person
Titus Torquatus
T. Torquatus
also: T. Torquatus, Titus Torquatus, Torquatus, T. Torquatus T. F.
A man learned in the Rhodian discipline of Molon and naturally fluent, who had more capacity for speaking than inclination; he would have been made consul, says Cicero in the Brutus, had life lasted and bribery been abolished.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §1.24 T. Torquatus, consul with Cn. Octavius
T. Manlius Torquatus, consul 165 BC, who sat in judgment on his own adopted-out son D. Junius Silanus when the Macedonians accused him of extortion, and condemned him. Another Torquatus exemplum of duty over paternal feeling.