person
Lucius Tillius Cimber
Tillius Cimber
also: Cimber
A partisan of Julius Caesar turned assassin, who gave the signal for the murder on the Ides of March.
Reading notes
- On Anger §3.30 Tillius Cimber
A Caesarian partisan turned assassin who signalled the murder on the Ides of March.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §10.83.12 Tillius Cimber
One of Caesar's assassins, a heavy drinker and brawler; Seneca pairs him with the abstemious Cassius to show that secrets are kept by the wine-bibber and the water-drinker alike.