Volesus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
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Meditations
Early Roman figure cited as an example of a once-famous, now archaic name.
so too the names of men once much sung are now in a way archaisms — Camillus, Caeso, Volesus, Dentatus;
On Anger
Proconsul of Asia under Augustus who beheaded three hundred men in a day and gloried in the act.
Volesus, lately, under the deified Augustus, when proconsul of Asia, having beheaded three hundred men in one day, walked among the corpses with a proud face, as though he had done some grand and noteworthy thing, and cried out in Greek: