Crossword-Solution: ROSCIUS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Thomas Nash, in his adventures of Jack Wilton, relates, that at the request of Lord Surrey, Erasmus, and some other learned men, Agrippa called up from the grave many of the great philosophers of antiquity; among others, Tully, whom he caused to re-deliver his celebrated oration for Roscius.

Russia Bentley, Richard, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and an eminent philologist (1662-1742) Bettesworth, an Irishman, lampooned in Swift’s Miscellanies Betty Careless, one of Macaulay’s inventions which sufficiently explains itself Betty, Master, a boy-actor, known as the Infant Roscius.

And when Roscius, the son and heir of the dead, complained, and demonstrated the estate to be worth two hundred and fifty talents, Sylla took it angrily to have his actions questioned, and preferred a process against Roscius for the murder of his father, Chrysogonus managing the evidence.

The other head boys are Lawrence the captain, Bunce, famous chiefly for his magnificent appetite, and Pitman, surnamed Roscius, for his love of the drama.

Had Roscius spoken QUICK, THICK, and UNGRACEFULLY, I will answer for it, that Cicero would not have thought him worth the oration which he made in his favor.