Ligur

The name Ligur or Ligus, without any nomen, occurs in Cicero, Cic. Att. 12.23, where he is ironically congratulated with respect to a daughter called Gamala. [C.P.M]

tribune of the plebs, B. C. 57, endeavoured by his veto to prevent the passing of the decree of the senate for Cicero's recall. He seems to have been an obscure individual, and, according to Cicero, had assumed a surname to which he had no right. (Cic. pro Sext. 31, 32, 43, pro Dome. 19, de Harusp. Resp. 3.) [C.P.M]

1. a Roman senator. During the praetorship of C. Sacerdos he had become possessed of an estate in Sicily by the will of one C. Sulpicius Olympus. When Verres became praetor, in accordance with one of his edicts the daughter of the patronus of Sulpicius sued Ligur for a sixth part of the estate. Ligur found himself compelled to come to Rome to assert and defend his rights. Verres afterwards demanded money from Ligur for trying the cause. M. Ligur and his brother are set down as tribunes of the plebs in the same year (B. C. 82) by Pighius (vol. iii. p. 266). (Cic. in Verr. 1.48, 2.7, 48.)

2. The brother of the preceding. During the absence of his brother he defended his interests against the unjust proceedings of Verres (B. C. 74). He is possibly the same who is mentioned by Cicero (Cic. Att. 7.18.4). [C.P.M]

a man mentioned once or twice by Tacitus. In Annal. 4.42, he is spoken of as the paramour of Aquilia (A. 25). Sone time after he escaped a prosecution by buying off the informers. (Annal. 6.30.) [C.P.M]