Marcus Piso
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Piso · our Piso · our friend
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Friend of the interlocutors, quoted mocking the Stoic substitution of 'preferred' for 'good' as an empty verbal maneuver.
Wittily did Marcus Piso, our friend, both in many other places and in this, mock the Stoics:
But I assent to you, Piso, that it comes about by experience that we think somewhat more keenly and attentively of famous men at the reminder of places.
When I had heard Antiochus, Brutus, as I was wont, with Marcus Piso, in that gymnasium which is called the Ptolemaeum, and together with us my brother Quintus and Titus Pomponius and Lucius Cicero — my cousin by kinship, my brother in affection — we settled among ourselves to take our afternoon walk in the Academy, chiefly because that place at that hour was free from all crowd.
On the Nature of the Gods
A philosopher associated with the Peripatetic school, noted by Cicero as absent from the gathering.
Were Marcus Piso here, no philosophy — at least of those held in honour — would lack its representative.