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Ursus

A contemporary of the emperor Domitian, whom he dissuaded from killing his wife Domitia. Statius addressed to him a poem of consolation on the death of a favourite slave ( Silv. ii. 6), and he also mentions him in the preface to the second book of his Silvae.

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