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;
but to all ages the goat-skins of Tubero will be famous.
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.
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;