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	Gladiator
		Marcus and Decimus Junius Brutus staged a gladiatorial combat in honor of thier deceased father with three pairs of slaves serving as gladiators in the Forum Boarium (a commercial area that was named after the Roman cattle market).
		A contemporary second century AD scholar, Festus, (who abridged the work of the Augustan era writer Verrius Flaccus) suggests that gladiatorial combat was a substitution for an original sacrifice of prisoners on the tombs of great warriors.
		Tertullian, a Christian writer also of the second century, claimed that gladiatorial combat was a human sacrifice to the manes or spirits of the dead.
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	Marcus Verrius Flaccus article - Marcus Verrius Flaccus 10 Roman grammarian Augustus Tiberius Gaius Suetonius ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He gained such a reputation by his methods of instruction that he was summoned to court to bring up Gaius and Lucius, the grandsons of Augustus.
		He died at an advanced age during the reign of Tiberius (Suetonius, De Grammaticis, 17), and a statue in his honour was erected at Praeneste, in a marble recess, with inscriptions from his Fasti.
		Flaccus was also a distinguished philologist and antiquarian investigator.
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		He died at an advanced age during the reign of Tiberius (Suetonius, De Grammaticis, 17), and a statue in his honor was erected at Praeneste, in a marble recess, with inscriptions from his Fasti.
		Other lost works of Flaccus were: De Oithographia: De Obscuris Catonis, an elucidation of obscurities in the writings of the elder Cato; Saturnus, dealing with questions of Roman ritual; Rerum memoria dignarum libri, an encyclopaedic work much used by Pliny the elder; Res Etruscae, probably on augury.
		Verrius ; fragthents of Flaccus in C. MUllers edition of Festus; see also H. Nettlesbip, Lectures and Essays.
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	Verrius Flaccus, Marcus -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Verrius Flaccus introduced the principle of competition among his pupils and awarded old books, beautiful or rare, as prizes.
		Augustus entrusted the education of his two grandsons to him, and thenceforward his school was in the imperial house on the Palatine.
		Whitman and his wife were among the first white settlers in the region that now forms the states of Washington and Oregon and part of Idaho.
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		Flaccus was also a distinguished philologist and antiquarian investigator.
		The collection was subsequently increased by two new fragments.
		" Verrius "; fragments of Flaccus in C.
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		Marcus Verrius Flaccus[mAr´kus ver´Eus flak´us] Pronunciation Key, fl.
		A freedman, he was appointed by Augustus to educate his grandsons and died at an advanced age during the reign of Tiberius.
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	Marcus Verrius Flaccus Biography / Profile
		The biographer Suetonius supplies the basic biographical information about Marcus Verrius Flaccus (VEHR-ee-uhs FLAK-uhs) in his essay De grammaticis et rhetoribus (c.
		This work by Suetonius, a discussion of teachers active in Rome during the last half of the first century b.c.e., includes the statement “Marcus Verrius Flaccus the freedman was especially renowned for his method of teaching.” Nothing of Verrius’s background is known except for his freedman’s status and the probable name of his former master,...
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	M. Verrii Flacci Quae Extant et Sex. Pompei Festi De Verborum Significaione Libri XX Josephi Scaligeri - Verrius ...
		Pompei Festi De Verborum Significaione Libri XX Josephi Scaligeri - Verrius Flaccus, Marcus [ Joseph Scaliger (Josephi Scaligeri) ]
		He made an epitome of the celebrated work Dc verborum sigflificatu, a valuabe treatise alphabetically arranged, written by M. Verrius Flaccus.
		Of the early editions, the best is the one of Joseph Scaliger, with his notes (this book).
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	Latin Literature by J. W. Mackail - Full Text Free Book (Part 3/5)
		Persius Flaccus of Volaterrae in Etruria, a near relation of the
		Marcus Valerius Martialis was born at Augusta Bilbilis in Central Spain
		Marcus Fabius Quintilianus of Calagurris, a small town on the Upper Ebro,
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