Popillius

Family: Roman · Role: tribune · First appears: Cicero

Life events

• Herennius murdered Cicero, then cut off his head and hands on Antony's orders.(Cicero · 📍 Capitae)
  • With: Cicero Herennius Philologus 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

• with Cicero (interaction) “Popillius, a tribune, whom Cicero had formerly defended when prosecuted for the murder of his father”
• with Cicero (interaction) “whom Cicero had formerly defended when prosecuted for the murder of his father”

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