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

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