Perpenna

Family: Roman · Role: general · First appears: Pompey

Life events

• Perpenna’s conspiracy culminated in Antonius stabbing Sertorius, who died under repeated blows.(Sertorius)
  • With: Sertorius Antonius
  • “and Antonius, who was next to Sertorius, immediately wounded him with his sword. And whilst Sertorius, upon receiving the wound, turned himself, and strove to get up, Antonius threw himself upon his breast, and held both his hands, so that he died by a number of blows, without being able even to defend himself.”
• Pompey burned Sertorius’s papers and ordered the captured Perpenna executed.(Sertorius)
  • With: Pompey
  • “For he put all Sertorius's writings and letters together and read not one of them, nor suffered anyone else to read them, but burnt them all, and caused Perpenna immediately to be put to death, lest by discovering their names, further troubles and revolutions might ensue.”

Pompey

• enemies with Pompey “Pompey therefore marched directly against, Perpenna”

Also listed in Roman — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.