Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Classici

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. 

CLAS'SICI. Citizens who belonged to the first of the six classes into which the population of Rome was divided by Servius Tullius (Aul. Gell. vii. 13.); whence the expression scriptores classici, classical authors, means those of the very first order. Aul. Gell. xix. 8. 6.

2. The horn-blowers who summoned the classes to the comitia by sound of the lituus or the cornu. Varro, L. L. v. 91. CORNICEN, LITICEN.

3. Same as CLASSIARII; including the fighting men as well as the ship's company. Curt. iv. 3. Tac. Hist. i. 31. ib. ii. 17.

4. Classica corona (Vellej. ii. 81. 3.); same as CORONA NAVALIS.