person
Lucius Manlius Torquatus
L. Torquatus
Roman consul 65 BC; supporter of Cicero, advocate of his recall from exile. Triumphed from Macedonia.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 13.5 §1 I have sent you the
The "Torquatus" is the roll or book of Cicero's De Finibus named after its Epicurean speaker; Cicero is sending Atticus a copy. He routinely refers to the dialogue's books by their chief interlocutor.
- Ad Atticum 13.9 §1 Torquatus came to me
Lucius Manlius Torquatus, a friend of Cicero whose legal or personal business Cicero had taken up; he is the Epicurean spokesman of Cicero's De Finibus book 1. Dolabella reports to him the care Cicero gave his case.
- Ad Atticum 13.32 §3 Torquatus is at Rome
L. Manlius Torquatus is the Epicurean spokesman in book 1 of Cicero's De Finibus. The "book" being delivered is a copy of one of Cicero's own philosophical works.
- Ad Atticum 13.45 §2 Torquatus's case
Lucius Manlius Torquatus, the Epicurean who speaks for that school in Cicero's De Finibus; some business of his keeps Cicero from travelling to Puteoli.
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §1.13 Lucius Torquatus
L. Manlius Torquatus, the Epicurean spokesman of the dialogue, who delivers the exposition of Epicurean ethics in Book 1. A real contemporary of Cicero's, he died fighting for the Pompeian cause.
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §3.2 that conversation which was held with Torquatus
A back-reference to Books 1-2, where the Epicurean L. Manlius Torquatus expounded and Cicero refuted the doctrine that pleasure is the highest good. Book 3 now turns from Epicureanism to the Stoic system.
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §5.21 about pleasure with Torquatus
A back-reference to Books 1-2, where the Epicurean L. Manlius Torquatus expounded and Cicero refuted the doctrine that pleasure is the highest good.
- For Publius Sulla §2 Lucius Torquatus, my close friend and connection
L. Manlius Torquatus, the young lead prosecutor, son of the consul of 65 whose election Sulla's conviction had made possible. He attacked not only Sulla but Cicero's own conduct as consul, so Cicero couples Sulla's defence with a defence of himself.