Velleius
historical figure · 2 works · 10 mentions · 20 anchored passages
Velleius Paterculus · Gaius Velleius · the Epicureans' representative · you
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
The Epicurean spokesman in the dialogue whose earlier exposition on the nature of the gods is now being answered and refuted by Cotta.
For those scandalous notions of Democritus, or even before him of Leucippus, that there are certain particles, some smooth, some rough, some round, some angular and hooked, some curved and as it were bent inward, and that of these were made the sky and the earth, with no nature compelling but by a kind of chance concourse — this opinion, Gaius Velleius, you have prolonged down to our own age, and …
yet, once they have been stated, what is there that Velleius can understand and Cotta cannot?
but in a god what "as it were body" or what "as it were blood" may be I cannot understand.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman historian cited on Maroboduus's ambitions toward kingship.
and Velleius asserts that Maroboduus not contented with the authority of a prince over voluntary adherents and dependents, was grasping in his mind at regal power;
We are informed by Velleius Paterculus, in his second book, that the Germans were surprised to see the forms of Roman jurisprudence, and those disputes, which they themselves decided by the sword, settled by law.
Upon this subject, Velleius Paterculus observes that “to blame the Athenians for revolting, at the time they were besieged by Sylla, betrays a total ignorance of history.