[1] Cicero writes of him in a list of nine noteworthy blind men -- a list almost entirely copied by the 14th century poet Petrarch, but omitting Aufidius -- and celebrates him for the equanimity with which he bore blindness.
[4][5] We find from the theologian Jerome, that his patience was also recounted in the lost treatise de Consolatione.
[6] While blind and advanced in age, he maintained a very active lifestyle.
[8] Cicero writes that he also gave advice to his friends (nec amicis deliberantibus deerat); and, on account of this expression, he has been ranked by some legal biographers among the Roman jurists.
[10][11] Some scholars believe that this Gnaeus Aufidius is the tribune of the plebs who overturned the law banning importation of African wildlife into Rome, while others ascribe this to the Gnaeus Aufidius who was tribune in 170 BCE.