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Originally called Archagathus, he took the name of Caecilius from his patron, one of the Metelli. According to the '' Suda '', he was by birth a Jew . Next to Dionysius Of Halicarnassus , he was the most important critic and rhetorician of the Augustan age.

Only fragments are extant of his numerous and important works, among which may be mentioned:
  • ''On the Style of the Ten Orators'' (the lives and a critical examination of the works of the Ten Orators ), the basis of the pseudo- Plutarch ian treatise of the same name, in which Caecilius is frequently referred to;

  • ''On the Sublime'', attacked by (?) Longinus in his essay on the same subject;

  • ''History of the Servile Wars'', or slave risings in Sicily, the local interest of which would naturally appeal to the author;

  • ''On Rhetoric and Rhetorical Figures'', an ''Alphabetical Selection of Phrases'', intended to serve as a guide to the acquirement of a pure Attic style—the first example of an Atticist lexicon, mentioned by Suidas in the preface to his lexicon as one of his authorities;

  • ''Against the Phrygians'', probably an attack on the florid style of the Asiatic school of rhetoric.



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