Marcus Atilius Regulus
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Marcus Regulus · Regulus · Marcus Atilius
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Roman general and twice consul who voluntarily returned to Carthage to keep his word, enduring torture and death, held up as more blessed than the pleasure-seeking Thorius.
Regulus, when of his own free will, compelled by no force except the good faith which he had given to the enemy, he had returned from his country to Carthage — at that very moment, when he was tortured with wakefulness and hunger, virtue cries that he was more blessed than Thorius drinking among the roses.
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman general captured by Carthage and reputedly tortured to death.
why was the body of Regulus given to the cruelty of the Carthaginians;
Stoic Paradoxes
Roman general captured and tortured by the Carthaginians, held up as an example of a happy man despite suffering, because his virtue remained untouched.
Nor, indeed, have I ever thought Marcus Regulus wretched, or unhappy, or miserable;
Tusculan Disputations
Roman statesman (likely Regulus) cited as an example of a good man whose fortune was harsh.
and she recalls many things about Marcus Atilius, Quintus Caepio, Manius Aquilius, and prudence herself holds back the happy life, when it tries to go upon the rack — if you prefer to use images rather than the things themselves — and denies that it has anything in common with pain and torment.