Marcus Junius Brutus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Brutus · your uncle Cato
in the texts
Academica
Roman statesman praised for his mastery of philosophy in Latin, pupil of Aristus.
Our friend Brutus, indeed, outstanding in every kind of distinction, so pursues philosophy in Latin letters that on the same subjects you would miss nothing in Greek;
Stoic Paradoxes
The dedicatee of the work, addressed directly by the author throughout the preface; nephew of Cato.
for Cato is accustomed to discuss in the Stoic manner only such subjects as greatness of soul, self-restraint, death, every form of the praise of virtue, the immortal gods, and love of one's country, employing the ornaments of oratory;
whereas Cato, in my judgment a perfect Stoic, both holds views that are by no means approved among the crowd, and belongs to that school which pursues no flower of oratory and does not amplify its argument, but accomplishes what it has set out to prove by minute little questions, as it were by pin-pricks.
I have often observed, Brutus, that your uncle Cato, when delivering his opinion in the Senate, would handle weighty themes drawn from philosophy, far removed as they are from this forensic and public usage of ours, and yet by his eloquence he managed nonetheless to make even those doctrines seem credible to the people.
Institutes of Roman Law
One of the founders of scientific Roman jurisprudence.
The founders of this scientific jurisprudence, whose labours were to be perpetuated by the lawyers of the Principate, were Marcus Junius Brutus, Marcus Manilius and Publius Mucius Scaevola, all of whom Edition: