Thrasea was the subject of a panegyric by Arulenus Rusticus, one of the tribunes, who had offered to put his veto on the decree of the senate, but Thrasea refused to allow him to throw his life away uselessly.
Thrasea's own model of life and conduct was Cato of Utica, on whom he had written a panegyric, one of Plutarch's chief authorities in his biography of Cato.
Clodius is the Roman nomen Claudius altered to a spelling that would have sounded plebeian to Roman ears.
PubliusClodius Quirinalis, from Arelate in Gaul, teacher of rhetoric in time of Nero
Clodio the Longhair, a chieftain of the Salian Franks, is sometime called "Clodius I".
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Clodius succeded in being adopted into the plebeian branch of his family in 59 and was in 58 elected tribune, an office for which patrician s were ineligible.
Clodius, dressed as a woman (men were not admitted to the mysteries), entered the house of Caesar (then pontifex maximus), where the mysteries were being celebrated, in order to carry on an intrigue with Pompeia Sulla, Caesar's wife.
Clodius subsequently attacked the workmen who were rebuilding Cicero's house at the public cost, assaulted Cicero himself in the street, and set fire to the house of Q. Cicero.
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PubliusClodiusThraseaPaetus war ein römischer Senator und Stoiker in der Regierungszeit des Kaisers Nero.
Thrasea erreichte die Nachricht zuhause, als der einige Freunde bewirtete, zog sich in sein Zimmer zurück und schnitt sich die Pulsadern auf.
Thrasea war das Subjekt einer Lobschrift von Arulenus Rusticus, einem Tribun, der angeboten hatten, sein Veto über das Dekret des Senates einzulegen, dem Thrasea es aber verbot, sein Leben nutzlos wegzuwerfen.
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Her husband upheld the family tradition when he walked out of the Senate after a self-serving letter was read in which the emperor Nero enumerated the charges that justified the death of his own mother, the younger Agrippina.
ThraseaPaetus was accused in the Senate of treason.
His offer had been refused, for ThraseaPaetus did not wish to jeopardize the young man at the beginning of his career by causing him to directly oppose the Senate and the emperor.
In 59Thrasea first openly showed his disgust at the behaviour of Nero and the obsequiousness of the senate by retiring without voting after the See also:
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decree of the senate, but Thrasea refused to allow him to throw his life away uselessly.
He was the husband of Arria the daughter of Arria (q.v.), father-inlaw of Helvidius Priscus, and a friend and kinsman of the poet Persius.
53 F. Hersche, Zwei Characterbilder, on Diogenes of Sinope and Paetus (Lucerne, 1865); monographs by A. Hoitsema (Groningen, 1852); and G. Joachim (Lahr, 1858); see also Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopiidie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (1900), iv.
Wie sein Schwiegervater PubliusClodiusThraseaPaetus war er angesehen für seinen leidenschaftlichen und mutigen Republikanismus.
Obwohl er wiederholt seine Herrscher beleidigte, hatte er verschiedene hohe Ämter inne.
seine Rückkehr veranlasst hatte, klagte er sofort Eprius Marcellus an, den Ankläger seines Schwiegervaters ThraseaPaetus, ließ aber die Klage fallen, als deutlich wurde, dass eine Verteilung des Marcellus eine Reihe von Senatoren mitbetroffen hätte.
In 62 B.C. he created a tremendous scandal when, disguised as a woman, he entered the house of Julius Caesar at the time of the women's mysteries of Bona Dea.
The results were that Caesar divorced his wife
She was wife, in turn, of PubliusClodius, Quintus Scribonius...
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