Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus

Reading notes

• Ad Atticum 12.14 §4 when Pansa is to set out

  C. Vibius Pansa, a Caesarian and future consul of 43 BC, was about to leave Rome (probably for a provincial command); Cicero wants the date so he can time his own movements. Pansa's departure is a recurring travel marker in these letters.

• Ad Atticum 15.1 §3 to meet Pansa

  C. Vibius Pansa, consul-designate for 43 BC alongside Hirtius; another moderate Caesarian whom Cicero counted among those who might steer toward peace.

• Ad Atticum 15.12 §2 Pansa and Hirtius

  Gaius Vibius Pansa and Aulus Hirtius, the consuls-designate for 43 BC and former Caesarian officers; Octavian was reportedly keeping them at arm's length, a stance Cicero notes warily as he gauges the young man's alignments.

• Ad Atticum 15.22 §1 That Pansa speaks well, I believe

  Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus, consul-designate for 43 BC; Cicero suspects his fine words mask uncertainty, asking pointedly which side Pansa will take if war comes.

• Ad Atticum 15.23 §1 If Pansa replies to your letter

  Gaius Vibius Pansa, consul-designate for 43 BC; Cicero awaits the outcome of Atticus's correspondence with him as a barometer of the political situation before fixing his own movements.

• Ad Atticum 16.1 §4 is our hope in Pansa

  C. Vibius Pansa, a moderate Caesarian and consul-designate for 43 BC; Cicero wonders whether the political situation will improve once Pansa takes office on 1 January.

• Ad Atticum 16.9 §1 I want nothing done without your Pansa

  C. Vibius Pansa, consul-designate for 43 BC and a moderate Caesarian whom Atticus knew well; Cicero wanted no move made without his involvement.

• Ad M. Brutum 1.7 §1 stand for Pansa's place

  When a consul died in office, the surviving consul held elections (comitia) to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the year; Bibulus wished to be elected suffect consul to replace Pansa, who died of wounds sustained at Forum Gallorum.

• Ad M. Brutum 1.10 §1 a consul to whom from the start spirit was not lacking, nor at the end fidelity

  Pansa (cos. 43) was wounded at the battle of Forum Gallorum (April 43 BC) and died shortly after; Cicero's phrase is a carefully worded epitaph for a man whose political courage he here endorses.

• Ad M. Brutum 2.4 §2 with Pansa opposing and angry, delivered the motion that Cassius should pursue Dolabella by war

  Consul Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus, though constitutionally Cicero's superior, blocked or resisted this proposal; Cicero pushed the motion through the Senate despite consular opposition, an act of considerable political boldness.

• Ad Familiares 6.12 §2 Pansa, Hirtius, Balbus, Oppius, Matius, Postumius

  Caesar's inner circle of political managers: C. Vibius Pansa and A. Hirtius (future consuls 43 BC), L. Cornelius Balbus (Caesar's secretary and confidant), C. Oppius and C. Matius (agents and literary friends); Postumius here is uncertain, likely a less prominent Caesarian official.

• Ad Familiares 12.5 §2 Pansa had levied great forces from the muster of Italy

  The consul C. Vibius Pansa was raising fresh troops at Rome through the dilectus (the levy or muster) across Italy, to reinforce the campaign against Antony.

• Ad Familiares 12.7 §1 had not Pansa fiercely stood against it

  C. Vibius Pansa, one of the two consuls of 43 BC; as presiding magistrate he could block Cicero's motion in the Senate. He died of wounds soon after the battles around Mutina.

• Ad Familiares 12.30 §6 while you did not know that Pansa was dead

  Cornificius had written asking Cicero to obtain money for him through the consul Pansa, not yet knowing Pansa had died of his Mutina wound; the request was now void.

• Ad Familiares 15.17 §3 Our friend Pansa set out in his general's cloak

  C. Vibius Pansa, a Caesarian (later consul 43 BC), put on the paludatum (the commander's red cloak donned on leaving the city for a province) on 30 December 46 BC; the gesture is Cicero's proof that virtue is choiceworthy for its own sake.

• Ad Familiares 15.19 §2 left the city in his general's cloak

  The paludatus, the scarlet military cloak a magistrate donned on leaving Rome to take up a provincial command; Pansa was setting out to govern Cisalpine Gaul in 45 BC.

• Seventh Philippic §5 Gaius Pansa, that most resolute and excellent consul

  C. Vibius Pansa, consul of 43 BC with Hirtius; a personal friend of Cicero. He and Hirtius led the relief of Mutina, where both were killed in April 43 BC.