Titus Annius Milo

48 BC

Compsa

Stone to the head

Roman

Statesman

Gang violence

Cursus honorum up to praetor (including tribune of the plebs)

Optimates

Fausta Cornelia

Exile[edit]

Milo left Rome and went into exile at Massilia (today Marseille). His property was sold by auction. During his absence, Milo was prosecuted and convicted for bribery, unlawful association and violence.


Cassius Dio states that when Cicero had finished writing up his speech, he sent a copy to Milo in exile. Milo wrote back that it was lucky for him that the same speech had not been made in court because otherwise, he would "not now be enjoying the delicious red mullet of Massilia".[5]

Death[edit]

In 48 BC, Milo joined Marcus Caelius Rufus in the rebellion against Caesar, but he died at that year's siege of Compsa, near Thurii, in Lucania.[6] He was killed by a stone thrown from the city walls.

In popular culture[edit]

Titus Annius Milo appears as a recurring character in John Maddox Roberts' SPQR series of novels. These historical mysteries are presented as memoirs of the fictional Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger; Milo is a trusted friend of Metellus.


Milo also appears as a character in A Murder on the Appian Way, Last Seen in Massilia and A Mist of Prophecies, in the Roma Sub Rosa series of historical mystery novels by Steven Saylor. Saylor’s fictional hero dislikes Milo.


Milo appears in Conn Iggulden's book The Field of Swords, the third in the series Emperor, as a street gangster who wages a private war with Publius Clodius.


Milo is a character in Colleen McCollough's novel Caesar.


He also appears in the book Street Fighter: Son of Spartacus in a plot to assassinate Julius Caesar.


Milo features prominently in the 2015 novel Dictator by British novelist Robert Harris.

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"The Trial of Milo in 52 B.C.: A Chronological Study"

W.J. Tatum, The Patrician Tribune. Publius Clodius Pulcher, Chapel Hill 1999.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Milo, Titus Annius". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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