Spurius Mummius
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Mummius · Spurius · the Isthmian, your games-president, Mummius
in the texts
On the Commonwealth
Friend accompanying Laelius to Scipio's gathering.
Spurius Mummius, whom he held especially dear, and Gaius Fannius and Quintus Scaevola, sons-in-law of Laelius, learned young men, now of quaestorian age.
"I recognize," he said, "that habit of yours, Spurius, averse from the cause of the people;
why that should be a commonwealth and the affair of a people which has been said of kingship.
Orations
Roman general, president of the Isthmian games, criticized for dedicating a statue of his uneducated brother as Zeus and mislabeling other statues.
but the Isthmian, your games-president, Mummius, having torn him up from his base, dedicated to Zeus — alas for the ignorance — his brother as a dedication, an uneducated man and one who had had trial of none of the noble things.