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Gaius Sergius Orata
Sergius Orata
also: Gaius Sergius Orata, C. Sergius Orata, Orata, Sergius
A wealthy Roman entrepreneur of the late 2nd/early 1st century BC, famous for oyster-breeding and luxury baths. Cicero cites the lawsuit over a house with an undeclared servitude that Marius Gratidianus sold him.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.70 their master in all this, Orata
Gaius Sergius Orata, a wealthy late-Republican entrepreneur famous for his luxury oyster-beds and heated baths, a byword for inventive self-indulgence. Cicero names him with Thorius and Postumius as model voluptuaries.