Conspirators — 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.

Tullius Cimber

conspirator · first appears Julius Caesar 82

• Julius Caesar 82 · enemies with Julius Caesar “Tullius Cimber, who had engaged to commence the assault, advancing nearer than the rest, as if he had some favour to request, Caesar made signs that he should defer his petition to some other time. Tullius immediately seized him by the toga, on both shoulders;”

Chaerea

assassin · first appears Caligula 58

• Caligula 58 · enemies with Caligula “Some say, that, whilst he was speaking to the boys, Chaerea came behind him, and gave him a heavy blow on the neck with his sword, first crying out, ‘Take this:’”

Cornelius Sabinus

tribune and assassin · first appears Caligula 58

• Caligula 58 · enemies with Caligula “that then a tribune, by name Cornelius Sabinus, another of the conspirators, ran him through the breast.”

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