Tubero
historical figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Roman exemplar of frugality, invoked as a standard inconstant men find insufficiently austere.
and now Curius is to them not severe enough, Fabricius not poor enough, Tubero not frugal enough nor content with cheap things;
the wooden couches of Tubero, spread for a public banquet, and the goat-skins instead of coverlets, and, before the very shrine of Jupiter, earthen vessels set out for the feast.
but to all ages the goat-skins of Tubero will be famous.
Lucullus
Recipient of Panaetius's advice to memorize Crantor's treatise on grief.
for it is not great, but a little golden one, and, as Panaetius advises Tubero, to be learned by heart word for word.
On the Commonwealth
Interlocutor in the dialogue who presses Scipio on what discipline preserves a commonwealth.
When Scipio had said these things, and, all being silent, the rest of his discourse was awaited, then Tubero:
"I think there will soon be for us, Tubero, a fitter place of discoursing about establishing and preserving states;