Philologus

Family: Roman · Role: emancipated slave · First appears: Cicero

Life events

• Herennius murdered Cicero, then cut off his head and hands on Antony's orders.(Cicero · 📍 Capitae)
  • With: Cicero Herennius Popillius Antony
  • “So that the greatest part of those that stood by covered their faces whilst Herennius slew him. And thus was he murdered, stretching forth his neck out of the litter, being now in his sixty-fourth year. Herennius cut off his head, and, by Antony's command, his hands also”

Cicero

• mentor: Cicero “a youth, who had been educated by Cicero in the liberal arts and sciences”
• employer: Quintus “an emancipated slave of his brother Quintus”

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