Acilius
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
A later contemporary of Sextus Aelius Paetus, also a legal commentator.
His later contemporary, Acilius, seems also to have been a legal commentator.
Brutus
A friend of Brutus who recites Andromache's lines from Homer during the scene of Porcia's grief.
And when Acilius, one of the friends of Brutus, recited the verses containing Andromache’s words to Hector, But, Hector, thou to me art father and honoured mother And brother;
Caesar
Soldier who lost his hand at the sea-fight at Massalia but fought on, exemplifying devotion to Caesar.
Such a man, for instance, was Acilius, who, in the sea-fight at Massalia, boarded a hostile ship and had his right hand cut off with a sword, but clung with the other hand to his shield, and dashing it into the faces of his foes, routed them all and got possession of the vessel.