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Cursus honorum

These magistrates went through the cursus honorum: quaestorship, aedileship, praetorship, and consulship.

Ap. Claudius Pulcher Reviewed
Father of infamous Clodius (responsible for Cicero's exile) and Clodia (referenced in Cicero's Pro …
C. Julius Caesar Reviewed
Julius Caesar
L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (cos. 58) Reviewed
Consul in 58 BCE. Father-in-law of Caesar through Calpurnia
L. Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. 54) Reviewed
Consul in 54. Great-great grandfather of Emperor Nero
L. Licinius Lucullus Reviewed
Consul in 74 BCE. Defeated Mithridates
M. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (cos. 46) Reviewed
Second triumvirate with Octavius and Mark Anthony
M. Tullius Cicero Reviewed
Famous orator, lawyer and politician who became consul in 63 BCE
P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther (cos. 57) Reviewed
Consul in 57 BCE, when he helped recall Cicero from exile. At the start of Caesar's civil war, he s…