Plutarch's Lives

Pindarus

Family: Cassius's party · Role: freedman of Cassius · First appears: Marcus Brutus

Life events

  • Cassius mistakenly believed Titinius captured and ordered Pindarus to kill him.(Marcus Brutus)
    • With: Cassius
    • “After which words he retired into an empty tent, taking along with him only Pindarus, one of his freedmen, whom he had reserved for such an occasion ever since the disasters in the expedition against the Parthians, when Crassus was slain. From the Parthians he came away in safety; but now, pulling up his mantle over his head, he made his neck bare, and held it forth to Pindarus, commanding him to strike.”

Marcus Brutus

  • employer: Cassius “taking along with him only Pindarus, one of his freedmen”
  • with Cassius (interaction) “Pindarus, one of his freedmen, whom he had reserved for such an occasion”

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