Persius
2. C. Persius, a contemporary of the Gracchi, had the reputation of being one of the most learned men of his time; and Lucilius therefore said that he did not wish Persius to read his works. The speech, which the consul C. Fannius Strabo delivered against Gracchus in B. C. 122, and which was much admired by Cicero, was said by some to have been written by Persius. (Cic. de Fin. 1.3, de Orat. 2.6, Brut. 26.)
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.