person
Herodes
also: Herodes, Ἡρώδης
Herodes, a Greek rhetorician and man of letters in Atticus's circle who had written attacking Cicero. Cicero jokes that he should read Dicaearchus instead of penning such letters.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.2 §2 Herodes, if he were a man
Herodes, a Greek rhetorician and man of letters in Atticus's circle who had written attacking Cicero; Cicero jokes he should read Dicaearchus instead of penning such letters.
- Ad Atticum 14.16 §3 thread by thread
Cicero had told the rhetorician Herodes to report on his son in detail (Greek kata miton, "thread by thread," i.e. point by point); Herodes' silence worries him.
- Ad Atticum 15.16 §1 Herodes is full of the highest praise
Herodes, an Athenian rhetorician among young Marcus's teachers, whose unstinting praise Cicero is happy to believe even if he half-suspects flattery.
- Ad Atticum 15.27 §3 About Herodes and Mettius I will remember
Herodes, an Athenian rhetorician connected with the circle of Cicero's son's studies, paired with the otherwise obscure Mettius as people for whom Cicero promises to do a favour.