Cornelius Epicadus (fl.1st century BC) was a Roman author,

grammarian Grammarian may refer to: * Alexandrine grammarians, philologists and textual scholars in Hellenistic Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE * Biblical grammarians, scholars who study the Bible and the Hebrew language * Grammarian (Greco-Roman ...

, and teacher of grammar. He was a

freedman A freedman or freedwoman is a formerly enslaved person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, enslaved people were freed by manumission (granted freedom by their captor-owners), emancipation (granted freedom a ...

of the

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Cornelius Sulla Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (; 138–78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He won the first large-scale civil war in Roman history and became the first man of the Republic to seize power through force. Sulla had t ...

, and his attendant (''calator'') in taking the auspices. He "was the live-in tutor of Sulla's son," Faustus. He is most noted for completing the memoirs of his former master. He also wrote the works ''De cognominibus'', ''De metris'', and other antiquarian works, now lost.

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Vitae et fragmenta veterum historicorum romanorum:Epicadus
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