Chaerea
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Figure to whom Gaius Caesar offered his own neck, i.e. his assassin.
Gaius Caesar ordered Lepidus to offer his neck to the tribune Dexter, and himself offered his to Chaerea.
On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man
A military tribune with a soft-sounding voice, mocked for effeminacy by Gaius, who became the first of the conspirators to kill him.
Chaerea was the first among the conspirators to raise his hand, the first to sever the neck through the middle with a single stroke;