Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Archimimus

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

ARCHIMI'MUS (ἀρχίμιμος). The leader of a company of buffoons, who were engaged at funerals to dance and play the merry-andrew in the procession, the leader of the party enacting a mock representation of the person and character of the deceased. Suet. Vesp. 19. See also MIMUS, 2.