person
Lucius Afranius
Afranius
Pompeian legate of long standing; consul 60 BC; commander of two of Pompey's Spanish legions in 49 BC; killed in Africa in 46 BC after Thapsus.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 1.16 §12 the son of Aulus
L. Afranius, Pompey's loyal lieutenant, whom Pompey was pushing (with bribery) into the consulship of 60 BC. "Auli filius" hints at his undistinguished birth.
- Ad Atticum 1.18 §5 the son of Aulus
L. Afranius, consul of 60 BC and Pompey's man, here scorned by his patronymic. Cicero mocks his military incompetence and his meekness before the demagogue Palicanus.
- Ad Atticum 1.20 §5 The son of Aulus
L. Afranius (consul 60 BC), Pompey's man, whose consulship Cicero dismisses as so feeble that it is merely a "black eye" (Greek hypopion) on Pompey's reputation rather than a real magistracy.
- Ad Familiares 9.13 §1 after the defeat of Afranius, none of us thought there would be any further war at all
L. Afranius, consul 60 and Pompey's loyal legate, commanded the Pompeian forces in Spain until Caesar defeated him and Petreius at Ilerda in 49 BC. With Spain apparently pacified, it seemed a safe refuge --- until the Pompeian revival under Scapula and the younger Pompey reopened the war.
- Tusculan Disputations §4.45 that line drawn from life by Afranius
Lucius Afranius, Roman writer of comedies in Roman dress (fabulae togatae). Cicero twice quotes his line about a stern father wishing his dissolute son to feel pain.