Lucius Tubulus
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Tubulus
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Roman praetor notorious for openly taking bribes while presiding over the court for assassins, later exiled.
— who, when as praetor he had held the court for assassins, took bribes for his verdict so openly that in the next year Publius Scaevola, tribune of the plebs, proposed to the people whether they wished an inquiry into the matter.
For what is so repugnant as that the same man should say that what is honourable is the only good, who says that the appetite for things accommodated to living proceeds from nature?
' As though either it were granted that in all fools the vices are equally great, and that Lucius Tubulus was of the same weakness and inconstancy as that Publius Scaevola by whose bill he was condemned;
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman figure cited as an example of perjury implying disbelief in the gods.
If Lucius Tubulus, or Lupus, or Carbo, or the son of Neptune, as Lucilius says, had ever thought there were gods, would they have been so perjured or so foul?