Dossennus
Dossennus, a clown
Dossennus or Dossēnus (also Dors-),
- a Roman proper name, Plin. 14, 13, 15, § 92; id. ap. Indic. libr. 14 and 15.
Dossennus, ī, m., Name eines stehenden burlesken Charakters in den Atellanen, mit dem Attribute der Weisheit od. des pfiffigen Scharlatans, Hor. ep. 2, 1, 173; vgl. Sen. ep. 89, 7.
Dossennus (15) ou Dossēnus, ī, m. , personnage traditionnel de lʼatellane, bossu, glouton, filou : Sen. Ep. 89, 6 ; cf. Non. 513, 9 ; 514, 23 ; 516, 22 || [fig.] Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 173.
Dossennus ī, m
- a clown (in Plautus), H.
Dossennus
Fabius. A Roman comic poet and writer of Atellan fables, who enjoyed some reputation as a popular dramatist. Seneca makes mention of the inscription on his tomb, which ran as follows: Hospes resiste, et sophiam Dossenni lege ( Plin. Ep.lxxxix. 6).
Dossennus
One of the stock characters of the Atellanae Fabulae, and representing the typical sharper, dottore. See Vel. Longus in the Grammatici Latini (ed. Keil), vii. 79, 4; and Mommsen, Unterital. Dial. 118.