person
Dio of Alexandria
Dio
Head of the Egyptian embassy of 57 BC opposing Ptolemy XII Auletes; murdered in Rome under suspicious circumstances. Caelius was charged with complicity in the murder.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 15.10 §1 the embassy of Dio
Dio of Alexandria led the Egyptian embassy of 57 BC, a mission notorious for bribery and the murder of its envoys; Cicero invokes it as the byword for a degrading public errand, to belittle the proposed grain-commission.
- For Marcus Caelius §51 Dio
Head of the Egyptian embassy of 57 BC opposing Ptolemy XII Auletes; murdered in Rome under suspicious circumstances; one of the five formal charges against Caelius was complicity in this murder.