Cic. Fin. 5, 27, 82.

— His son of the same name, called also Balearicus, for his triumph over the Baleares, Cic. Brut. 74, 259; Flor. 3, 8, 1.

— Caia (Gaia) Caecilia, the Roman name of Tanaquil, Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 194.

— Caeciliae, daughters of Q. Caecilius Metellus the elder, Cic. Dom. 47, 123.

— Caecilia, daughter of Metellus Balearicus, Cic. Div. 1, 44, 99, and 2, 40, 83.

— Caecilius Statius, a Roman comic poet, of the ante-class. per., of Gallic origin, contemporary with Ennius; his comedies were by the ancients considered equal to those of Plaut. and Ter., and by many even preferred to them, Varr. ap. Non. p. 374, 8; Cic. Opt. Gen. 1, 2; id. de Or. 2, 10, 40; id. Att. 7, 3, 10; id. Brut. 74, 258; Hor. A. P. 54 sq.; Quint. 10, 1, 99; Vulcatius Sedigitus ap. Gell. 15, 24.

— Derivv. Cae-cilius, a, um, adj., Caecilian, of Caecilius: familia, Vell. 2, 11; cf.: lex de ambitu, Cic. Sull. 22, 62: lex de repetundis, Val. Max. 6, 9, 10: et Didia lex de legibus ferendis, Cic. Att. 2, 9, 1; id. Phil. 5, 3, 8; id. Dom. 16, 41; 20, 53; id. Sest. 64, 135.

— Caeciliā-nus, a, um, adj., Caecilian: fabula, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 15: senex (in a comedy of Caecilius), id. Rosc. Am. 16, 46: pater, Quint. 11, 1, 39; Cic. Tusc. 3, 23, 56: cerasa, Plin. 15, 25, 30, § 102: lactuca (named after Q. Caecilius Metellus), id. 19, 8, 38, § 127; cf. Col. 10, 182.

—Also, Caeciliānus, i, m., a Roman cognomen, Tac. A. 3, 37; 6, 7; 16, 34.