Sabine — Minor Figures

8 figures from Plutarch's Lives who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Calpus

alleged son of Numa · first appears Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius · parent: Numa Pompilius “others will have it that he left also four sons, namely, Pompo, Pinus, Calpus, and Mamercus”

kinsman of Numa · first appears Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius · with Numa Pompilius “In presence of his father and his kinsman Marcius, he returned answer”
Numa Pompilius · child: Marcius (son of Marcius) “all of them agree in opinion that she was married to the son of that Marcius who persuaded him to accept the government, and accompanied him to Rome”

alleged son of Numa · first appears Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius · parent: Numa Pompilius “others will have it that he left also four sons, namely, Pompo, Pinus, Calpus, and Mamercus”

daughter of Numa · first appears Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius · parent: Numa Pompilius “some will have it that he never had any other wife than Tatia, nor more children than one daughter called Pompilia”
Numa Pompilius · married with Marcius (son of Marcius) “Pompilia was not the daughter of Tatia, but Lucretia, another wife whom he married after he came to his kingdom; however, all of them agree in opinion that she was married to the son of that Marcius who persuaded him to accept the government”

alleged son of Numa · first appears Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius · parent: Numa Pompilius “others will have it that he left also four sons, namely, Pompo, Pinus, Calpus, and Mamercus”

wife of Numa · first appears Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius · married with Numa Pompilius “Tatius, the colleague of Romulus, chose him for his son-in-law, and gave him his only daughter”
Numa Pompilius · parent: Tatius “Tatius, the colleague of Romulus, chose him for his son-in-law, and gave him his only daughter”

ambassador · first appears Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius · with Numa Pompilius “the speakers were Proculus and Velesus, one or other of whom it had been thought the people would elect as their new king”

senator · first appears Poplicola

Poplicola · patron: Publius Valerius “Poplicola, informed of their approach, received them with all the kind offices of a friend, and admitted them at once to the franchise, allotting to every one two acres of land by the river Anio, but to Clausus twenty-five acres, and gave him a place in the senate”
Poplicola · friends with Publius Valerius “Poplicola, informed of their approach, received them with all the kind offices of a friend, and admitted them at once to the franchise, allotting to every one two acres of land by the river Anio, but to Clausus twenty-five acres, and gave him a place in the senate”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.