Pompeian — Minor Figures
7 figures from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Apollophanes
admiral · first appears Augustus 16
- Augustus 16 · enemies with Augustus “he was unexpectedly attacked by Demochares and Apollophanes, Pompey’s admirals”
- Augustus 16 · employer: Pompey “Demochares and Apollophanes, Pompey’s admirals”
Demochares
admiral · first appears Augustus 16
- Augustus 16 · enemies with Augustus “he was unexpectedly attacked by Demochares and Apollophanes, Pompey’s admirals”
- Augustus 16 · employer: Pompey “Demochares and Apollophanes, Pompey’s admirals”
Sextus Pompey
politician · first appears Augustus 68
- Augustus 68 · enemies with Augustus “Sextus Pompey reproached him with being an effeminate fellow;”
- Tiberius 6 · siblings with Pompeia “The presents which were made him by Pompeia, sister to Sextus Pompey, in Sicily, namely, a cloak, with a clasp, and bullae of gold, are still in existence, and shewn at Baiae to this day.”
Afranius
commander · first appears Julius Caesar 75
- Julius Caesar 75 · enemies with Julius Caesar “Afranius and Petreius, upon a sudden change of resolution, had put to the sword all Caesar’s men who were found in the camp, he scorned to imitate the base treachery which they had practised against himself.”
- Terence · admired: Publius Terentius Afer “Afranius places him at the head of all the comic writers, declaring, in his Compitalia, Terentio non similem dices quempiam.”
Lucius Afranius
lieutenant · first appears Julius Caesar 34
- Julius Caesar 34 · enemies with Julius Caesar “and then set out for Spain, in which province Pompey had a numerous army, under the command of three lieutenants, Marcus Petreius, Lucius Afranius, and Marcus Varro; declaring amongst his friends, before he set forward, ‘That he was going against an army without a general, and should return thence against a general without an army.’”
- Julius Caesar 34 · employer: Pompey “in which province Pompey had a numerous army, under the command of three lieutenants, Marcus Petreius, Lucius Afranius, and Marcus Varro”
Marcus Petreius
lieutenant · first appears Julius Caesar 34
- Julius Caesar 34 · enemies with Julius Caesar “and then set out for Spain, in which province Pompey had a numerous army, under the command of three lieutenants, Marcus Petreius, Lucius Afranius, and Marcus Varro; declaring amongst his friends, before he set forward, ‘That he was going against an army without a general, and should return thence against a general without an army.’”
- Julius Caesar 34 · employer: Pompey “in which province Pompey had a numerous army, under the command of three lieutenants, Marcus Petreius, Lucius Afranius, and Marcus Varro”
Petreius
commander · first appears Julius Caesar 75
- Julius Caesar 75 · enemies with Julius Caesar “Afranius and Petreius, upon a sudden change of resolution, had put to the sword all Caesar’s men who were found in the camp, he scorned to imitate the base treachery which they had practised against himself.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.