DOMITIUS See also:

• DOMITIUS AFER

AFER  , a See also:

• ROMAN

Roman orator and See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate, See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Nemausus (See also:

• NIMES
• NIMES, COUNCILS OF (Concilia Nemausensia)

Nimes) in Gallia Narbonensis, flourished in the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, See also:

• CLAUDIUS
• CLAUDIUS [TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS DRUSUS NERO GERMANICUS]
• CLAUDIUS, MARCUS AURELIUS
• CLAUDIUS, MATTHIAS (174o-1815)

Claudius and See also:

• NERO (37-68)

Nero . His See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil See also:

• QUINTILIAN [MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIANUS] (C. A.D. 35-95)

Quintilian calls him the greatest orator he had ever known; but he disgraced his talents by acting as public informer against some of the most distinguished personages in See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome . He gained the favour of Tiberius by accusing Claudia Pulcra, the widow of Germanicus, of See also:

• ADULTERY (from Lat. adulterium)

adultery and the use of magic arts against the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor . Judicious flattery secured him the See also:

• CONSUL
• CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)

consul-See also:

• SHIP

ship under Caligula (39) ; and under Nero he was See also:

• SUPERINTENDENT

superintendent of the See also:

• WATER

water See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply . He died A.D . 6o, according to See also:

• JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA (1859– )
• JEROME, ST (HIERONYMUS, in full EUSEBIUS SOPHRONIUS HIERONYMUS) (c. 340–420)

Jerome, of over-eating . Quintilian quotes some of his witty sayings (dicta), collections of which were published, and mentions two books by him On Witnesses . Quintilian, Instit. vi . 3 . 42, viii . 5 . 16, x .

I. r18, &c.; Tac . See also:

• ANN

Ann. iv . 52 ; Dio See also:

• CASSIUS
• CASSIUS, AVIDIUS (d. A.D. 175)
• CASSIUS, GAIUS

Cassius See also:

• FIX, THEODORE (180o-1846)

fix . 19, lx . 33 ; See also:

• PLINY, THE ELDER
• PLINY, THE YOUNGER

Pliny, Epp. viii . 18 .