Tiberius Coruncanius
historical figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Coruncanius
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
A Roman chief pontiff invoked as an example of genuinely religious speech, contrasted with Epicurus's actual anti-religious substance.
So that you would say you were listening to Tiberius Coruncanius or Publius Scaevola, chief pontiffs, not to a man who has utterly done away with all religion and overthrown the temples and altars of the immortal gods, not with hands, like Xerxes, but with arguments.
But when it is a question of religion, I follow Tiberius Coruncanius, Publius Scipio, Publius Scaevola, the chief pontiffs, not Zeno or Cleanthes or Chrysippus;
and many other singular men besides, both our state and Greece has borne, of whom we must believe that none was such save by the help of god.
Institutes of Roman Law
First jurist reported to have taught Roman law publicly.
The first of these who taught the science publicly is said to have been Tiberius Coruncanius (circa 280 b.
On the Happy Life
Early Roman statesman held up alongside Curius as an exemplar of frugality.
Marcus Cato, while he praised Curius and Coruncanius and that age in which it was a charge for the censor's reproof to own a few small plates of silver, himself possessed four million sesterces—less, no doubt, than Crassus, but more than Cato the Censor.