Caecilius Statius

Reading notes

• On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.13 the character in Caecilius

  Caecilius Statius (d. c. 168 BC) was a leading Roman comic poet, an adapter of Greek New Comedy ranked highly by ancient critics. Cicero quotes him for the colloquial use of laetitia (gladness).

• Tusculan Disputations §1.31 as Statius says in the \textit{Synephebi}

  Caecilius Statius, the early-second-century comic poet, in his play Synephebi ('Fellow Youths'); the line about planting trees for a later age is quoted to show that men instinctively care about the future beyond their own lives.

• Tusculan Disputations §3.56 that line of Caecilius

  Caecilius Statius (d. 168 BC), a leading writer of Roman comedy. Cicero quotes his line that wisdom often hides 'under a shabby cloak' as a consolation against poverty.

• Tusculan Disputations §4.68 Caecilius reckons that a man who does not hold it the highest god

  Caecilius Statius, a leading Roman comic poet of the early second century BC, here quoted for verses making Love the supreme god with power over men's sanity. Cicero treats this as poetry corrupting life.