DECIMUS See also:

• DECIMUS LABERIUS (c. 105–43 B.C.)

LABERIUS (c. 105–43 B.C.)  , See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)
• KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGWAY (1845– )
• KNIGHT, JOHN BUXTON (1843–1908)

knight and writer of mimes . He seems to have been a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of See also:

• CAUSTIC (Gr. rcavvraubs, burning)

caustic wit, who wrote for his own See also:

• PLEASURE (through Fr. plaisir from Lat. placere, to please; Gr. rlbovii)

pleasure . In 45 See also:

• JULIUS

Julius See also:

• CAESAR, GAIUS JULIUS (102—44 B.c.)
• CAESAR, SIR JULIUS (1557-1558-1636)

Caesar ordered him to appear in one of his own mimes in a public contest with the actor See also:

• PUBLILIUS (less correctly PUBLIUS) SYRUS

Publilius Syrus . See also:

• LABERIUS, DECIMUS (c. 105–43 B.C.)

Laberius pronounced a dignified See also:

• PROLOGUE (from Gr. 7rpo, before, and Myer, a word)

prologue on the degradation thus thrust on his sixty years, and directed several See also:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

sharp allusions against the See also:

• DICTATOR (from the Lat. dictare, frequentative of dicere, to speak)

dictator . Caesar awarded the victory to Publilius, but restored Laberius to his equestrian See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank, which he had forfeited by appearing as a mimus (See also:

• MACROBIUS, AMBROSIUS THEODOSIUS

Macrobius, Sat. ii . 7) . Laberius was the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief of those who introduced the mimus into Latin literature towards the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the republican See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period . He seems to have been a man of learning and culture, but his pieces did not See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape the coarseness inherent to the class of literature to which they belonged; and Aulus See also:

• GELLIUS, AULUS (c. A.D. 13o-I8o)

Gellius (xvi . 7, 1) accuses him of extravagance in the coining of new words . See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace (Sat. i . 1o) speaks of him in terms of qualified praise . In addition to the prologue (in Macrobius), the titles of See also:

• FORTY

forty-four of his mimi have been preserved; the fragments have been collected by O .

See also:

• RIBBECK, JOHANN CARL OTTO (1827-1898)

Ribbeck in his Comicorum Latinorum reliquiae (1873) .