Hirtius
- name of a Roman gens.; in partic., A. Hirtius, consul A. U. C. 711, and author of the eighth book of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic war: he fell before Mutina, Cic. Att. 7, 4, 2; Q. Cic. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 27, 1.—Hirtīnus, a, um, of Hirtius: proelium, the battle in which Hirtius met his death, Asin. Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4.
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…probabile videretur, id in hac disputatione de fato casus quidam ne facerem inpedivit. Nam cum essem in Puteolano Hirtiusque noster, consul designatus, isdem in locis, vir nobis amicissimus et his studiis, in quibus nos a…
M. Tullius Cicero, De Fato
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…uterque cum firmo exercitu, magnasque Romae Pansa copias ex dilectu Italiae compararat. hiems adhuc rem geri prohibuerat. Hirtius nihil nisi considerate, ut mihi crebris litteris significat, acturus videbatur. praeter Bononiam, Regium Lepidi, Parmam…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares
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…. Iun. a. . CICERO ATTICO SAL. post tuum discessum binas a Balbo nihil novi itemque ab Hirtio, qui se scribit vehementer offensum esse veteranis. exspectat animus quidnam agam de K. Mart. . misi…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…sententiaeque de summa re publica libere dici possint, de ea re ita censeo uti C. Pansa A. Hirtius, consules designati, dent operam uti senatus Kalendis Ianuariis tuto haberi possit. quodque edictum D. Bruti ,…
Cicero, Philippicae
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…scripseram ad te, quia cognoram ex tuis litteris. eum σύνναον Quirini malo quam Salutis. tu vero pervulga Hirtium. id enim ipsum putaram quod scribis, ut cum ingenium amici nostri probaretur, ὑπόθεσις vituperandi Catonis inrideretur .…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…gratulor nobis Quintum filium exisse. molestus non erit. Pansam bene loqui credo. semper enim coniunctum esse cum Hirtio scio ; amicissimum Bruto et Cassio puto, si expediet sed quando illos videbit, inimicum Antonio, quando aut…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…de singulis sententiis breviter disputo, velim, patres conscripti, ut adhuc fecistis, me attente audiatis. Antonius Hirtio et Caesari. neque se imperatorem neque Hirtium consulem nec pro praetore Caesarem. satis hoc quidem scite deponere alienum…
Cicero, Philippicae
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…Iun. vesperi a. . CICERO ATTICO SAL. cum ad me Brutus noster scripsisset et Cassius, ut Hirtium, qui adhuc bonus fuisset sciebam, neque eum confidebam fore mea auctoritate meliorem ; Antonio est enim fortasse iratior…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…videtur ; sin tibi quid venit in mentem, scribe, quaeso. Cassius vero vehementer orat ac petit ut Hirtium quam optimum faciam. sanum putas ὁ θησαυρὸς ἄνθρακες. epistulam tibi misi. ut tu de provincia Bruti et…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…C. Pansam consules putatis quin ad Antonium transeant, Brutum obsideant, Mutinam expugnare cupiant quid de Pansa et Hirtio loquor Caesar, singulari pietate adulescens, poteritne se tenere quin D. Bruti sanguine poenas patrias persequatur itaque fecerunt…
Cicero, Philippicae
A friend of Caesar, and one of his companions in arms as in politics. In B.C. 58 he was Caesar's legate in Gaul, was praetor in 46, and consul in 43, when, acting for Octavian, he defeated Antony at Mutina. He completed Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico by adding an eighth book ( Iul. 56). According to the dedication to Cornelius Balbus prefixed to that book, he contemplated the continuation of Caesar's account of the Civil War to Caesar's death. This intention he never carried out, as he fell in battle at Mutina, April 27, B.C. 43, when he was consul. Of the three works, the Bellum Alexandrinum, Bellum Africanum, and Bellum Hispaniense, which have come down to us with Caesar's commentaries, the first may have been written by him. Of the other two, it has been conjectured that they were composed at his request, in preparation for his intended work on military commanders, and that having been found at his death among his papers, they were added, with his own writings, to the works of Caesar himself. A short letter of Hirtius to Cicero is found in Ad Att. xv. 6. He is known to have written, at Caesar's instigation, an answer to Cicero's panegyric on Cato ( Ad Att. xii. 40. 1, 41. 4, 44. 1, 45. 3, 47. 3). See Caesar.