person
Vestricius Spurinna
Spurinna
also: Spurinna
Distinguished Roman haruspex (diviner of entrails) who famously warned Julius Caesar to beware the Ides of March (Suet. Iul. 81); in Fam. 9.24 Cicero invokes him humorously as a prophet of Paetus's social ruin if he stops attending dinner-parties.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 9.24 §2 Spurinna
Vestricius Spurinna was the distinguished haruspex (diviner of entrails) who famously warned Julius Caesar to beware the Ides of March; Cicero here invokes him with comic irony as a prophet of Paetus's social doom.