Titus Pomponius Atticus
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Atticus · Pomponius · Titus Pomponius · our Pomponius
in the texts
Academica
Cicero's close friend, addressee and interlocutor in the dialogue, host figure who prompts Varro's exposition.
Not long ago, when our friend Atticus was with me at my place near Cumae, word came to us from Marcus Varro that he had arrived from Rome the evening before, and that, had he not been worn out by the journey, he would have come on to us at once.
and that presentation, when it was discerned in and by itself, was 'graspable'—will you bear with these terms?
Here at first only a few words passed, while we asked whether there was perhaps any news from Rome.
On Moral Ends
A companion in the dialogue known for his devotion to Epicurus and long residence in Athens, addressed as almost an honorary Athenian.
' Then, when Quintus and Pomponius had said that they wished the same, Piso began.
When I had heard Antiochus, Brutus, as I was wont, with Marcus Piso, in that gymnasium which is called the Ptolemaeum, and together with us my brother Quintus and Titus Pomponius and Lucius Cicero — my cousin by kinship, my brother in affection — we settled among ourselves to take our afternoon walk in the Academy, chiefly because that place at that hour was free from all crowd.
'Our Pomponius indeed,' said I, 'seems to jest, and perhaps by his own right.