person
Lucius Bestia (Antonian)
Bestia
also: Bestia, Bestiam
An Antonian partisan, an aspiring office-seeker repeatedly attacked by Cicero, who calls him the punching-bag of his lungs and voice. He is named among Antony's disreputable adherents and among those forming the bogus 'senate' in Antony's camp.
Reading notes
- Thirteenth Philippic §26 Bestia, the punching-bag of my lungs and my voice
Cicero catalogues the disreputable men who make up the bogus "senate" in Antony's camp. Bestia, a frequent target of Cicero's invective, is the "corycus" (a boxer's punching-bag) on which he exercises his lungs and voice.