, among which may be mentioned: _On the Style of the Ten Orators_
(including their lives and a critical examination of their works), the
basis of the pseudo-Plutarchian treatise of the same name, in which
Caecilius is frequently referred to; _On the Sublime_, attacked by (?)
Longinus in his essay on the same subject (see L. Martens, _De Libello_
[Greek: Peri hupsous], 1877); _History of the Servile Wars_, or slave
risings in Sicily, the local interest of which would naturally appeal to
the author; _On Rhetoric_ and _Rhetorical Figures_; an _Alphabetical
Selection of Phrases_, intended to serve as a guide to the acquirement of a
pure Attic style--the first example of an Atticist lexicon, mentioned by
Suidas in the preface to his lexicon as one of his authorities; _Against
the Phrygians_, probably an attack on the florid style of the Asiatic
school of rhetoric.

The fragments have been collected and edited by T. Burckhardt (1863), and
E. Ofenloch (1907); some in C.W. Mueller, _Fragmenta Historicorum
Graecorum_, iii.; C. Bursian's _Jahresbericht ... der classischen
Altertumswissenschaft_, xxiii. (1896), contains full notices of recent
works on Caecilius, by C. Hammer; F. Blass, _Griechische Beredsamkeit von
Alexander bis auf Augustus_ (1865), treats of Dionysius of Halicarnassus
and Caecilius together; see also J. Brzoska in Pauly-Wissowa,
_Realencyclopaedie_ (1897).

CAECILIUS STATIUS, or STATIUS CAECILIUS, Roman comic poet, contemporary and
intimate friend of Ennius, died in 168 (or 166) B.C. He was born in the
territory of the Insubrian Gauls, and was probably taken as a prisoner to
Rome (c. 200), during the great Gallic war. Originally a slave, he assumed
the name of Caecilius from his patron, probably one of the Metelli. He
supported himself by adapting Greek plays for the Roman stage from the new
comedy writers, especially Menander. If the statement in the life of
Terence by Suetonius is correct and the reading sound, Caecilius's judgment
was so esteemed that he was ordered to hear Terence's _Andria_ (exhibited
166 B.C.) read and to pronounce an opinion upon it. After several failures
Caecilius gained a high reputation. Volcacius Sedigitus, the dramatic
critic, places him first amongst the comic poets; Varro credits him with
pathos and skill in the construction of his plots; Horace (_Epistles_, ii.
1. 59) contrasts his dignity with the art of Terence. Quintilian (_Inst.
Orat._, x. 1. 99) speaks somewhat disparagingly