Household — Minor Figures

3 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.

Cosmus

slave · first appears Augustus 67

• Augustus 67 · employer: Augustus “when his slave, Cosmus, had reflected bitterly upon him, he resented the injury no further than by putting him in fetters.”
• Augustus 67 · with Augustus “when his slave, Cosmus, had reflected bitterly upon him, he resented the injury no further than by putting him in fetters.”

Diomedes

steward · first appears Augustus 67

• Augustus 67 · employer: Augustus “When his steward, Diomedes, left him to the mercy of a wild boar, which suddenly attacked them while they were walking together, he considered it rather a cowardice than a breach of duty;”

Thallus

secretary · first appears Augustus 67

• Augustus 67 · employer: Augustus “He broke the legs of his secretary, Thallus, for taking a bribe of five hundred denarii to discover the contents of one of his letters.”

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