BOOK XXXV. Lviii. 199-20T 



Publilius of Antioch" the founder of our mimic 

 stage and his cousin Manilius * Antiochus the 

 originator of our astronomy, and Hkewise Staberius 

 Eros '^ our first grammarian, all of whom our ancestors 

 saw brought over in the same ship. But why need 

 anybody mention these men, recommended to 

 notice as they are by their literary honours ? Other 

 instances ^ that have been seen on the stand in the 

 slave market are Chrysogonus freedman of Sulla. 

 Amphion freedman of Quintus Catulus, Hector 

 freedman of Lucius Lucullus, Demetrius " freedman 

 of Pompey, and Auge freedwoman of Demetrius, 

 although she herself also was beheved to have 

 belonged to Pompey ; Hipparchus freedman of 

 Mark Antony, Menas ' and Menecrates freedmen 

 of Sextus Pompeius, and a list of others whom this 

 is not the occasion to enumerate, who ^ have enriched 

 themselves by the bloodshed of Roman citizens and 

 by the licence of the proscriptions.^ Such is the 

 mark set on these herds of slaves for sale, and the 

 disgrace attached to us by capricious fortune I — 

 persons whom even we have seen risen to such power 

 that we actually beheld the honour of the praetor- 

 ship awarded to them by decree of the Senate at the 

 bidding of Claudius Caesar's wife Agrippina,^ and all 

 but sent back ^dth the rods of office wreathed in 

 laurels to the places from which they came to Rome 

 with their feet whitened with white earth ! ^ 



^Admiral of Sextus Pompeius c. 40 b.c. He deserted 

 twice to Octavian. Hipparchus likewise deserted to Octavian. 

 Menecrates killed himself after ill success under Menas against 

 Octavian'8 fleet, 38 b.c. 



" Especially Chrysogonus and perhaps Hipparchus. 



* By Sulla in 82 and by Antony, Octavian, Lepidus in 43 b.c. 



^ She married Claudius iu a.d, 49. ^ See § 199. 



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