Quintus Tubero
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Tubero
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Recipient of Panaetius's letter on the bearing of pain.
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;
On the Commonwealth
Scipio's nephew, a studious young man, first interlocutor to arrive at the dialogue.
Then Tubero:
" said Tubero;
For which reason, Tubero, learning and learned men and those studies of yours have always pleased me.
Tusculan Disputations
Recipient of a letter from Panaetius discussing the song of Appius Caecus.
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.