Tullus Aufidius

Also known as: Tullus · Family: Volscian · Role: Volscian general · First appears: Coriolanus

Life events

The Volscians appoint Caius Marcius joint commander with Tullus Aufidius.(Coriolanus)
- With: Caius Marcius
- “They joined him in commission with Tullus, to have full power as general of their forces in all that related to the war.”
Volscian conspirators attack and kill Caius Marcius.(Coriolanus · 📍 Antium)
- With: Caius Marcius
- “For these reasons, the conspirators judged it prudent not to make any further delays, nor to test the general feeling; but the boldest of their faction, crying out that they ought not to listen to a traitor, nor allow him still to retain office and play the tyrant among them, fell upon Marcius in a body, and slew him there, none of those that were present offering to defend him.”

enemies with Caius Marcius “There was a man of Antium, called Tullus Aufidius, who, for his wealth and bravery and the splendor of his family, had the respect and privilege of a king among the Volscians, but whom Marcius knew to have a particular hostility to himself, above all other Romans.”
rivals with Caius Marcius “Frequent menaces and challenges had passed in battle between them, and those exchanges of defiance to which their hot and eager emulation is apt to prompt young soldiers had added private animosity to their national feelings of opposition.”
friends with Caius Marcius “Tullus, perceiving it, made his advantage of it, aggravating the fact, and working on their indignation, till he persuaded them, at last, to dispatch ambassadors to Rome”
with Caius Marcius (interaction) “the boldest of their faction, crying out that they ought not to listen to a traitor, nor allow him still to retain office and play the tyrant among them, fell upon Marcius in a body, and slew him there”
with Caius Marcius (co-commanders of the Volscian forces) “They joined him in commission with Tullus, to have full power as general of their forces in all that related to the war.”

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