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-	'''Publilius Syrus''', a [[Latin]] writer of [[Maxim (saying)|maxim]]s, flourished in the 1st century [[BCE]]. He was a [[Syria (Roman province)|Syrian]] who was brought as a slave to [[Italy]], but by his wit and talent he won the favour of his master, who freed and educated him. Publilius' name, due to early medieval palatalization of "l" between two "i", is often presented by manuscripts (and some printed editions) in corrupt form as "Publius".	+	{{R from move}}{{R from alternative disambiguation}}
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-	His mimes, in which he acted himself, had a great success in the provincial towns of Italy and at the games given by [[Julius Caesar|Caesar]] in 46 BCE. Publilius was perhaps even more famous as an improviser, and received from Caesar himself the prize in a contest in which he vanquished all his competitors, including the celebrated [[Decimus Laberius]].	+
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-	All that remains of his works is a collection of ''Sentences'' (''[[Sententiae]]''), a series of [[moral]] maxims in [[Iamb (foot)|iambic]] and [[trochaic]] [[Verse (poetry)|verse]]. This collection must have been made at a very early date, since it was known to [[Aulus Gellius]] in the 2nd century CE. Each maxim consists of a single verse, and the verses are arranged in alphabetical order according to their initial letters. In the course of time the collection was interpolated with sentences drawn from other writers, especially from apocryphal writings of [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]]; the number of genuine verses is about 700. They include many pithy sayings, such as the famous "''iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur''" ("The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted") adopted as its motto by the ''[[Edinburgh Review]]''.	+
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-	As of 1911, the best texts of the ''Sentences'' were those of [[Eduard Wölfflin]] (1869), A. Spengel (1874), and [[Wilhelm Meyer (philologist)|Wilhelm Meyer]] (1880), with complete critical apparatus and index verborum; editions with notes by O. Friedrich (1880), [[R. A. H. Bickford-Smith]] (1895), with full bibliography; see also W. Meyer, ''Die Sammlungen der Spruchverse des Publilius Syrus'' (1877), an important work.	+
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-	==See also==	+
-	* [[A rolling stone gathers no moss]]	+
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