Gnaeus Aufidius
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
an ex-praetor
in the texts
On Moral Ends
A learned Roman of praetorian rank, blind, quoted by the narrator as longing for light itself rather than its usefulness.
For my part I often used to hear from Gnaeus Aufidius, a man of praetorian rank, learned, deprived of his eyes, when he said that he was moved by the longing for light more than for usefulness.
Tusculan Disputations
Blind ex-praetor who continued senatorial and literary activity
When we were boys, Gnaeus Aufidius, an ex-praetor, both gave his opinion in the senate, and did not fail his friends in their deliberations, and wrote a Greek history, and saw in letters.