Caecilius [Statius]

Roman comic dramatist (ca. 219-168 B.C.)

Forty titles are known, sixteen of which correspond to known Greek titles of Menander, but Caecilius's fidelity to the texts of Greek New Comedy is a matter of debate. Only fragments of his work survive.

EDITIONS

• Remains of Old Latin, vol. 1, tr. and ed. by E. H. Warmington, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, Mass., 1935.

CRITICISM

• J. Wright, Dancing in Chains, Rome, 1974.