Quintus Hortensius
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Hortensius · our friend Hortensius
in the texts
Lucullus
A Roman orator present at the dialogue who reacts with admiration to Lucullus's speech and urges the narrator to abandon his skeptical position.
Hortensius, however, marvelling vehemently (which indeed he had done throughout while Lucullus spoke, so that he even often raised his hands;
Can it be that you, who have extolled philosophy with such great praises and have stirred our friend Hortensius, who dissented, should follow that philosophy which confounds true with false, despoils us of judgement, deprives us of all approval, robs us of the senses?
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman orator criticized for keeping part of an inheritance obtained by fraud.
Having explained in the preceding part the nature and rights of property, it remains for us to consider the obligation which we incur from thence.