synephebi

Updated: May 20, 2025

Caecilius Statius, born among the Insubres, wrote Latin comedies which were largely borrowed from the Greek of Menander. The original of the Synephebi was Menander's Συνε φηβοι 'young comrades'. See Sellar, Rom. Poets of the Rep., Ch. 7.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes

Yet those same men read the Andria and the Synephebi; and are not less fond of Terence and Caecilius than of Menander. They must then discard the Andromache, and the Antiope, and the Epigoni in Latin. But yet, in fact, they read Ennius and Pacuvius and Attius more than Euripides and Sophocles.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4

So I may cry out, in the words of Statius, in the Synephebi, Ye Gods, I call upon, require, pray, beseech, entreat, and implore the attention of my countrymen all, both young and old; yet not on so trifling an occasion as when the person in the play complains that, In this city we have discovered a most flagrant iniquity: here is a professed courtesan, who refuses money from her lover;

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth

And we are led to this opinion by nature, without any arguments or any instruction. XIV. But the greatest proof of all is, that nature herself gives a silent judgment in favor of the immortality of the soul, inasmuch as all are anxious, and that to a great degree, about the things which concern futurity: One plants what future ages shall enjoy, as Statius saith in his Synephebi.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth