person
Lucius Decidius Saxa
Saxa
also: Saxa, Saxae, Decidius Saxa
A Spanish-born partisan of Caesar and then of Antony, a centurion turned land-commissioner whom Cicero scorns as a foreigner unfit for Roman office. He is paired with Cafo in the Philippics.
Reading notes
- Philippica XIV §10 his practised surveyor, the cunning Saxa
L. Decidius Saxa, a Spanish-born officer of Caesar and then Antony, served as a land-surveyor parcelling out confiscated estates; Cicero scorns him as a foreigner with a ten-foot measuring rod (decempeda) ready to divide Rome itself.