Appius
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
my friend Appius · old Appius
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Friend of the speaker who practiced rites for summoning the spirits of the dead.
hence those rites of calling up the dead (necyomanteia) which my friend Appius used to perform;
\" That old Appius, indeed, who was blind for many years, we understand, both from his magistracies and from his deeds, in that misfortune of his failed neither in his private nor in his public duty.
On Providence
Appius, a Roman figure who went blind, cited as evidence that blindness is not reserved for the deserving.
therefore let Appius and Metellus be deprived of the light.