Damasippus
Licinius.
1.
A Roman praetor, B.C. 81, an adherent of Marius, and put to death by order of Sulla (Sall.
Cat. 51, 32).
2.
A contemporary of Cicero, who mentions him as a lover of statues, and speaks of purchasing
a garden from Damasippus. He is probably the same person as the Damasippus ridiculed by
Horace (
Hor. Sat. ii. 3, 16, 64). It appears from
Horace that Damasippus had become bankrupt, in consequence of which he intended to put an end
to himself; but he was prevented by the Stoic Stertinius, and then turned Stoic himself, or
at least affected to be one.