Lenaeus

Role: freedman and grammarian · First appears: Grammarians 15

Life events

Lenaeus became Pompey the Great’s freedman and attended him on his expeditions.(Grammarians 15)
- With: Pompey
- “Lenaeus was a freedman of Pompey the Great, and attended him in most of his expeditions.”
Lenaeus opened a school and supported himself by teaching.(Grammarians 15 · 📍 the Carium)
- “he supported himself by teaching in a school which he opened near the temple of Tellus, in the Carium”
Lenaeus attacked Sallust in a bitter satire over his insult to Pompey.(Grammarians 15)
- With: Sallust
- “when Sallust described him as having a brazen face, and a shameless mind, he lashed the historian in a most bitter satire”
Lenaeus escaped slavery and later received gratuitous manumission.(Grammarians 15)
- “in his youth, having escaped from slavery by the contrivance of some of his friends, he took refuge in his own country; and, that after he had applied himself to the liberal arts, he brought the price of his freedom to his former master, who, however, struck by his talents and learning, gave him manumission gratuitously.”

patron: Pompey “LENAEUS was a freedman of Pompey the Great, and attended him in most of his expeditions.”
enemies with Sallust “Such was his regard for his patron’s memory, that when Sallust described him as having a brazen face, and a shameless mind, he lashed the historian in a most bitter satire”

Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.