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

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Sannio

A name of the buffoon in the Roman mimes, derived from sanna (“a grimace”), whence come the Italian Zanni and our Zany (Cic. De Orat. ii. 61).

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

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