Granius Petronius

, an officer who, being taken by Pompey’s generals, refused the life which was tendered to him; observing that Cæsar’s soldiers received not, but granted, life. He killed himself. Plutarch , Cæsar .――A questor whom Sylla had ordered to be strangled, only one day before he died a natural death. Plutarch. ――A son of the wife of Marius, by a former husband.――Quintus, a man intimate with Cra us and other illustrious men of Rome, whose vices he lashed with an unsparing hand. Cicero , Brutus , chs. 43 & 46; On Oratory , bk. 2 , ch. 60 .