Caepio
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
his grandfather · our Caepio
in the texts
On Moral Ends
The deceased grandfather of young Lucullus, highly esteemed by Cicero, invoked as part of the family memory motivating Cicero's concern for the boy's education.
for I am moved both by the memory of his grandfather — for you are not unaware how highly I esteemed Caepio, who, as my opinion bears, would now be among the foremost, were he alive — and Lucullus rises before my eyes, a man excelling in all virtues, and joined to me both by friendship and by every wish and opinion.
On Mercy
One of a series of conspirators against Augustus named by Livia.
At last his wife Livia broke in upon him:
On the Shortness of Life
One of the conspirators whose plots against Augustus are mentioned.
While he was pacifying the Alps and subduing enemies entangled in the midst of peace and empire, while he was advancing his frontiers even beyond the Rhine, the Euphrates, and the Danube, in the very city of Rome the daggers of Murena, Caepio, Lepidus, Egnatius, and others were being whetted against him.