Herennius

At the beginning of the new session, a tribune by the name of Herennius introduced a bill on the floor of the Senate proposing that the Roman people should meet on the Field of Mars and vote on whether or not Clodius should be permitted to become a pleb.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

They do not seem to have had any discernible impact until the mid-14th century, when Augustine's “cogito” appears as one of several arguments against Scepticism in a pamphlet by Nicholas Kabasilas Chamaetos; it reappears in a similar work of unknown date, transmitted as chapter 3 of a miscellany attributed in the (late) manuscripts to one Herennius.

Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

Then why in your own prison records does it state that Herennius was released?

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

What Verres did not realize was that Herennius was not from Spain at all.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

Cicero got straight down to business and called as his first witness Annius, who described how he had been inspecting a cargo down at the harbor in Syracuse one morning when a friend had come running to tell him that their business associate, Herennius, was in chains in the forum and pleading for his life.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

He had stayed in Puteoli and tracked down two more witnesses: the Roman knight, Gaius Numitorius, who had witnessed the crucifixion of Gavius in Messana; and a friend of his, a merchant named Marcus Annius, who had been in Syracuse when the Roman banker Herennius had been judicially murdered.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

If Gavius and Herennius had discovered his treachery, that would explain why Verres had been so eager to kill them quickly.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

The Romans, on the other hand, were officially described as “released”—including the two men from Spain, Publius Gavius and Lucius Herennius, whose executions had been described to us.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

And what payment could ever recompense the families and friends of Gavius and Herennius and the other innocents he had murdered?

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

But by the time Verres discovered his mistake, Herennius could not be allowed to go free, because he knew too much about what the governor was up to.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006