person
Quintus Arrius
Arrius
also: Arri, arri
A man famed for a lavish funeral banquet (arbiter of Staberius's); his two sons squander fortunes on costly nightingales — gluttony as madness.
Reading notes
- The Satires §2.3 Arrius's discretion
Quintus Arrius, famed for a lavish public funeral-banquet; his name also attaches to two sons who blew fortunes on costly nightingales.