Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Arctīnus, Aretalŏgi

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Aretalŏgi

（ἀρεταλόγοι). Literally “persons discoursing about virtue.” Originally poor stoics or cynics, who, being unable to gain a living by their public lectures, obtained a precarious maintenance at the tables of the rich by their philosophical conversation. The name is generally equivalent to parasitus (q. v.) or scurra. See Suet. Aug. 74.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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