Gaius Fannius
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Fannius
in the texts
Lucullus
Historian cited as the source for the claim that Africanus possessed Socratic irony.
so that, saying one thing while thinking another, he was wont gladly to use that dissimulation which the Greeks call eironeia (irony) — which Fannius says was found even in Africanus, and that on that account it ought not to be reckoned a fault in him, since the same was found in Socrates.
On the Commonwealth
Son-in-law of Laelius, learned young man of quaestorian age.
Spurius Mummius, whom he held especially dear, and Gaius Fannius and Quintus Scaevola, sons-in-law of Laelius, learned young men, now of quaestorian age.