Primus
a Roman freedman, whose name appears on an inscription in the Museum at Naples, in the form M. ARTORIUS M. L. PRIMUS ARCHITECTUS. M. Raoul Rochette has copied and published the inscription; and he states that he was assured by M. C. Bonucci, that the stone came from the great theatre at Pompeii, of which, therefore, if this statement be correct, Primus was the architect. (R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 441.)
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.