Matho
a pompous, blustering advocate, ridiculed by Juvenal and Martial. To see such a niun stretched out at full length in a new lectica for which he had probably not paid, excited the indignation of the satirist:--
" Nam quis iniquae Tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus, ut teneat se, Causidici nova quum veniat lectica Mathonis, Plena ipso ? "
(Juv. 1.30, &c., comp. 7.129, Matho deficit, which refers to his refusing to pay his debts, not to his being poor, as Ruperti interprets it; 11.34, where he is called bucca; Martial, 4.80, 7.10. 3, 4, 8.42, 10.46, 11.68.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.