Torquatus
historical figure · 2 works · 7 mentions · 11 anchored passages
I · he · our school · the wise man · you
in the texts
On Moral Ends
The unnamed first-person speaker of this passage, an adherent of Epicureanism addressing an interlocutor (Cicero) and defending Epicurus against the charge of being unlearned and hedonistic.
And this is done even now by the Epicureans.
Therefore no fool is happy, and no wise man is not happy.
For thus is the wise man by Epicurus brought in as always happy:
Tusculan Disputations
Roman hero who won his surname by stripping a torque from a defeated Gaul without acting from anger.
I do not think that even that Torquatus, who invented this surname, was angry when he stripped the torque from the Gaul;