Lucius Antonius

Reading notes

• Ad Atticum 14.20 §2 Lucius Antonius's harangue

  Lucius Antonius, youngest brother of Mark Antony and tribune of the plebs in 44 BC; his public speech (contio) struck Cicero as menacing, in contrast to the consul Dolabella's, which he found "brilliant."

• Ad Atticum 15.2 §2 L.~Antonius has spoken at a public meeting

  Lucius Antonius, Mark Antony's younger brother and a tribune in 44 BC; Cicero reports with distaste his demagogic speech-making (contio) before the people.

• Ad Atticum 15.5 §3 Lucius Antonius is moving against Decimus Brutus

  Lucius Antonius, Antony's brother, was agitating against Decimus Brutus Albinus (the assassin governing Cisalpine Gaul), part of the wider Antonian push that Cicero reads as heading toward open war.

• Ad Atticum 15.12 §2 As for Lucius Antonius

  Lucius Antonius, the youngest of Mark Antony's brothers and tribune of the plebs in 44 BC; here he is cordial, sending Cicero a reassuring letter, though elsewhere Cicero counts his goodwill a doubtful favour.

• Ad Atticum 15.15 §1 A curse on Lucius Antonius

  Lucius Antonius, Mark Antony's youngest brother and tribune of 44 BC; here Cicero rounds on him for obstructing the Buthrotum settlement that Atticus and Cicero had worked to secure.

• Ad Familiares 10.15 §3 Lucius Antonius had been sent ahead

  Lucius Antonius, the youngest brother of Mark Antony, tribune in 44 BC; here he leads Antony's advance cavalry into Transalpine Gaul. He later led the so-called Perusine War against Octavian in 41-40 BC.

• Ad Familiares 10.33 §4 L. Antonius has seized the Alpine passes

  Lucius Antonius, Mark Antony's youngest brother and a legate in his army; holding the Alpine passes would secure the line of retreat into Transalpine Gaul toward Lepidus and Plancus.

• Twelfth Philippic §20 the Asiatic murmillo

  Lucius Antonius, Antony's brother, sneered at as a "murmillo" (a heavily armed type of gladiator) said to have fought in Asia; Cicero recalls escaping his cruelty only by his hometown's defences.

• Philippica XIV §8 Lucius Antonius, the marked hatred of all mankind

  Lucius Antonius, brother of Mark Antony and tribune of 44 BC, is singled out for the sack of Parma. Cicero pursues him relentlessly across the Philippics as the most hated of the brothers.

• Fifth Philippic §20 an Asiatic gladiator, who had fought as a murmillo at Mylasa

  Lucius Antonius, Antony's brother; Cicero repeatedly slanders him as having fought as a murmillo (a heavily-armed gladiator) at Mylasa in Asia. The charge is meant to brand him as savage and low-born in conduct.

• Sixth Philippic §10 this Asiatic murmillo

  Lucius Antonius, Antony's brother; Cicero recycles the slander that he fought as a murmillo (a Gaulish-armed gladiator) in Asia, here ranking him highest among Antony's disreputable hangers-on.

• Seventh Philippic §16 that law of his by which he shared the magistracy with Gaius Caesar

  Lucius Antonius, as tribune in 44 BC, carried an agrarian law that (Cicero alleges) abolished the proper votes of the tribes, the equestrian centuries, and others; Cicero says it made him their false "patron."

• Seventh Philippic §17 When he had armed his comrade and intimate friend in the Thracian's gear

  Cicero presses the gladiator slander against Lucius Antonius: as a murmillo in Asia he is said to have cut the throat of his own friend, who was equipped as the lighter-armed Thracian opponent.