person
Gaius Plotius
Plotius
also: Caius Plotius, C. Plotius, Gaius Plotius, Plotius
A distinguished Roman knight of Nursia whose dying oral request that an inheritance reach his wife was honored, unsolicited and unprovable, by the upright Sextus Peducaeus. Cicero adduces the episode in De Finibus 2.58 to show that good men keep faith from duty, not from hope of reward.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.58 Gaius Plotius, a distinguished Roman knight from Nursia
A Roman eques of Nursia in the Sabine country whose dying oral wish that an inheritance reach his wife was honored unbidden by Sextus Peducaeus. The episode shows duty prevailing over self-interest.