Catulus
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Lucullus
Roman figure addressed as kinsman of the mad Tuditanus, invoked briefly in the discussion of madness and false impressions.
Of what kind, pray, was your kinsman, Catulus, Tuditanus?
So you now, Catulus, do not know that it is light, nor you, Hortensius, that we are in your villa.
I return to my father's opinion, which indeed he used to say was that of Carneades — that I think nothing can be perceived, yet judge that the wise man will assent to the unperceived, that is, will hold an opinion, but so that he understands that he is holding an opinion, and knows that there is nothing which can be comprehended and perceived.
Meditations
A teacher who taught Marcus not to dismiss a friend's complaints and to praise one's teachers.
From Catulus:
Letters to Lucilius
Roman figure who wittily mocked the Clodian jurors after the acquittal
These Clodian jurors had asked the senate for a guard, which was not necessary except for men about to condemn, and had obtained it.