person
Zeuxis of Blaundus
Zeuxis
also: Zeuxis, Zeuxim, Blaundeno Zeuxide
A man of Blaundus in Asia whom Quintus Cicero wished to prosecute as a matricide; Cicero, finding him almost more distinguished than his own city, instead received him into friendship to defuse Greek complaints. The case is a flashpoint in Cicero's reproach of his brother's severity (Q.fr 1.2).
Reading notes
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.2 §4 the most certain of matricides
Roman law punished parricide (including matricide) with the cullus --- being sewn into a sack with animals and drowned. Quintus wanted to make an example of Zeuxis; Cicero, finding the man's standing high, preferred conciliation.