person
Teucer
also: Teucrum
Greek archer-hero of the Trojan War, half-brother of Ajax. A frenzied woman (in a tragic quotation) is described calling upon her own Teucer among the tombs (De Divinatione 1.80).
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §5.108 the saying of Teucer can be adapted to every situation: \textit{My country is wherever it goes well with me.}
Teucer, the Homeric archer exiled by his father Telamon; the line (from a Latin tragedy, perhaps Pacuvius's Teucer) makes one's homeland wherever one prospers. It supports the cosmopolitan view that exile is no true evil.