Gaius Trebonius

Reading notes

• Ad Atticum 4.8A §2 About Trebonius

  C. Trebonius, tribune 55 BC, carried the lex Trebonia assigning the Spains to Pompey and Syria to Crassus for five years; Cicero and Atticus are weighing his conduct.

• Ad Atticum 11.20 §1 a freedman of Gaius Trebonius

  C. Trebonius, a Caesarian officer (and later one of Caesar's assassins), had been with the army in the East; his freedman is the source of Cicero's news that the nephew had won Caesar's pardon at Antioch.

• Ad Atticum 12.43 §2 You will see the Trebonian heirs too, although the owners are away

  The horti Treboniani belonged to C. Trebonius, the Caesarian (and later one of Caesar's assassins), then absent from Rome; the sale would have to go through his co-heirs. These trans-Tiberim gardens were another candidate site for the fanum.

• Ad M. Brutum 1.6 §3 Satrius, the lieutenant of C. Trebonius

  Gaius Trebonius, one of the Liberators (consul 45 BC), was murdered by Dolabella at Smyrna in early 43 BC; the dispatch apparently brought earlier intelligence of Dolabella's defeat in Asia, which Trebonius's surviving lieutenants relayed westward.

• Ad M. Brutum 2.3 §1 Trebonius's death

  Gaius Trebonius, one of Caesar's assassins and governor of the province of Asia, was seized and murdered by Dolabella at Smyrna in early 43 BC; his death was both a personal loss and a strategic blow to the Liberators.

• Ad Familiares 10.28 §1 How I wish you had invited me to that most beautiful banquet on the Ides of March!

  Grim wit: the "banquet" is the assassination of Caesar, in which Trebonius shared by detaining Antony in conversation outside the Senate house. Cicero, not among the conspirators, jokes that he was not "invited."

• Ad Familiares 12.16 §1 TREBONIVS CICERONI S.

  The opening of a letter from C. Trebonius (governor of Asia, one of Caesar's assassins) to Cicero. The S. is salutem (dicit), "sends greetings".

• Ad Familiares 15.21 §2 when as quaestor you refused to obey a tribune of the plebs

  Trebonius was quaestor in 60 BC; Cicero recalls his stand on the optimate side, refusing a tribune's order even when his fellow quaestor complied. The episode is otherwise unrecorded.

• Eleventh Philippic §1 Gaius Trebonius

  Gaius Trebonius, one of the assassins of Caesar, governing the province of Asia as proconsul; his torture and murder by Dolabella at Smyrna early in 43 BC is the occasion of this speech.

• Second Philippic §34 with Gaius Trebonius at Narbo

  C. Trebonius, one of Caesar's assassins, who at the killing drew Antony aside in conversation; Cicero alleges Antony had earlier been sounded out about the plot at Narbo in Gaul.