person
Favonium
also: Favonius
M. Favonius, praetor 49 BC, an austere Stoic and self-styled imitator of M. Cato Uticensis, sharp-tongued in the senate and constant supporter of the optimate cause. He attended Brutus at Antium after the Ides (Ad Att. 15.11) and was put to death by Antony after Philippi (42 BC). One of Cicero's regular correspondents (Ad Q. fr. 2.9; Phil. 13.39).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.1 §9 Favonius carried my tribe more honourably than his own
M. Favonius, the austere Cato-imitator, had been prosecuted for electoral bribery (ambitus); acquitted, he won the votes of Cicero's tribe though he lost the support of Lucceius.
- Ad Atticum 15.11 §1 Favonius
Marcus Favonius, a senator famed for his blunt Stoic devotion to Cato; an ally of the Republican cause who would later die after Philippi.