Sacerdos

• a surname of frequent occurrence, esp. in the gens Licinia: C. Sacerdos, a praetor in Sicily before Verres, Cic. Verr. 1, 10, 27; id. Planc. 11, 27.

was accused in A. D. 23 of having assisted Tacfarinas with corn, but was acquitted. He was condemned in A. D. 37 to deportatio in insulam, as one of the accomplices of the adulteries of Albucilla, at which time he is spoken of as a man of praetorian rank. His name occurs in some editions of Tacitus. under the form of Grasidius. (Tac. Ann. 4.13, 6.48.)

one of the consules suffecti in A. D. 100. (Fasti.)

slain by Caligula. (D. C. 59.22.)

1. A Roman eques. When he appeared with his horse before the censors in B. C. 142, Scipio Africanus the younger, who was one of the censors, said that he knew that Sacerdos had committed perjury, but as no one came forward to accuse him, Scipio allowed him to pass on, as he would not act as accuser, witness, and judge. (Cic. Clu. 48 ; V. Max. 4.1.10.)

2. The grandson of the preceding, bore an unblemished character. He was praetor B. C. 75, and in the following year had the government of Sicily, in which he was succeeded by Verres. He subsequently served as legate under Q. Metellus in Crete, and was a candidate for the consulship at the same comitia in which Cicero and Antonius were elected. Cicero frequently mentions him in his orations against Verres, and contrasts his upright administration of Sicily with the corrupt and unjust proceedings of his successor. (Cic. Ver. 1.10, 46, 50, 2.28, 3.50, 92, pro Planc. 1; Ascon. in Tog. Cand. p. 82, ed. Orelli.)

[Plotius.]

1. consul under Antoninus Pius in A. D. 158 with Sex. Sulpicius Tertullus. (Fasti.)

2. consul in A. D. 219 with the emperor Elagabalus. (Fasti.)

A Latin grammarian, perhaps of the end of the third century A.D., who wrote in Rome an ars grammatica in three books. The third treats of metre. See Keil, Grammatici Latini, vi. 417.