Grice e Vigellio

The first Stoic philosopher in Rome was the famous Panaetius of Rhodes, who arrived around 144, joined what became known as the Scipionic Circle, 6 lived for a while in Scipio's home and traveled with him for more than a year on a public embassy to the East. Besides Scipio (consul in 147 and 134, censor in 142), at least six second-century consuls studied under Panaetius. They included Laelius (consul in 140) and L. Furius (consul in 136)—both of whom, along with Scipio (and Polybius), had heard the three Greek philosophers in Rome in 155-C. Fannius (consul in 122), Q. Aelius Tubero (suffect consul in 118), Q. Mucius Scaevola (consul in 117) and Rutilius Rufus (consul in 105).8 In addition, Spurius Mummius, one of the legates sent to settle Greek affairs in 146, was trained in Stoic doctrine (Cicero, Brutus, 94); Marcus Vigellius, friend of L. Crassius (consul in 95), was Panactius' friend and pupil, and lived with him (Cicero, De oratore, 3.78); and Sextus Pom-peius, son of the governor of Macedonia (c. 108), brother of a consul in 89, and uncle of Pompey the Great, withdrew from politics in order to devote himself to Stoic philosophy (Cicero, Brutus, 175, De oratore, 3.78).