Cæcĭlius Claudius Isidorus

, a man who left in his will to his heirs, 4116 slaves, 3600 yokes of oxen, 257,000 small cattle, 600,000 pounds of silver. Pliny , bk. 33 , ch. 10 .――Epirus, a freedman of Atticus, who opened a school at Rome, and is said to have first taught reading to Virgil and some other growing poets.――A Sicilian orator in the age of August us, who wrote on the Servile wars, a comparison between Demosthenes and Cicero, and an account of the orations of Demosthenes.――Me tell us. See: Me tell us .――Statius, a comic poet, deservedly commended by Cicero and Quintilian, though the orator, Letters to Atticus , calls him Malum Latin it at is auctorem . Above 30 of his comedies are mentioned by ancient historians, among which are his Nauclerus, Phocius, Epiclerus, Syracusæ, Fœnerator, Fallacia, Pausimachus, . He was a native of Gaul, and died at Rome 168 B.C., and was buried on the Janiculum. Horace , bk. 2 , ltr. 1 .