Cornelius Epicadus

Cornelius Epicadus (fl.1st century BC) was a Roman author, grammarian, and teacher of grammar. He was a freedman of the Roman dictator Cornelius Sulla, and his attendant (calator) in taking the auspices. He "was the live-in tutor of Sulla's son," Faustus.^[1] He is most noted for completing the memoirs of his former master.^[2] He also wrote the works De cognominibus, De metris, and other antiquarian works, now lost.^[1]