person
Aulus Atilius Calatinus
Calatinus
also: Calatino
Consul and dictator of the First Punic War, credited by Cicero with rightly consecrating the goddess Hope (Spes), since the mind is uplifted by the expectation of good.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.117 the most numerous peoples agreed that Calatinus was the foremost man
Aulus Atilius Calatinus, consul and dictator in the First Punic War, whose tomb-inscription near the city gate proclaimed him the foremost man of his people. Cicero asks rhetorically whether that praise was for skill in assembling pleasures.