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CAECILIUS , of Calacte (KaXil'Aurii) in Sicily, Greek rhetorician, flourished at Rome during the reign of Augustus
birth
Dionysius
Halicarnassus
critical examination of their works), the basis of the pseudo-Plutarchian treatise of the same name, in which Caecilius is frequently referred to; On the Sublime, attacked by (?) Longinus in his essay on the same subject (see L. Martens, De Libello IIEp ih/.ous, 1877) ; History of the Servile Wars, or slave risings in Sicily, the local interest
preface to his lexicon as one of his authorities; Against the Phrygians, probably an attack on the florid style of the Asiatic school of rhetoric.The fragments have been collected and edited by T. Burckhardt (1863), and E. Ofenloch (1907); some in C. W. Muller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii.; C. Bursian's Jahresbericht . . . der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, xxiii. (1896), contains full notices of recent
Hammer ; F. Blass, Griechische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus
Dionysius
Halicarnassus
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