person
Publius Vatinius
Vatinius
also: Vatinius, Vatinii
Caesarian politician of the late Republic (tribune 59 BC, consul 47 BC), a byword for ugliness and unpopularity; Seneca uses him twice, as the contemptible foil to Cato and as a deformed wit who disarmed mockery by mocking himself.
Reading notes
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man §1.3 Vatiniuses
Publius Vatinius, Caesarian politician proverbial for ugliness and unpopularity; 'below the Vatiniuses' marks how Cato's age misranked him beneath worthless men.
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man §17.3 Vatinius
Publius Vatinius again: born for laughter and hatred, a deformed wit who blunted his enemies' mockery, even Cicero's, by mocking his own feet and scarred throat.
- On Providence §3.14 Vatinius
Publius Vatinius, a notoriously disreputable politician and creature of Caesar; that Cato should be outranked in honor by such a man is offered as one of fortune's tests.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §15.94.25 Vatinius
Publius Vatinius, Caesarian politician of the late Republic, a byword for ugliness and unpopularity; here the defendant whose proven bribery 'everyone knows.'
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §20.118.4 Vatiniuses
P. Vatinius (cos. 47 BC), Caesar's notorious and widely loathed agent; a by-word for an unworthy man who nonetheless wins office, set against the rejected Catos.