Rome — Minor Figures

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

Maecenas

statesman · first appears Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero

• Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero · with Cicero “as the latter himself admits in his Memoirs addressed to Agrippa and Maecenas.”
• Antony · friends with Caesar “she met Caesar, with his two friends Agrippa and Maecenas”

Lucretius Ofella

Roman claimant to the consulship · first appears Comparison of Lysander with Sylla

• Comparison of Lysander with Sylla · with Sylla “and ordered Lucretius Ofella, who sued for the consulship as the reward of many great services, to be slain before his eyes”

Sallust

historian · first appears Comparison of Lysander with Sylla

• Comparison of Lysander with Sylla · with Sylla “himself living all that time, as Sallust affirms, in lewdness and adultery”

Caelius

defendant · first appears Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero

• Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero · with Cicero “saying, for example, in his defense of Caelius, that he had done no absurd thing in such plenty and affluence to indulge himself in pleasures”

Catiline

conspirator · first appears Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero

• Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero · enemies with Cicero “at Rome, when he was created consul in name, but indeed received sovereign and dictatorial authority against Catiline and his conspirators”

Laelius

senator · first appears Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero

• Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero · with Cicero “Whereas Laelius reproached Cicero in the senate for sitting silent when Caesar, a beardless youth, asked leave to come forward, contrary to the law, as a candidate for the consulship”

Titus Quintius

general · first appears Philopoemen

• Philopoemen · enemies with Philip “he returned into Peloponnesus, where he found Philip beaten by Titus Quintius, and Nabis at war both with the Romans and Achaeans.”

Laevinus

consul · first appears Pyrrhus

• Pyrrhus · enemies with Pyrrhus “Laevinus returning answer, that the Romans neither accepted him as arbitrator. nor feared him as an enemy”

Quintus Aemilius

consul · first appears Pyrrhus

• Pyrrhus · with Caius Fabricius “Caius Fabricius and Quintus Aemilius, consuls of the Romans, to Pyrrhus the king, health”
• Pyrrhus · with Pyrrhus “Caius Fabricius and Quintus Aemilius, consuls of the Romans, to Pyrrhus the king, health.”

Minucius

general · first appears Comparison of Pericles with Fabius

• Comparison of Pericles with Fabius · with Fabius “But no action of Pericles can be compared to that memorable rescue of Minucius, when Fabius redeemed both him and his army from utter destruction; a noble act, combining the highest valor, wisdom, and humanity.”
• Marcellus · with Caius Flaminius “Minucius, the dictator, who had already named Caius Flaminius master of the horse, they deposed from his command”

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