"Nigidius Figulus, Pythagoricus et magus, in exilio moritur."
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Cf. Apuleius, Apologia, 42: Itemque Fabium, cum quingentos denarium perdidisset, ad Nigidium consultum venisse; ab eo pueros carmine instinctos indicavisse, ubi locorum defossa esset crumina. ... See also Augustinus, De civitate Dei, 5, 3; Suetonius, Augustus, 94, 5; Cassius Dio, 45, 1, 3-5; Lucan, 1, 639ff
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Nigidius Figulus
Publius Nigidius Figulus (c. 98 – 45 BC) was a scholar of the Late and one of the for . His vast works survive only in fragments preserved by other authors.
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