Timagenes
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the writer of histories
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Historian and enemy of Rome's prosperity who remarked that Rome's fires grieved him only because finer buildings would replace what burned.
Timagenes, an enemy to the prosperity of the city, used to say that the fires of Rome grieved him for this one reason, that he knew better buildings would rise than had burned.
On Anger
A historian whose slanders against Augustus and his family led to his exclusion from the imperial house but no further punishment.
Timagenes, the writer of histories, had said certain things against him, certain things against his wife and his whole house, nor had he wasted his words;
He recited the histories he had written afterwards, and the books containing the deeds of Caesar Augustus he put into the fire and burned;
" For Pollio had at one time been angry with Timagenes, and had had no other cause for ceasing than that Caesar had begun.