person
Decimus Laelius
Laelius
also: Laelium, Laeli
A Pompeian partisan (tribune of the plebs 54 BC, later a naval legate of Pompey); after Pharsalus he returned to Italy and, like Cicero, was named by exception in Antony's edict and left waiting at Brundisium for Caesar's pardon. Cicero calls him his only partner in his 'fault' (Att. 11.14).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 11.14 §1 apart from Laelius I have no partner in my fault
Decimus Laelius, a Pompeian naval commander who like Cicero had abandoned the cause and returned to Italy. Cicero counts him the one fellow-deserter in his "fault," though Laelius had already been formally received back into favour.
- For Lucius Flaccus §2 Decimus Laelius
The young prosecutor of Flaccus, a partisan of Pompey. Cicero insinuates throughout that Pompey, hostile to Flaccus, backed the prosecution.