M. POMPILIUS ANDRONICUS

Role: grammarian · First appears: Grammarians 8

Life events

M. POMPILIUS ANDRONICUS retired to Cumae after being surpassed by other teachers at Rome.(Grammarians 8 · 📍 Cumae)
- “Finding, therefore, that, at Rome, not only Antonius Gnipho, but even other teachers of less note were preferred to him, he retired to Cumae”
M. POMPILIUS ANDRONICUS sold his work “The Index to the Annals” for sixteen thousand sesterces.(Grammarians 8)
- “he was so needy, and reduced to such straits, as to be compelled to sell that excellent little work of his, ‘The Index to the Annals,’ for sixteen thousand sesterces.”
Orbilius redeemed the neglected work and arranged its publication under the author's name.(Grammarians 8)
- With: Orbilius
- “Orbilius has informed us, that he redeemed this work from the oblivion into which it had fallen, and took care to have it published with the author’s name.”

rivals with Antonius Gnipho “Finding, therefore, that, at Rome, not only Antonius Gnipho, but even other teachers of less note were preferred to him, he retired to Cumae, where he lived at his ease;”
patron: Orbilius “Orbilius has informed us, that he redeemed this work from the oblivion into which it had fallen, and took care to have it published with the author’s name.”

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