BOOK VII. xii. 54-56 



Serapio being a low chattel belonging to a dealcr in 

 hogs. Another Scipio of a later generation received 

 his name from an actor Sahitio, just as Spinther and 

 Pamphihis who played second and third roles re- 

 spectively gave their names to the colleagues in the 

 consulship Lentuhis and Metellus, a situation which 

 also (most inappropriately) resulted incidentally in the 

 counterfeit presentations of two consuls being seen 

 on the stage at once. Fice versa, Lucius Plancus an 

 orator gave a surname to a player Rubrius, whereas 

 Burbuleius gave his name to Curio senior and like- 

 wise Menogenes to the former censor Messala, both 

 aUke being actors. A fisherman in Sicily not only 

 resembled the proconsul Sura in appearance but 

 actually reproduced his gape while speaking and his 

 tongue-tied stammering utterance. The famous 

 orator Cassius Severus was taunted for his Hkeness to 

 the gladiator Armentarius.'* Recently in the house- 

 hold of Annaeus people used to mistake GalUo for the 

 freedman Castellanus and the senator Agrippinus 

 for the actor Sannius, surnamed Paris. The slave- 

 dealer Toranius sold to Antony after he had become 

 one of the triumvirate two exceptionally handsome 

 boys, who were so identically aUke that he passed 

 them off as twins, although one was a native of Asia 

 and the other of a district North of the Alps. Later 

 the boys' speech disclosed the fraud, and a protest 

 was made to the dealer by the wrathful Antony, 

 who complained especiaUy about the large amount 

 of the price (lie had bought them for 200,000 

 sesterces) ; but the crafty dealer repUed that the 

 thing protested about was precisely the cause of his 

 having charged so much, because there was nothing 

 remarkable in a Ukeness between any pair of twin 



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