person
Tigellius Hermogenes
Tigellius
also: Tigellio, Tigellius
A Sardinian singer and musician of Caesar's circle, grandson of Phamea; in Fam. 7.24 (45 BC) he is the 'pestilential' fellow estranged from Cicero, the 'pretty piper' grandson of Phamea. Famously satirized by Horace in Satires 1.2 and 1.3.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 13.49 §1 About Tigellius
Tigellius Hermogenes, a Sardinian singer of Caesar's circle and grandson of Phamea, here estranged from Cicero and a source of gossip about Caesar's plans. Later satirized by Horace.
- Ad Atticum 13.51 §2 The whole of Tigellius
Cicero wants Atticus's complete report on the Tigellius affair (see 13.49-13.50); the Sardinian singer of Caesar's circle, estranged from him, remains a source of anxiety and gossip.
- Ad Familiares 7.24 §1 Tigellius
A Sardinian singer in Caesar's circle, grandson of Phamea, who had fallen out with Cicero; later a stock figure of caprice in Horace's Satires. Cicero calls him 'more pestilential than his own country' (a swipe at Sardinia's bad reputation).