Cicero (Encyclopedia of the Ancient World)
Life
Sons of a wealthy landowner from Arpinum, Cicero (SIH-suh-roh) and his brother, Quintus Tullius Cicero, were educated to become Roman senators. A junior officer in the Social War (91-87 b.c.e.), Cicero served with young men such as Catiline and Pompey the Great under Pompey’s father and Lucius Cornelius Sulla from 90 to 89 b.c.e. Avoiding civil wars between Sulla and Gaius Marius, he studied law and oratory and married the wealthy, well-born Terentia.
Cicero approved of conservative reforms under the dictatorship of Sulla, but not his excesses. In two early...
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