person
Tigranes II of Armenia
Tigranes
also: Tigranes the Great
King of Armenia, defeated by Pompey in the 60s BC and reduced to a Roman client. Clodius's eastern legation of 59 BC was nominally a mission to greet him, which Cicero repeatedly mocks.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.4 §2 is going to Tigranes
Tigranes II, king of Armenia, defeated by Pompey and reduced to a client kingdom. Clodius was reportedly to be sent east on an embassy to him; Cicero mocks the mission throughout.
- Ad Atticum 2.7 §2 that you might go to greet Tigranes
Clodius's eastern legation was nominally to Tigranes II of Armenia, Pompey's client king. Cicero's sneer --- that no patrician needed to turn plebeian merely to be received by a foreign king --- mocks the pretext for Clodius's transfer to the plebs.