person
Lucius Decidius Saxa
Saxa
also: Decidius Saxa
A Caesarian partisan of Spanish (Celtiberian) origin, made tribune of the plebs by Caesar; Cicero sneers that he was once a surveyor of camps who now hopes to mark out the city. A henchman of Antony attacked repeatedly in the later Philippics.
Reading notes
- Eleventh Philippic §12 Saxa
Lucius Decidius Saxa, a Caesarian of Spanish (Celtiberian) origin made tribune of the plebs; Cicero sneers that this former camp-surveyor now hopes to survey the city itself.