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CESTIUS, LUCIUS

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 768 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CESTIUS, LUCIUS , surnamed Plus, Latin rhetorician, flourished during the reign of
Augustus
 . He was a native of Smyrna, a
Greek
  by
birth
 . According to Jerome, he was teaching Latin at Rome in the year 13 B. C. He must have been living after A.D. 9, since, we are told that he taunted the son of Quintilius Varus with his father's defeat in the Teutoburgian forest (
Seneca
 , Controv. i. 3, 10). Cestius was a man of
great
  ability, but vain, quarrelsome and sarcastic. Before he left
Asia
 , he was invited to dinner by Cicero's son, then
governor
  of the province. His host, being uncertain 'a, to his identity, asked a slave who Cestius was; and on receiving the answer, " he is the man who said your father was illiterate," ordered him to be flogged (
Seneca
 , Suasoriae, vii. 13). As an orator in the schools Cestius enjoyed a
great
  reputation, and was worshipped by his youthful pupils, one of whom imitated him so slavishly that he was nicknamed " my
monkey
  by his teacher (Seneca, Controv. ix. 3, 12). As a public orator, on the other hand, he was a failure. Although a
Greek
 , he always used Latin in his declamations, and, although he was sometimes at a loss for Latin words, he never suffered from lack of ideas. Numerous specimens of his declamations will be found in the works of Seneca the rhetorician.
See the monograph De Lucio Cestio Pio, by F. G. Lindner (1858) ;
Brzoska in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie, iii. 2 (1899); euffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Lit. (Eng. tr.), 268, 6; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur, ii.


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