person
Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus
Piso
Consul of 58 BC and Caesar's father-in-law; as governor of Macedonia he kept a stingy staff, the 'empty cohort' of poem 28.
Reading notes
- Carmina §28 Piso
Lucius Calpurnius Piso, consul of 58 BC and Caesar's father-in-law; the governor whose stingy staff is the 'empty cohort.'
- Carmina §47 Piso
The patron whose two parasites feast while Catullus's own friends go hungry; probably L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus.