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Appius Claudius Caecus
Appius Caecus
also: Appius, Appii
Censor of 312 BC, builder of the Appian Way and aqueduct, and the earliest Roman whose speech (against peace with Pyrrhus) was remembered—cited as an object of antiquarian over-admiration.
Reading notes
- A Dialogue on Oratory §18 Appius Caecus
Appius Claudius Caecus, censor 312 BC, the earliest Roman whose speech was remembered; an object of antiquarian over-praise.