Marcus Tullius Cicero edit

Famous orator, lawyer and politician who became consul in 63 BCE

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Career

1. 75 BCE
   Quaestor edit

   Served under Sex. Peducaeus in western Sicily

2. 69 BCE
   Aedile ·plebis edit

   Note 5 (MRR2): Mommsen and Seidel (FA) supposed that Cicero and his colleague Caesonius were Curule Aediles. The games however that Cicero gave were dedicated to Ceres, Liber and Libera, and to Flora (Verr. 2.5.36-37). He never refers to himself as Curule Aedile, or records giving the Megalesian games. The primi Romani ludi of Verr. 2.5.36-37 were probably not the Ludi Romani but the Ludi Plebeii. On the whole question, see L. R. Taylor, AJPh 60 (1939) 200, note 25.

3. 66 BCE
   Praetor ·Quaestio de repetundis edit

   Elected at the head of the poll (a). Presided at the trial of Licinius Macer (b), and ordered, but probably did not hold, that of Manilius, whose law to give Pompey the command against Mithridates he supported (see Tribunes of the Plebs).

4. 63 BCE
   Consul edit

   Full references to the actions of Cicero in his consulship are in D.-G. 5.449ff.; and the article by Gelzer in RE 7A.865ff

Family