(), called in some editions of Cicero Glaucon, the physician to the consul, C. Vibius Pansa, who upon his death,
after the battle of Mutina, April, B. C. 43, was thrown into prison
by Torquatus, Pansa's quaestor, upon a suspicion of having poisoned his wounds. (Sueton. Aug. 11; comp. Tac. Ann. 1.10.) This
accusation, however, seems to have been unfounded, as there is extant a letter from M. Brutus
to Cicero, in which he earnestly begs him to procure his liberation, and to protect him from
injury, as being a worthy man, who suffered as great a loss as any one by Pansa's death, and
who, even if this had not been the case, would neverhave allowed himself tobe persuaded to
commit such a crime. (Cic. ad Brut. 6.) He is perhaps the
same person who is quoted by Scribonius Largus. (De Compos. Medicam.
206.)