A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

CAESIA GENS.
Caesarius is the author of two treatises, one entitled Regula ad Monac/os, and another Regula
ad Virgines, which, together with three Exhortationes and some opuscula, will be found in the 8th
volume of the Bibliotheca Patrum, Leyden, 1677;
and were printed in a separate volume, with the
notes of Meynardus, at Poitiers (Petavium), 1621,
8vo. His chief works, however, consist of sermons or homilies. Forty of these were published
by Cognatus, at Basle, 1558, 4to., and 1569, fol.,
and are included in the Monumenta SS. Patrum
Orthodoxographa of Grynaeus, Cologne, 1618, fol.
p. 1861; a collection of forty-six, together with
some smaller tracts, are in the 8th volume of the
Bibliotheca Patrum referred to above; and the
11th volume of the Bibliotheca Patrum of Galland
(Venice, 1776) contains fourteen more, first brought
to light by Baluze (Paris, 1699, 8vo.); but, besides these, upwards of a hundred out of the 317
discourses falsely attributed to Augustin are commonly assigned to Caesarius. (Vita S. Caesarii,
Episc. Arelatensis, a Cyp;iano, ejus Discipulo, ei
IMessiano Presb. et Stephano Diac. conscripta duobu/s libris, in the Vitae SS. of Surius, 27 August.
p. 284. See also Dissertatio de Vitae ct Scriptis
S. Caesarii, Arelatensis Archiep., by Oudin in his
Comment. de Scri2tpt. Eccles. vol. i. p. 1339; in addition to which, Funccius, De Inerti et Decrepita
Senectute Linguae Latinae, cap. vi. ~ viii.; and Baehr,
Geschichte der Rmiiischen Literatur, Suppl. vol. ii.
p. 425.) [W. R.]
CAESE'NNIUS, the name of a noble Etruscan
family at Tarquinii, two members of which are mentioned by Cicero, namely, P. Caesennius and Caesennia, first the wife of M. Fulcinius, and afterwards of A. Caecina. (Cic. pro Caecin. 4, 6, 10.)
The name is found in sepulchral inscriptions.
(Miiller, Etrusker, i. p. 433.)
CAESE'NNIUS LENTO. [LENTO.]
CAESE'NNIUS PAETUS. [PAETUS.]
C. CAE'SETIUS, a Roman knight, who entreated Caesar to pardon Q. Ligarius. (Cic. pro
Lig. 11.)
P. CAESE'TIUS, the quaestor of C. Verres.
(Cic. Verr. iv. 65, v. 25.)
CAESE'TIUS FLAVUS. [FLAvus.]
CAESE'TIUS RUFUS. [RuFus.]
CAE'SIA, a surname of Minerva, a translation
of the Greek yAavKýcins. (Terent. Heaut. v. 5,
18; Cic. de Nat. Deor. i. 30.) [L. S.]
CAE'SIA GENS, plebeian, does not occur till
towards the end of the republic. [CAESIUs.]
On the following coin of this gens, the obverse
represents the head of a youthful god brandishing an arrow or spear with three points, who
is usually supposed from the following passage of
A. Gellius (v. 12) to be Apollo Veiovis: " Simulacrum dei Veiovis - sagittas tenet, quae sunt
videlicet paratae ad nocendum. Quapropter eum
deum plerique Apollinem esse dixerunt." The
two men on the reverse are Lares: between them
stands a dog, and above them the head of Vulcan
with a forceps. (Eckhel, v. p. 156, &c.)

CAESIUS. 557
CAESIA'NUS, APRO'NIUS. [APRONIUS,
No. 3.]
CAE'SIUS. 1. M. CAESIUS, was praetor with
C. Licinius Sacerdos in B. c. 75. (Cic. Verr. i. 50.)
2. M. CAESIUS, a rapacious farmer of the tithes
in Sicily during the administration of Verres, B. c.
73, &c. (Cic. Verr. iii. 39, 43.)
3. L. Caesius, was one of Cicero's friends, and
accompanied him during his proconsular administration of Cilicia, in B. c. 50. (Ad Quint. Frat. i. 1.
~ 4, 2. ~ 2.) He seems to be the same person as
the Caesius who superintended the building of Q.
Cicero's villa of the Manilianum. (Ad Quint. Frat.
iii. 1. ~~ 1, 2.) There is a Roman denarius bearing the name L. Caesius (see above), but whether
it belongs to our L. Caesius or not cannot be ascertained.
4. M. CAESIUS, of Arpinum, an intimate friend
of Cicero, who held the office of aedile at Aruinum,
the only municipium which had such a magistracy,
in B. c. 47. (Cic. ad Fam. xiii. 11, 12.)
5. P. CAESIUs, a Roman eques of Ravenna, received the Roman franchise from Cn. Pompeius,
the father of Pompey the Great. (Cic. pro Bleb.
22.) There is a letter of Cicero (ad Fiam. xiii. 51)
addressed to P. Caesius (B. c. 47), in which Cicero
recommends to him his friend P. Messienus. From
the manner in which Cicero there speaks (pro
nostra et pro paterna amicilia), it would almost
seem as if there was some mistake in the praenomen, and as if the letter was addressed to M.
Caesius of Arpinum. But it may be, that there
had existed a friendship between Cicero and the
father of Caesius, of which beyond this allusion
nothing is known.
6. SEX. CAESIUs, a Roman eques, who is mentioned by Cicero (pro Flacc. 28) as a man of great
honesty and integrity. [L. S.]
T. CAE'SIUS, a jurist, one of the disciples of
Servius Sulpicius, the eminent friend of Cicero.
Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. un. ~ 44) enumerates
ten disciples of Servius, among whom T. Caesius
is mentioned, in a passage not free from the inaccuracy of expression which pervades the whole
title De Origine Jturis. His words are these:
"Ab hoc (Servio) plurimi profecerunt: fere tamen
hi libros conscripserunt: ALFENUS VARUS, A.
OFILIUS, T. CAESIUS, AUFsDusTuccA, AUFIDIUS
NAMUSA, FLAVIUS PRIscUs, ATEIUS PACUVIUS,
LABEO ANTISTIUs, Labeonis Antistii pater, CINNA,
PUBLICIUS GELLIUS. Ex his decem libros octo
conscripserunt, quorum omnes qui fuerunt libri
digesti sunt ab Aufidio Namusa in centum quadraginta libros." It is not clear from this account
whether (according to the usual interpretation of
the passage) only eight of the ten were authors, or
whether (as appears to be the more correct interpretation) all the ten wrote books, but not more
than eight wrote books which were digested by
Aufidius Namusa. In the computation of the
eight, it is probable that the compiler himself was
not included. T. Caesius is nowhere else expressly
mentioned in the Digest, but " Ofilius, Cascellius,
et Servii auditores, are cited Dig. 33. tit. 4. s. 6.
~ 1, and the phrase Servii auditores occurs also
Dig. 33. tit. 7. s. 12, pr., and Dig. 33. tit. 7. s. 12,
~ 6. In Dig. 39. tit. 3. s. 1. ~ 6, where Servii
auctores is the reading of the Florentine manuscript of the Digest, Servii auditores has been proposed as a conjectural emendation. Under these
names it has been supposed that the eight disciples