Graeci'nus, Ju'lius
was put to death by Caligula because it was inexpedient for a tyrant to have so virtuous a subject. (Senec.
de Benef. 2.21.) Seneca records some terse and pithy sayings of Graecinus (
l.c. and
Ep. 29).
The name Graecinus occurs in the Fasti among the consules suffecti of the year A. D. 16, and in Pliny (
H. N. Elench. xiv. xv. xvi. xvii. xviii. and 14.2.33). From the contents of the books for which Pliny consulted the writings of Graecinus, he appears to have written on botany or viticulture.
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