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.
Brutus, in the book which he composed On Virtue, says that he saw Marcellus in exile at Mytilene, living—so far as the nature of man permitted—most happily, and never more eager for the liberal arts than at that time.
O more fortunate was Marcellus at the time when he won Brutus' approval for his exile than when he won the state's approval for his consulship!
The senate, indeed, obtained his recall by public prayers, so anxious and sorrowful that on that day all seemed to have the mind of Brutus and to be pleading not for Marcellus but for themselves, that they might not be exiles if they were to be without him;
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.