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Caecĭlĭus , a,
I.name of a Roman gens.
1. C. Caecilius, Cic. Fl. 36.—
2. Q. Caecilius Metellus, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 5; Cic. Fin. 5, 27, 82.—
3. His son of the same name, called also Balearicus, for his triumph over the Baleares, Cic. Brut. 74, 259; Flor. 3, 8, 1.—
4. Caia (Gaia) Caecilia, the Roman name of Tanaquil, Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 194.—
5. Caeciliae, daughters of Q. Cœcilius Metellus the elder, Cic. Dom. 47, 123.—
6. Caecilia, daughter of Metellus Balearicus, Cic. Div. 1, 44, 99, and 2, 40, 83.—
7. Caecilius Statius, a Roman comic poet, of the ante-class. per., of Gallic origin, contemporary with Ennius; his comedies were by the ancients considered equal to those of Plaut. and Ter., and by many even preferred to them, Varr. ap. Non. p. 374, 8; Cic. Opt. Gen. 1, 2; id. de Or. 2, 10, 40; id. Att. 7, 3, 10; id. Brut. 74, 258; Hor. A. P. 54 sq.; Quint. 10, 1, 99; Vulcatius Sedigitus ap. Gell. 15, 24.—
II. Derivv.
A. Cae-cĭlĭus , a, um, adj., Cœcilian, of Cœcilius: “familia,Vell. 2, 11; cf.: “lex de ambitu,Cic. Sull. 22, 62: “lex de repetundis,Val. Max. 6, 9, 10: “et Didia lex de legibus ferendis,Cic. Att. 2, 9, 1; id. Phil. 5, 3, 8; id. Dom. 16, 41; 20, 53; id. Sest. 64, 135.—
2. Caecĭlĭānus , i, m., a Roman cognomen, Tac. A. 3, 37; 6, 7; 16, 34.
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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 8.8.5
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 1.16.15
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 2.9.1
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 7.3.10
    • Cicero, On his House, 47.123
    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 16.46
    • Cicero, For Sulla, 22.62
    • Cicero, On his House, 16.41
    • Cicero, For Sestius, 64.135
    • Cicero, Philippics, 5.3.8
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 54
    • Tacitus, Annales, 3.37
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.10
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 5.27
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.44
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 3.23
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 1.99
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 1.39
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 15.24
    • Cicero, De Optimo Genere Oratorum, 1.2
    • Cicero, Brutus, 74.258
    • Cicero, Brutus, 74.259
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 6.9.10
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