Quintus Aelius Tubero (Stoic)

Quintus Aelius Tubero was a Stoic philosopher and a pupil of Panaetius of Rhodes. He had a reputation for talent and legal knowledge.[1][2][3][4] He might have been a tribune of the plebs in 130 BC.[5][6] He also possibly became a suffect consul in 118 BC.[7]

Not to be confused with Quintus Aelius Tubero, the Roman jurist, statesman and writer.

Cicero spoke of his character in parallel to his oratorical style: "harsh, unpolished, and austere."[8] Despite this, Cicero also calls him "a man of the most rigid virtue, and strictly conformable to the doctrine he professed."[9]

He was the grandson of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus,[10] Thus, he was both a cousin of Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus, and also the nephew of Scipio Aemilianus. This association, alongside the approval of Panaetius, gave him access to the Scipionic Circle.

When Scipio Aemilianus died mysteriously in 129 BC, Tubero was responsible for the funeral arrangements. With Cynic-like aesthetics, he arranged Punic couches with goatskin covers and Samian pottery. The lack of public grandeur, allegedly, lost him the election for praetorship.[11]

Panaetius wrote an epistle to Tubero concerning endurance of pain.[12] A scholar of Panaetius dedicated a treatise called De Officiis to Tubero.[13]

References
  1. Cic. Brut. 117
  2. Cic. pro Muren. 75
  3. Tac. Ann. xvi. 22
  4. Gell. i. 22
  5. Broughton, vol. I, p. 502.
  6. Ten Speeches. Retrieved 26 November 2014 – via Google Books.
  7. "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1179 (v. 3)". Ancientlibrary.com. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  8. Cicero. Brutus, 117
  9. Cicero. Brutus, 117
  10. "Cicero: Brutus - translation (2)". Attalus.org. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  11. Cic. pro Muren. 75
  12. Cicero, De Finibus, iv. 9, 23
  13. "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1179 (v. 3)". Ancientlibrary.com. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2014.

Bibliography

Modern sources
  • T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association, 1952–1960.
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