Persius’ cirrati and the schooling of slaves
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.1985.v53.i2.677Abstract
The cirrati mentioned in Persius’ first satire (29) have been taken for freeborn schoolboys. They should be identified rather as slave pages. Such seruuli would be trained to recite popular poetry by the ludi magister, and might thereafter serve their masters as cantores.
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