person
Gnatho
also: Gnathoni, Gnatho
The flattering parasite of Terence's Eunuchus, byword for the toady. Named in Phil. 2.15 among the comic low-life types Antony keeps company with.
Reading notes
- Laelius, On Friendship §93 in the character of Gnatho
Gnatho, the parasite-flatterer in Terence's Eunuchus whose self-description (“he says no, I say no…”) Laelius quotes as the type of the yes-man. The name became a byword for sycophancy.