Murena
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman commander who objected to a diplomatic convention on the ground it lacked written form.
We find in Appian’s history of the Mithridatic war, that it was upon this very ground Murena objected to the convention between Sylla and Mithridates.
On Mercy
One of a series of conspirators against Augustus named by Livia.
At last his wife Livia broke in upon him:
On the Shortness of Life
One of the conspirators whose plots against Augustus are mentioned.
While he was pacifying the Alps and subduing enemies entangled in the midst of peace and empire, while he was advancing his frontiers even beyond the Rhine, the Euphrates, and the Danube, in the very city of Rome the daggers of Murena, Caepio, Lepidus, Egnatius, and others were being whetted against him.