person
Calpurnius Piso
the Pisones
also: Pisones
The Calpurnii Pisones, a great patrician house; Pliny cites them as the family marked out by frugality, as the Laelii by wisdom and the Metelli by devotion.
Reading notes
- Panegyric to Trajan §88 the Pisones
The Calpurnii Pisones, a patrician house proverbial for frugality; one of three families Pliny names whose surname itself signified a virtue.