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Staberius Eros, a scholar, originally a slave, who taught the children of those proscribed by *Sulla free. M. *Iunius Brutus (2) and C. *Cassius Longinus (1) were his pupils. Subjects Roman History and Historiography
Eros, in Greek religion, god of love.In the Theogony of Hesiod (fl. 700 bce), Eros was a primeval god, son of Chaos, the original primeval emptiness of the universe, but later tradition made him the son of Aphrodite, goddess of sexual love and beauty, by either Zeus (the king of the gods), Ares (god of war and of battle), or Hermes (divine messenger of the gods).
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Staberius Eros Quick Reference A scholar, originally a slave, who taught the children of those proscribed by Sulla free. M. Iunius Brutus (2) and C. Cassius Longinus (1) were his pupils.
Publilius Syrus (fl. 85–43 BC [1]), was a Latin writer, best known for his sententiae.He was a Syrian from Antioch who was brought as a slave to Roman Italy.Syrus was brought to Rome on the same ship that brought a certain Manilius, astronomer - not the famous Manilius of the 1st century AD (see Pliny, NH X, 4-5), and Staberius Eros the grammarian. [2]
Pliny's Manilius is the contemporary of the mime author Publilius Syrus and the grammarian Staberius Eros, both of whom were active in the early to mid‐first century bc. Our Manilius, as we have seen, cannot possibly belong to this generation.
And first in Answer to Scaliger's Argument, drawn from Reason of time, against Ma∣nilius Antiochus, upon the Supposition, that Staberius Eros, (one of the three before∣mentioned) set open his Grammar School in the Time of Sylla, ninety five years before the Death of Augustus; And that therefore (according to Scaligers Computation) Manilius could not probably be less than 120 years old, at ...
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>XIII. Staberius Eros was purchased with his own savings at a public sale and formally manumitted because of his devotion to literature. He numbered among his pupils Brutus and Cassius. Some say that ...
