Cornelius Epicadus (fl.1st century BC) was a Roman author,
grammarian, and teacher of grammar. He was a
freedman
A freedman or freedwoman is a person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves were freed by manumission (granted freedom by their owners), emancipation (granted freedom as part of a larger group), or self- ...
of the
Roman dictator
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Cornelius Sulla, and his attendant (''calator'') in
taking the auspices. He "was the live-in tutor of Sulla's son,"
Faustus.
He is most noted for completing the memoirs of his former master.
He also wrote the works ''De cognominibus'', ''De metris'', and other antiquarian works, now lost.
References
External links
Vitae et fragmenta veterum historicorum romanorum:Epicadus
Old Latin-language writers
1st-century BC writers
Republican era slaves and freedmen
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