Corbulo
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman general referenced as commander under whom the legion earlier defeated the Armenians.
So in Tacitus, Antony the First serving under Vespasian, reminds the soldiers of the third legion of what they had done in former times, how under Mark Antony they had beaten the Parthians, and under Corbulo the Armenians.
On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man
Roman figure who mocked Fidus Cornelius with the taunt 'plucked ostrich.'
" In the Senate we have seen Fidus Cornelius, son-in-law of Ovidius Naso, weeping when Corbulo had called him a "plucked ostrich";