Quintus Catulus

Family: Roman · Role: curator · First appears: Julius Caesar 15

Life events

• Julius Caesar abandoned his proposal to transfer Quintus Catulus's office as Capitol curator after aristocratic opposition.(Julius Caesar 15 · 📍 Capitol)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “Upon the first day of his praetorship, he summoned Quintus Catulus to render an account to the people respecting the repairs of the Capitol ; proposing a decree for transferring the office of curator to another person. But being unable to withstand the strong opposition made by the aristocratical party, whom he perceived quitting, in great numbers, their attendance upon the new consuls, and fully resolved to resist his proposal, he dropped the design.”

Julius Caesar 15

• with Julius Caesar (Caesar summoned Catulus to account for the repairs of the Capitol.) “Upon the first day of his praetorship, he summoned Quintus Catulus to render an account to the people respecting the repairs of the Capitol”

Augustus 94

• admired: Augustus “The next day, meeting Augustus, with whom till that hour he had not the least acquaintance, and looking at him with admiration, he said he was extremely like the boy he had seen in his dream.”

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