Dio 47.7.4

Roman History 47.7.4

Author
Cassius Dio
Translator
Earnest Cary

Roman History

47.7.4

Cassius Dio

translated by Earnest Cary

4witness the case of Tanusia, a woman of note. She at first concealed her husband Titus Vinius, one of the proscribed, in a chest at the house of a freedman named Philopoemen and so made it appear that he had been killed. Later she waited for a popular festival, which a relative of hers was to direct, and through the influence of Caesar’s sister Octavia brought it about that Caesar alone of the triumvirs entered the theatre.