person
Quintus Aelius Tubero
Tubero
also: Tubero, Tuberonis
Stoic and jurist, nephew of Scipio Aemilianus; the austere earthenware-and-goatskin banquet he gave at Scipio's funeral feast became a byword for honorable poverty.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §15.95.72 Tubero
Quintus Aelius Tubero, Stoic and jurist, nephew of Scipio Aemilianus; his earthenware-and-goatskin funeral banquet for Scipio became a byword for honorable poverty.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §104.21 Tubero
Q. Aelius Tubero, austere Roman Stoic of the Gracchan age, famed for his frugality.