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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus. 15.1 (ca. A.D. 98-117): Lenaeus, Magni Pompei libertus et paene omnium expeditionum comes, defuncto eo filiisque eius schola se sustentavit; docuitque in Carinis ad Telluris, in qua regione Pompeiorum domus fuerat, ac tanto amore erga patroni memoriam exstitit, ut Sallustium historicum, quod eum oris probi, animo inverecundo scripsisset, acerbissima satura laceraverit, lastaurum et lurconem et nebulonem popinonemque appellans, et vita scriptisque monstrosum, praeterea priscorum Catonisque verborum ineruditissimum furem. Lenaeus, freedman of Pompeius Magnus and his companion in almost all his campaigns, on the death of his patron and his sons supported himself by a school, teaching in the Carinae, near the temple of Tellus, the quarter of the city in which the house of the Pompeius' was formerly situated. He was so devoted to his patron's memory, that because the historian Sallust wrote that Pompeius had "an honest face but a shameless character," he tore Sallust to pieces in a biting satire, calling him a "debauchee, a gourmandizer, a spendthrift, and a tippler, a man whose life and writings were monstrous, and who was besides an ignornat pilferer of the language of the ancients and of Cato in particular." (J. C. Rolfe, trans.) |