Surely that would have been 'Caecilius est pater.'

Though of course that was almost instantly upstaged by the hilarious and Biggus Dickus-adjacent 'Grumio est coquus'.

Funnily enough, I was thinking after this of writing a more serious piece about our perceptions of what 'country' historical figures belong to, given that often they were born and lived in a completely different geopolitical construct (e.g. all Italians and Germans pre-mid-19th century).

We don't think of Seneca as Spanish. But he is often cited as a 'famous son' of Cordoba. Yet Boadicea/Boudicca is very much 'English', a national symbol.

And it turns out that Seneca was one of the financiers in Rome putting the screws on the Ancient Britons at the time of the Boudicca uprising, having forced them into taking on loans that were then called in.

Weird coincidence.