Other Figures — Minor Figures
259 figures from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Aemilia Lepida
wife of Claudius · first appears Claudius 26
- Claudius 26 · married with Claudius “He was twice married at a very early age, first to Aemilia Lepida, the grand-daughter of Augustus”
- Claudius 26 · elder kin: Augustus “Aemilia Lepida, the grand-daughter of Augustus”
Aemilius Aelianus
of Cordova · first appears Augustus 51
- Augustus 51 · enemies with Augustus “In the trial of Aemilius Aelianus, of Cordova, when, among other charges exhibited against him, it was particularly insisted upon, that he used to calumniate Caesar”
Alexander the Great
king · first appears Augustus 18
- Augustus 18 · with Augustus “and after viewing them for some time, he paid honours to the memory of that prince, by offering a golden crown, and scattering flowers upon the body.”
Apollo
god · first appears Augustus 70
- Augustus 70 · with Augustus “while he personated Apollo himself”
Apollodorus of Pergamus
rhetoric teacher · first appears Augustus 89
- Augustus 89 · pupil: Augustus “having had Apollodorus of Pergamus, for his master in rhetoric”
Caius Melissus
grammarian · first appears Grammarians 21
- Grammarians 21 · employer: Augustus “By his appointment he was made curator of the library in the portico of Octavia”
- Grammarians 21 · friends with Mecaenas “Finding himself valued and treated as a friend, he preferred to continue in his state of servitude”
Cassius Patavinus
plebeian · first appears Augustus 51
- Augustus 51 · enemies with Augustus “he thought it sufficient to punish Junius Novatus and Cassius Patavinus, who were both plebeians, one of them with a fine, and the other with an easy banishment; although the former had published, in the name of young Agrippa, a very scurrilous letter against him, and the other declared openly, at an entertainment where there was a great deal of company, ‘that he neither wanted inclination nor courage to stab him.’”
Dioscorides
engraver · first appears Augustus 50
- Augustus 50 · with Augustus “and at last his own, engraved by the hand of Dioscorides”
- Augustus 50 · with Augustus “and at last his own, engraved by the hand of Dioscorides”
Eutychus
driver · first appears Augustus 96
- Augustus 96 · with Augustus “After the victory, he erected a brazen statue to each, in a temple built upon the spot where he had encamped.”
Hilarian
freedman · first appears Augustus 101
- Augustus 101 · patron: Augustus “written partly in his own hand, and partly by his freedmen Polybius and Hilarian”