Quintus Tubero

And so a man most freeborn and grave, worthy of that intimacy of Scipio and Laelius, Panaetius, when he wrote to Quintus Tubero about the bearing of pain — what ought to have been the head of the matter, if it could be proved, namely that pain is not an evil — he nowhere set down, but what it was, and of what kind, and how much there was in it of alien, and then what the method of enduring it was;

but you have heard, I believe, Tubero, that after the death of Socrates, Plato journeyed first into Egypt to learn, and afterward into Italy and Sicily, that he might thoroughly master the discoveries of Pythagoras;

For when Publius Africanus here, the son of Paulus, had arranged to be in his gardens during the Latin Holidays, in the consulship of Tuditanus and Aquilius, and his closest friends had said they would come often to him during those days, on the morning of the Holidays themselves the first to come to him was Quintus Tubero, his sister's son.

But I, Tubero—for I will speak openly to you what I think—do not greatly assent, in this whole class of questions, to that friend of ours, who affirms of things which we can scarcely conjecture in their nature, as though he beheld them with his eyes or quite handled them with his hand.

To me, indeed, even the song of Appius Caecus, which Panaetius greatly praises in a certain letter that is addressed to Quintus Tubero, seems Pythagorean.