Epicharmus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Ĕpĭcharmus, i, m., = Ἐπίχαρμος.

I A famous Pythagorean philosopher and comic poet of Cos , who resided , after his early youth , in Syracuse (whence his surname of Siculus), Cic. Tusc. 1, 8; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 58; Plin. 20, 9, 34, § 89 al.—Hence,

B Epicharmīum illud, a saying of Epicharmus, Gell. 1, 15, 15.—

II The name of a poem by Ennius , Cic. Ac. 2 ( Luc. ), 16 fin. al.; v. Vahlen, Ennianae Poesis Reliquiae, p. 167 sq.