Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sannio

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SAN'NIO. Literally one who grins or makes grimaces; whence a stage buffoon, who endeavours to excite the merriment of the spectators by any kind of grotesque gesture, ridiculous manner, or distortion of the face and body, in the manner exhibited by the annexed figure (Sannio/1.1), representing a performer of the kind described, from an engraved gem. Cic. Or. ii. 61.

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  Sannio/1.1