Marcus Brutus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Brutus
in the texts
Consolation to Helvia
Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman statesman and author of a book On Virtue, who visited Marcellus in exile and is cited as a moral authority.
do you live content with Brutus for your admirer!
that those going into exile are permitted to carry their virtues with them.
Do you doubt that that Marcellus, so great a man, often exhorted himself thus to bear his exile with an even mind:
Letters to Lucilius
Roman statesman and author of a treatise 'On Duty' cited by Seneca.
Marcus Brutus, in that book which he entitled 'On Duty,' gives many precepts both to parents and to children and to brothers;
On Benefits
Roman statesman debated as a case study: whether he should have accepted his pardoned life from Julius Caesar while planning to assassinate him, judged by the author to have erred and departed from Stoic teaching.
1 It is wont to be debated concerning Marcus Brutus, whether he ought to have accepted his life from the deified Julius, when he judged that Julius ought to be slain.