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    his youth, Marius was educated with Titus Pomponius Atticus and Marcus Tullius Cicero by Greek tutors. During the Social War, he served under Lucius Porcius...
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  • Classical Philology. 91: 185–198. doi:10.2307/311404. JSTOR 311404. Tullius Cicero, Marcus (1965). Shackleton Bailey, David Roy (ed.). Letters to Atticus:...
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  • Dictator, the sequels to Imperium, which chronicle the career of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Clodius is a main antagonist of the hero Decius Caecilius Metellus...
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    This is a list of consuls known to have held office, from the beginning of the Roman Republic to the latest use of the title in Imperial times, together...
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    Julius Caesar (category Correspondents of Cicero)
    48 BC. Pompey then fled for Egypt; Cato fled for Africa; others, like Cicero and Marcus Junius Brutus, begged for Caesar's pardon. Pompey was killed when...
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  • intervening 44-year reign of Servius Tullius. Later historians relied upon his work, though many did not find it satisfactory. Cicero considered his work jejune...
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    Sulla (category 1st-century BC Roman consuls)
    character in Taylor Caldwell's novel A Pillar Of Iron; in it, he has Marcus Tullius Cicero's injured brother, Quintus, recovering in his home, as Quintus is...
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    Pompey (category Correspondents of Cicero)
    had to be approved by the consuls, and he could only issue recommendations, which were not always followed. For example, Cicero rejected a request to help...
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    against the Pompeians L. Afranius and Marcus Petreius. June 7 – Cicero slips out of Italy and goes to Thessaloniki. July 30 – Caesar surrounds Afranius and...
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    Gaius Cassius Longinus (category Correspondents of Cicero)
    Scott-Kilvert, trans. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140444483. Cicero, Marcus Tullius (1986). Selected Letters. D. R. H. Shackleton Bailey, trans. London:...
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    Brothers – via Wikisource. Cicero (1852) [63 BC]. "First oration against L Catilina". The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Translated by Younge, CD....
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    "Postumius", pp. 915, 916. Polybius, Historiae (The Histories). Marcus Tullius Cicero, Academica Priora, Brutus, Cato Maior de Senectute, De Divinatione...
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    Augustus (category 1st-century BC Roman consuls)
    Caesarians in the senate, who feared a renewed civil war. In September, Marcus Tullius Cicero began to attack Antony in a series of speeches portraying him as...
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    Julius Caesar 103 BC Marcus Furius Bibaculus, Roman poet. 102 BC Quintus Tullius Cicero, Roman general and statesman (d. 43 BC) 101 BC July 13–Julius Caesar...
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    Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum (category 2nd-century BC Roman consuls)
    The City of God. Aurelius Victor, De Viris Illustribus Romae. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Brutus, De Oratore, Tusculanae Disputationes. Diodorus Siculus...
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    wall were rebuilt. In 54 BC, in his Orationes Pro Cn. Plancio, Marcus Tullius Cicero said: "You are from the most ancient municipium of Tusculum, from...
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    ISBN 978-0-674-99201-6. Marcus Tullius Cicero (1903). "Against Verres". In Yonge, C. D. (ed.). The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero. London: George Bell...
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    Deiotarus faced execution by Caesar's forces until the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero pleaded his case and secured his pardon from Caesar. Caesar subsequently...
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  • Iūniās Brundisī futūrus sit, minus urgendī fuerint M. Anneius et L. Tullius (Cicero) 'what you write about Pomptinus is correct: for the fact is that,...
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    CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). Marcus Porcius Cato, De Agri Culture (in Latin). Marcus Porcius Cato (1934), On Agriculture, Loeb Classical...
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    Pullo were two centurions in the garrison of Quintus Tullius Cicero, brother of Marcus Tullius Cicero, and are mentioned in Book 5.44 of De Bello Gallico...
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    wife of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 98 BC) AD 7 Athenodoros Cananites, Stoic philosopher (b. 74 BC) Aulus Licinius Nerva Silianus, Roman consul Glaphyra...
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    Compitalia itself was explained as an invention of Rome's sixth king, Servius Tullius, whose servile origins and favour towards plebeians and slaves had antagonised...
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    September 1. Another temple stood near the circus Flaminius, vowed by consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in 187 BC during the war against the Ligures and dedicated...
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    (Cicero's first wife), and full sister of Fabia the wife of Dolabella who later married her niece Tullia; she was probably mother of the later consul of...
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    Quintus Cicero, brother to Marcus Cicero – the famed orator and a key political player whom Caesar wished to keep as a loyal ally. They also told Cicero the...
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    67 Adams 2007: 626–9 Vincent (1990). Harrington et al. (1997). Marcus Tullius Cicero. Philippics. Speech 2, chapter 3. Archived from the original on...
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    he died at the age of 99. As a freedman, Cicero's slave Tiro became Marcus Tullius Tiro, adopting Cicero's family name. The use of a single male name...
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    Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License but not under the GFDL. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus 4.17.6. Tacitus, Annals 3.43 Suetonius, Nero...
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    Claudius (category 1st-century Roman consuls)
    general avoidance of the topic of the Republican era, he penned a defense of Cicero against the charges of Asinius Gallus. Modern historians have used this...
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