a celebrated player in the farces Dict. of Ant.
s. v.) in the reign of Domitian, with whom he was a great favourite, and whom he served
as a delator. It seems probable that the Latinus spoken of by Juvenal (1.35, 6.44), was the
same person, though the scholiast on Juvenal (ll. cc.) says that this
Latinus was put to death by Nero on account of his being privy to the adulteries of
Messallina. The Latinus of the time of Domitian is frequently mentioned by Martial, who gives
his epitaph (9.29), and speaks of his private character in favourable terms. Latinus
frequently acted as mimus in conjunction with Thymele as mima. (Juv. l.c.;