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Cestius, Cestiī

Cestius

noun (m., 2^nd -IUS declension)

the name of a Roman plebeian family
a rhetorician of Smyrna

Abbreviations

Cestius, ii, m., the name of a Roman plebeian family. C. Cestius, Cic. Phil. 3, 10, 26.

— L. Cestius Pius, a rhetorician of Smyrna, Sen. Contr. 3, prooem. p. 206, 3 al.

—Hence, Cestiānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to L. Cestius: color, Sen. Contr. 1, 7, p. 125.