Nigidius Figulus

Publius Nigidius Figulus (c. 98 – 45 BC) was a scholar of the Late Roman Republic and one of the praetors for 58 BC. His vast works survive only in fragments preserved by other authors. Quotes thumb|Pythagoricus et magus.A Pythagorean and a mage. Religentem esse oportet, religiosus ne fuas. One must be religious, in order not to become superstitious. Verse copied by Nigidius Figulus from ancient poetry (ex antiquo carmine), as quoted by Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, IV, 9, 1–2 (Tr. FitzHugh) About Nigidius Figulus, Pythagoricus et magus, in exilio moritur. Nigidius Figulus, a Pythagorean and a magician, dies in exile. Jerome, Chronicon, 1972 = 45 BC (Tr. Pearse et al.) Cf. Apuleius, Apologia, 42: Itemque Fabium, cum quingentos denarium perdidisset, ad Nigidium consultum venisse; ab eo pueros carmine instinctos indicavisse, ubi locorum defossa esset crumina. ... See also Augustinus, De civitate Dei, 5, 3; Suetonius, Augustus, 94, 5; Cassius Dio, 45, 1, 3-5; Lucan, 1, 639ff Sed abiit in sodalicium sacrilegi Nigidiani. He became an associate in the sacrilege of Nigidius. Cicero, Invective against Sallust, 5, 14 (Tr. John C. Rolfe) See: Federico Santangelo, "Whose Sacrilege? A Note on Sal. 5.14", The Classical World, vol. 104, no. 3 (2011), pp. 333–38 External links Thomas FitzHugh, "The Origin of Verse", Bulletin of the School of Latin, no. 8 (University of Virginia, 1 January 1915), p. 11 Roger Pearse et al., "The Chronicle of St. Jerome", The Tertullian Project (2005) Antonius Swoboda, P. Nigidii Figuli Operum Reliquiae (Tempsky, 1889), p. 67 Category:Authors from Rome