Quintus Lucilius Balbus

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Quintus Lucilius Balbus was a Stoic philosopher, and a pupil of Panaetius, who lived c. 100 BC.

He appeared to Cicero comparable to the best Greek philosophers.[1] He is introduced by Cicero in his dialogue On the Nature of the Gods as the expositor of the opinions of the Stoics on that subject, and his arguments are represented as of considerable weight.[2] He was also the exponent of the Stoic opinions in Cicero's Hortensius.

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  1. ^ Cicero, De Natura Deorum, i. 6.
  2. ^ Cicero, De Natura Deorum, iii. 40, De Divinatione, i. 5.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).

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