See also:

• PUBLILIUS (less correctly PUBLIUS) SYRUS

PUBLILIUS (less correctly PUBLIUS) SYRUS  , a Latin writer of mimes, flourished in the 1st See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C . He was a native of See also:

• SYRIA

Syria and was brought as a slave to See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, but by his wit andtalent he won the favour of his See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master, who freed and educated him . His mimes, in which he acted himself, had a See also:

• GREAT

great success in the provincial towns of Italy and at the See also:

• GAMES, CLASSICAL

games given by See also:

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

Caesar in 46 B.C . See also:

• PUBLILIUS (less correctly PUBLIUS) SYRUS

Publilius was perhaps even more famous as an See also:

• IMPROVISATORE

improvisatore, and received from Caesar himself the See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize in a contest in which he vanquished all his competitors, including the celebrated Decimus See also:

• LABERIUS, DECIMUS (c. 105–43 B.C.)

Laberius . All that remains of his See also:

• WORKS

works is a collection of Sentences (Sententiae), a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of moral See also:

• MAXIMS, LEGAL

maxims in See also:

• IAMBIC

iambic and See also:

• TROCHAIC (from Gr. rpoxalos, rpoxaixos; Lat. trochaeus)

trochaic See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse . This collection must have been made at a very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early date, since it was known to Aulus See also:

• GELLIUS, AULUS (c. A.D. 13o-I8o)

Gellius in the 2nd century A.D . Each See also:

• MAXIM, SIR HIRAM STEVENS (184o- )

maxim is comprised in a single verse, and the verses are arranged in alphabetical See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order according to their initial letters . In course of See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time the collection was interpolated with sentences See also:

• DRAWN

drawn from other writers, especially from apocryphal writings of See also:

• SENECA

Seneca; the number of genuine verses is about 700 . They include many pithy sayings, such as the famous " judex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur " (adopted as its See also:

• MOTTO (an Italian word, from Late Lat. muttum, a low sound, a mutter or murmur, cf. mutere, to mutter; the Latin word also gives Fr. mot, word)

motto by the See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review) . The best texts of the Sentences are those of E . Wolfflin (1869) A . Spengel (1874) and W .

See also:

• MEYER, CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON (18or-1869)
• MEYER, HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM (1800-1873)
• MEYER, JULIUS LOTHAR (183o-1895)
• MEYER, KONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898)
• MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

Meyer (188o), with See also:

• COMPLETE

complete See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical apparatus and See also:

• INDEX

index verborum; See also:

• RECENT

recent See also:

• EDITIONS

editions with notes by O . See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

Friedrich (188o), R . A . H . Bickford-See also:

• SMITH
• SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
• SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
• SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
• SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
• SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
• SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
• SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
• SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
• SMITH, G
• SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
• SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
• SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
• SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
• SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
• SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
• SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
• SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
• SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
• SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
• SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
• SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
• SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
• SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
• SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
• SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
• SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
• SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
• SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
• SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
• SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)

Smith (1895), with full bibliography; see also W . Meyer, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Sammlungen der Spruchverse See also:

• DES

des Publilius Syrus (1877), an important See also:

• WORK

work .