person
Gaius Vergilius
C. Vergilius
also: C. Vergilius, Vergilius
A Roman official and close friend of Cicero, kinsman (propinquus) of C. Coelius Caldus; he wrote to Cicero recommending Caldus in 50 BC. Probably identifiable with the C. Vergilius criticised alongside Quintus Cicero in Q. fr. 1.2 as a provincial governor, suggesting a former propraetor in the eastern provinces.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 12.51 §2 About Vergilius, as you write
Gaius Vergilius, an ex-praetor (propraetor of Sicily in 62 BC), here connected with a property auction that touched the gardens Cicero was seeking. He is not the poet Virgil, who was still a youth in 45 BC.
- Ad Atticum 13.26 §1 About Vergilius's share
C. Vergilius, a co-owner whose portion of a riverside property near Rome Cicero hoped to buy. The purchase belongs to Cicero's long hunt for a site for the shrine (fanum) he meant to raise to his dead daughter Tullia.
- Ad Atticum 13.33 §2 About Vergilius I feel no embarrassment \textit{[Greek: dys\=opia]}
C. Vergilius held a share or interest in the property under negotiation; dysōpia is the Greek for the bashful reluctance Cicero says he does not feel toward him. Cicero reasons he owes Vergilius no favour that should deter the purchase.
- Ad Familiares 2.19 §2 C. Vergilius, your kinsman and one of my closest friends
C. Vergilius, likely the man criticised alongside Quintus Cicero in Cic. Q. fr. 1.2 as a former propraetor in that region; here Cicero stresses his closeness to Vergilius to underline the weight of the double recommendation Caldus was receiving.