Plutarch's Lives

Septimius

Family: Roman · Role: former commander under Pompey · First appears: Pompey

Life events

  • Septimius, Salvius, and Achillas assassinated Pompey after he sought refuge in Egypt.(Pompey)
    • With: Pompey Cornelia Salvius Achillas
    • “Septimius first stabbed him from behind with his sword; and after him likewise Salvius and Achillas drew out their swords. He, therefore, taking up his gown with both hands, drew it over his face, and neither saying nor doing anything unworthy of himself, only groaning a little, endured the wounds they gave him, and so ended his life, in the fifty-ninth year of his age, the very next day after the day of his birth.”

Pompey

  • enemies with Pompey “Septimius first stabbed him from behind with his sword”
  • employer: Pompey “one Septimius, a man that had formerly held a command under Pompey”

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