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AESOPUS, CLODIUS

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 277 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AESOPUS, CLODIUS , the most eminent Roman tragedian, flourished during the time of Cicero, but the
dates
  of his
birth
  and death are not known. The name seems to show that he was a freedman of some member of the Clodian gens. Cicero was on friendly terms with both him and Roscius, the equally distinguished comedian, and did not disdain to profit by their instruction.
Plutarch
  '(Cicero, 5) mentions it as reported of Aesopus, that, while representing
Atreus
  deliberating how he should revenge himself on Thyestes, the actor forgot himself so far in the heat of action that with his truncheon he struck and killed one of the servants crossing the stage. Aesopus made a last
appearance
  in 55 B.c.when Cicero tells us that he was advanced in yearson the occasion of the splendid
games
  given 'by Pompey at the dedication of his theatre. In spite of his somewhat extravagant living, he left, an ample fortune to his spendthrift son, who did his best to squander it as soon as possible.
Horace
  (Sat. iii. 3. 239) mentions his taking a pearl from the ear-drop of Caecilia Metella and dissolving it in vinegar, that he might have the
satisfaction
  of swallowing eight thousand pounds' worth at a
draught
 .
Cicero, De Divinatione, i. 37; pro Sestio, 56, 58; Quint., Distil. Xi. 3, III ;
Macrobius
 , Sat. iii. 14.


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