Licinius
4. The name of three or four slaves or freedmen, mentioned by Cicero, of whom the only one deserving of notice is the LICINIUS, an educated slave belonging to C. Gracchus, who used, according to the well-known story, to stand behind his master with a musical instrument, when he was speaking, in order to moderate his tone. This slave became afterwards a client of Catulus. (Plut. TG 2; Cic. de Or. 3.60; Gel. 1.11.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.