Caius Albutius Silus

Role: rhetorician · First appears: Rhetoricians 6

Life events

Caius Albutius Silus was dragged from the tribunal while administering justice as edile.(Rhetoricians 6 · 📍 Novara)
- “was dragged by the feet from the tribunal by some persons against whom he was pronouncing a decree.”
Caius Albutius Silus silenced Plancus in debate and established his own audience.(Rhetoricians 6 · 📍 Rome)
- With: Plancus
- “The office was undertaken by Albutius with such success, that he silenced Plancus, who did not venture to put himself in competition with him.”
Caius Albutius Silus lost a cause after provoking judicial disapproval with a bold appeal.(Rhetoricians 6 · 📍 the court of the One Hundred)
- “his adversary taking him up for the suggestion, and the judges frowning upon it, he lost his cause, and was much blamed.”
Caius Albutius Silus narrowly escaped prosecution after invoking Brutus and denouncing Italy’s threatened provincial reduction.(Rhetoricians 6 · 📍 Milan)
- “For this he narrowly escaped a prosecution.”
Caius Albutius Silus gave up practising in the forum because of shame and fear.(Rhetoricians 6 · 📍 the forum)
- “In the end, he gave up practising in the forum, partly from shame, partly from fear.”
Caius Albutius Silus ended his life by abstaining from food after explaining his reasons publicly.(Rhetoricians 6 · 📍 Novara)
- “and this he did by abstaining from food.”

friends with Plancus “There he was admitted to fellowship, and lodged, with Plancus the orator, whose practice it was, before he made a speech in public, to set up some one to take the contrary side in the argument.”
rivals with Plancus “The office was undertaken by Albutius with such success, that he silenced Plancus, who did not venture to put himself in competition with him.”

Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.