Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), D, D, Damasippus

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Damasippus

Licinius.

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A Roman praetor, B.C. 81, an adherent of Marius, and put to death by order of Sulla (Sall. Cat. 51, 32).

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A contemporary of Cicero, who mentions him as a lover of statues, and speaks of purchasing a garden from Damasippus. He is probably the same person as the Damasippus ridiculed by Horace (Hor. Sat. ii. 3, 16, 64). It appears from Horace that Damasippus had become bankrupt, in consequence of which he intended to put an end to himself; but he was prevented by the Stoic Stertinius, and then turned Stoic himself, or at least affected to be one.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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