• Publilius Syrus (fl. 85–43 BC), was a Latin writer, best known for his sententiae. He was a Syrian from Antioch who was brought as a slave to Roman Italy...
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  • most delightful" (In nil sapiendo vita iucundissima est), a quote by Publilius Syrus Ignorance Is Bliss (Face to Face album), a 1999 album by Face to Face...
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    Wikiquote has quotations related to Publilius Syrus & "A rolling stone gather no moss". Look up a rolling stone gathers no moss in Wiktionary, the free...
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  • Syrus is a character in Greek mythology after whom Syria and the Syrians are named. Syrus may also refer to: Publilius Syrus (fl. 85 BC - 43 BC), Syrian-born...
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  • comic plays (such as those of Plautus) and mimes (such as those of Publilius Syrus). Jokes from these sources usually depended on sexual themes. Cicero...
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    Nonius. He might perhaps be the same person as Publilius Syrus. Publilius Syrus, sometimes found as Publius Syrus, a freedman, who gained fame at Rome by writing...
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    especially Virgil, but also Ovid, Horace, and Lucretius. Seneca also quotes Publilius Syrus, such as during the eighth letter, "On the Philosopher's Seclusion"...
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  • Roman novel written by Publilius Syrus. The book is a series of proverbs written in Latin. Commonplace books Publilius Syrus, a writer of sententiae...
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    Andronicus, the comic playwright Terence, the writer of sententiae Publilius Syrus, the father of the poet Horace, the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, the...
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    polymath Propertius, Roman poet Rutilius Lupus, Roman rhetorician Publilius Syrus, Syrian/Roman poet and dramatist Sallust, Roman historian, politician...
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