Persius
From LSJ
Γελᾷ δ' ὁ μῶρος, κἄν τι μὴ γελοῖον ᾖ → Mens stulta ridet, quando ridendum est nihil → Es lacht der Tor, auch wenn es nichts zu lachen gibt
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Persĭus: ĭi, m.,
I a Roman surname.
I C. Persius, an orator, a contemporary of the Gracchi, Cic. de Or 2, 6, 25; id. Brut. 26, 99; id. Fin. 1, 3, 7.—
II A. Persius Flaccus, a celebrated satirist of Volaterrœ, in Etruria, who died in the reign of Nero, at the age of twenty-eight, A. D. 62, Mart. 4, 29, 7; Quint. 10, 1, 94.—Hence,
B Persĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the poet Persius, Persian: Persianum illud, that passage of Persius, Lact. 2, 2, 18.—
III A third Persius, otherwise unknown, has given his name to the Persĭānae Ăquae, perh. near Carthage, App Flor 3, p. 353, 5.
