Quintus Lutatius Catulus
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Catulus · Quintus Catulus · the elder Catulus
in the texts
Lucullus
Roman statesman present at the philosophical gathering, addressed by Hortensius and Lucullus, who opens the recorded conversation.
'Then Antiochus said to him what Catulus mentioned yesterday as having been said by his own father to Philo, and many other things besides;
and indeed those two books of Philo, of which Catulus spoke yesterday, had then just been brought to Alexandria and had come for the first time into the hands of Antiochus.
'Although yesterday the question we were inquiring into was all but settled, so that almost the whole matter seems to have been treated, yet I am waiting for what you promised, Lucullus, to report as having heard it from Antiochus.
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman statesman of great dignity, forced to commit suicide by Marius.
why could Gaius Marius, most treacherous of all, bid Quintus Catulus, a man of most excellent dignity, to die?
Quintus Catulus, the father of our colleague and friend, loved your townsman Roscius, and even wrote of him:
Tusculan Disputations
Roman general, colleague of Marius, ordered to die by Marius in the civil war
Which, at last, was the happier — Gaius Marius then, when he shared the glory of the Cimbrian victory with his colleague Catulus, almost a second Laelius (for I count this man most like him) — or, when, victor in the civil war, angry, to Catulus' kinsmen deprecating, he answered not once but often:
On Anger
Deceased Roman described as the gentlest of men, before whose tomb Marius was tortured to death
He tore that man to pieces before the tomb of Quintus Catulus, a grievous burden to the ashes of that gentlest of men, above which a man of evil example—yet popular, and not so undeservedly as too much loved—gave up his blood drop by drop.