Vatinius
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Vatiniuses · the Vatiniuses · the likes of Vatinius
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Roman political figure used as an example of one favored by fortune's caprice
I know that with you the Catos are rejected, the Vatiniuses made.
Some are by turns Vatiniuses, by turns Catos;
Here that saying of Calvus against Vatinius is to be repeated:
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman figure to whom the Dioscuri reportedly appeared on the Salarian road announcing a Roman victory
Do you not see the temple dedicated by Aulus Postumius to Castor and Pollux in the forum, do you not see the decree of the senate about Vatinius?
'But we see the gods present, as Postumius did at Regillus, Vatinius on the Salarian road' — and I know not what too about the battle of the Locrians at the Sagra.
On Providence
Publius Vatinius, a Roman politician of lesser repute, named as someone who outranked Cato in office.
let him be ranked below Vatinius.
On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man
Roman politician, described as corrupt and physically deformed, later shown mocking his own defects to blunt his enemies' ridicule.
Vatinius, a man born both to be laughed at and to be hated, was, it is recorded in memory, a clown, and charming and sharp of tongue.
Recently, when mention happened to be made of Marcus Cato, you grew indignant, as you cannot endure injustice, that Cato's own age had understood him too little, that it had ranked a man who rose above the likes of Pompey and Caesar below the likes of Vatinius;
Then I answered that you had cause to be moved on behalf of the commonwealth, which Publius Clodius on this side, Vatinius on that, and every worst man, were putting up for sale, and, seized by blind greed, did not understand that even as they sold it they were themselves being sold.