person
Tricho
A Roman knight of Seneca's own day who flogged his son to death and was set upon by the crowd in the forum with their styluses, barely saved by Augustus's intervention.
Reading notes
- On Mercy §1.15 Tricho
A Roman knight of recent memory who flogged his own son to death and was nearly lynched in the forum, an instance of a father's cruelty justly abhorred.