Carmen de bello Aegyptiaco (or Actiaco)
Edward Courtney
The title given to a poem of which 52 more or less complete hexameters in eight columns and a number of fragments survive on PHerc. 817, published in 1809 by Ciampitti and attributed by him and many ...
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Carmen de figuris
Otto Skutsch and M. Winterbottom
Anonymous Latin poem (c.400 ce), dedicated to *Arusianus Messius, and describing figures of speech in 186 hexameters. Three lines are devoted to each figure, defining it and giving one or two ...
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Carmen Priami
Peter G. M. Brown
Carmen Priami (‘The Song of Priam’), a poem in *Saturnian verse, of which *Varro, Ling. 7. 28 quotes one line; an archaizing composition, apparently written after and in ...
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Carmen Saliare
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Carmen Saliare or Carmina Saliaria, the ancient hymn(s) of the *Salii in *Saturnian verse, unintelligible (Hor. Epist. 2. 1. 85–6; Quint. Inst. 1. 6. 40) despite commentaries ...
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Cassiodorus, Roman magistrate, author of political and religious works, c. 485–c. 580 CE
M. Shane Bjornlie
Cassiodorus was a prominent participant in the political, intellectual, and religious life of 6th-century ce Italy, and a learned scholar of the classical and Christian traditions. As a ...
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Cassius Severus
M. Winterbottom
Some thought he marked a turning-point in Roman oratory (Tac. Dial. 19). A vivid picture is painted by the elder Seneca (Controv. 3 pref.). He was exiled on a charge of *maiestas under Augustus and ...
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Catullus (1), Gaius Valerius, Roman poet
Julia Haig Gaisser
He was born to a distinguished and wealthy family of *Verona around 84 bce and died after 54, probably in Rome. His dates are incorrectly reported in the Chronicle of Jerome as 87 to 58, but Jerome's ...
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Catullus (2), writer of mime
Elaine Fantham
Writer of *mime in or before the mid-1st cent. ce (Juv. 8. 185 ff., 13. 111; Mart. 5. 30. 3) whose lost works include Phasma (‘The Ghost’), called clamosum (‘noisy’) by Juvenal, and Laureolus, the ...
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cento, Latin
Stephen Harrison
The extant Latin tradition of cento (the replication and combination of verse lines from a previous text to make a new work) largely uses the hexameter poems of Virgil, familiar to all educated ...
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Cestius Pius, Lucius, Augustan rhetor
M. Winterbottom
Lucius Augustanrhetor Cestius Pius, from *Smyrna. He is frequently cited by the elder *Seneca, who comments on his outspoken wit. He was once flogged by Cicero's son (M. *Tullius Cicero ...
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Charisius, Flavius Sosipater
R. A. Kaster
Flavius Charisius (late 4th cent. ce), compiled an Ars grammatica in five books (ed. K. Barwick, 1925), juxtaposing passages of basic school grammar with excerpts from more learned sources ...
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Cincius Alimentus, Lucius, Roman senator and historian
Alexander Hugh McDonald and Antony Spawforth
Lucius Cincius Alimentus, Roman senator and historian, was praetor in Sicily in 210/9 bce, and was captured by Hannibal (Livy 21. 38. 3). His history of Rome, written in Greek, set the foundation of ...
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Claudian, poet, b. c. 370 CE
J. H. D. Scourfield
A native of Egypt, he came to Italy c.394 and, turning from Greek to Latin, made an immediate impact in Rome with a verse *panegyric praising his young patrons, Olybrius and Probinus, as they entered ...
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Claudius Atticus Herodes (2), Tiberius, 'Herodes Atticus'
Ewen Bowie and Antony Spawforth
Tiberius (Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes) Claudius Atticus Herodes (2), ‘Herodes Atticus’ (c. 101–77 ce), celebrated Athenian sophist and benefactor of Greek cities, ...
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Claudius Balbillus, Tiberius, Roman tribunus militum and author, 43 CE
Howard Hayes Scullard and Barbara Levick
Probably a son of Tiberius *Claudius Thrasyllus and shared his astrological lore. (See astrology.) He was ADC (praefectus fabrum, see fabri) to *Claudius and tribune of Legio XX in the invasion of ...
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Cloatius Verus, Augustan lexicographer and antiquarian
R. A. Kaster
Augustan lexicographer and antiquarian who wrote on the meanings of Greek words and on Latin words derived from Greek. He is probably the ‘Cloatius’ whom *Verrius Flaccus cites (with L. ...
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Clodius Quirinalis, Publius
M. Winterbottom
Publius Clodius Quirinalis, from Arelate (mod. Arles) in Gaul, said by *Jerome to have taught rhetoric at Rome c.
