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Aeserninus (the Samnite gladiator)

Aeserninus

also: Aesernino Samnite, Aeserninus the Samnite

A Samnite gladiator from Aesernia, famous from a passage of Lucilius pitting him against Pacideianus; Cicero invokes the pairing as a proverbial image of an unequal, mutually destructive fight.

Mentioned in 4 works (4 total)

Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book IV speeches · 1 mention
Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.4 letters · 1 mention
Brutus rhetoric · 1 mention
On the Best Kind of Orators rhetoric · 1 mention

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