Lucius Piso
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the guardian of the city
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Roman statesman whose surname Frugi is cited as evidence for the broad Roman conception of frugality.
And unless it were so great, and if it were held within those narrow bounds in which most suppose, the surname of Lucius Piso would never have been so greatly praised.
Letters to Lucilius
Habitually drunk guardian of the city of Rome who was nonetheless entrusted with secret commissions by Augustus and Tiberius.
Lucius Piso, the guardian of the city, was drunk from the moment he was once made so.