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Stātĭus, ii, m.

  1. I. Orig., a name for slaves, acc. to Gell. 4, 20, 12.
    A slave of Cicero was thus named, Cic. Fam. 16, 16, 2; id. Att. 6, 2, 1; id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 1, § 1.
    Also a prœnomen of freemen, e. g. Statius Albius Oppianicus, Cic. Clu. 4, 9.
  2. II. A surname (cognomen or agnomen).
    1. A. Caecilius Statius, of Insubria, a comic poet, a younger contemporary of Ennius, who died A. U. C. 586, Cic. Opt. Gen. 1, 2; id. Att. 7, 3, 10; Vell. 1, 17, 1.
    2. B. P. Papinius Statius, a poet under Domitian, author of the Silvae, of the Thebais, and of an unfinished poem entitled Achilleis, Juv. 7, 82 sqq.
    3. C. L. Statius Murcus, a lieutenant and proconsul, Caes. B. C. 3, 15; Cic. Phil. 11, 12, 30; Vell. 2, 69, 2; 2, 77, 4.