Thoranius

or Tora'nius.

1. A legate of Q. Metellus Pius in Spain, was defeated and slain by Sertorius about B. C. 77. He is called Thorius by Florus. (Pint. Sertor. 12 ; Flor. 3.22.6.)

2. One of the Pompeian party, who was in exile in B. C. 45, and to whom Cicero addressed two letters of consolation, which are extant (ed Fam. 6.20, 21, where the name is usually written Toranius or Torannius.)

3. C. Thoanius or Toranius, was the tutor or guardian of Octavianuts, and the colleague of his father in the aedileship, but was nevertheless proscribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43, at the request of his son, who was anxious to obtain possession of his property. His son soon dissipated the inheritance which he had acquired by parricide, was convicted of theft, and died in exile. (Appian, App. BC 4.12, 18; Suet. Octav. 27 ; Val. Max. ix. ll. § 5; Ores. 6.18.)

4. Thoranius, tribune of the plebs in B. C. 25, placed his father by his side in the seat assigned to the tribunes in the theatre, although his father was at the time a freedman. (D. C. 53.27.)

5. Thoranius, or Toranius, a celebrated mango or slave-dealer in the time of Antony and Augustus. He is called Toranius Flaccus by Macrobius. (Plin. Nat. 7.10. s. 12; Macr. 2.4; Suet. Octav. 69.)