Sextus Papinius
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
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Letters to Lucilius
A man who lived entirely by night, one of the 'crowd of light-shunners,' described through the sounds heard from his household.
he consumed nothing but the night.
We had heard Pedo Albinovanus relating—and he was a most elegant teller of tales—that he had lived above the house of Sextus Papinius.
On Anger
Son of a man of consular rank, tortured by Gaius Caesar
Lately Gaius Caesar, in one day, scourged and tortured Sextus Papinius, whose father was of consular rank, Betilienus Bassus his own quaestor, the son of his procurator, and others, both senators and Roman knights—not for the sake of inquiry but for the pleasure of it;