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40) Tullius Laurea

Without doubt, he bore the name Marcus, since he was a freedman of Cicero’s. When, a short while after Cicero’s death, in his villa in Puteoli, <30> which came into the possession of C. Antistius Vetus (Klebs vol. I p. 2558, 53ff.), not [in] Puteolanum, but [in] Cumanum (Cic. acad. I 1; fam. IX 8, 1. O. E. Schmidt Ilbergs Jahrb. III 480, 1), hot springs erupted, which were especially beneficial for eye complaints, Tullius wrote an epigram about it in five distichs, which Plin. n. h. XXXI 6-8 found of value in terms its writing and its prevalence (following this FPR 316 Baehrens = 80 Morel). <40> Outside of this Latin epigram, three Greek ones have been handed down to us under the name of the same poet, one funeral ode to Sappho in four distichs (Anthol. Pal. VII 17 [II 1, 14 Stadtmüller] Τυλλίου Λαυρέα) and one to a fisher Gryneus who drowned in the sea and was eaten by fish, in four distichs (ibid. 294 [II 1, 197 St.] Τυλλίου Λαυρέα with ms. variants Στατυλλίου), the third epigram in four distichs for the grown-up boy who was dear to him, Polemon (ibid. XII 24 Λαυρέα; the same object in the following 25-27 Στατυλλίου Φλάκκου). The man praised by Philippos in his introductory poem of ‘the crown’ as Τύλλιος ὡς μελίλωτον (IV 2, 14 [I 72 St.]) is certainly not Tullius Laurea (as eg. vol. I p. 2382, 10), but rather Tullius Geminus nr. 36 (Cichorius Röm. Stud. 360). Evidence is lacking for the identification of Laurea with the writer mentioned a few times in Cicero’s letters M. Tullius nr. 15 (Drumann GR² VI 355). <60>

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