Hortensius
historical figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
our own Hortensius
in the texts
Lucullus
Interlocutor and villa host, addressed directly and giving a brief closing remark endorsing Academic skepticism.
'It must be done away with.
So you now, Catulus, do not know that it is light, nor you, Hortensius, that we are in your villa.
On Fate
Roman orator used as the example subject in a proposition illustrating the necessity that a future statement be either true or false.
‘If this proposition, “Hortensius will come to his Tusculan villa,” is not true, it follows that it is false.
On Moral Ends
Roman orator who, in Cicero's earlier work, attacked philosophy, prompting Cicero's defense of it.
As for the disparagers of philosophy, answer enough has been given in that book in which philosophy was defended and praised by me when it had been accused and reviled by Hortensius.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman orator renowned for extraordinary memory, listed among the famed mnemonists.
I do not ask how great a memory Simonides is said to have had, how great Theodectes, how great Cineas, who was sent as envoy by Pyrrhus to the senate, how great Charmadas lately, how great Metrodorus of Scepsis, who lived but recently, how great our own Hortensius:
On Anger
Roman orator cited as a hypothetical example of a writer sensitive to disapproval.
Then Ennius, in whom you take no delight, would have hated you, and Hortensius, if you disapproved his speeches, would declare a feud against you, and Cicero, if you derided his verses, would be your enemy.
De Pallio
Roman orator credited as the first to serve peacock as food.
I will cut off the gullet by which Hortensius the orator was first able to kill a peacock for food's sake, by which Aufidius Lurco first vitiated bodies by stuffing and, by forced foods, advanced them to an adulterated flavour, by which Asinius Celer brought down a relish of one mullet for six thousand sesterces, by which Aesopus the actor confiscated in a single dish, costing a hundred thousand, …