person
Quintus Lucilius Balbus
Lucilius Balbus
also: Lucilius, Lucilio, Balbus
Roman Stoic and friend of Cicero who delivers the Stoic defence of religion in the second book of De Natura Deorum. Quintus recalls in De Divinatione 1.9 that Balbus's exposition was judged the more inclined toward the truth.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §1.15 Quintus Lucilius Balbus
The Stoic spokesman of the dialogue, said to rival the leading Greek Stoics. He sets out the Stoic theology in book 2 and is the 'Lucilius' Velleius addresses here.
Mentioned in 2 works (44 mentions)
On the Nature of the Gods
- §1.15 Quintus Lucilius Balbus
- §1.16 Balbus
- §1.20 Lucilius
- §1.22 Balbus
- §1.25 Lucilius
- §1.36 Balbus
- §1.47 Lucilius
- §1.50 Balbus
- §2.1 Lucilius
- §2.2 Balbus
- §2.3 Balbus
- §2.4 Lucilius
- §3.1 Balbus
- §3.13 Lucilius
- §3.13 Balbus
- §3.15 Balbus
- §3.17 Balbus
- §3.19 Balbus
- §3.2 Balbus
- §3.21 Balbus
- §3.24 Balbus
- §3.27 Balbus
- §3.3 Lucilius
- §3.35 Balbus
- §3.4 Balbus
- §3.43 Balbus
- §3.46 Balbus
- §3.5 Balbus
- §3.51 Balbus
- §3.53 Balbus
- §3.6 Balbus
- §3.65 Balbus
- §3.7 Balbus
- §3.93 Balbus
- §3.94 Lucilius
- §3.95 Balbus