M. Tullius C., born on 3 January 106 BC in Arpinum. The Tullii Cicerones maintained manifold relations with the Roman urban aristocracy. They enabled C. to prepare for a public career in close association with the most important speakers of his time, L. Licinius Crassus (cos. 95) and M. Antony (cos. 99), as well as the leading authorities in civil and sacred law, Mucius Scaevola Augur and Mucius Scaevola Pontifex. The Social Wars and the subsequent civil war turmoil ke…
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Bringmann, Klaus (Frankfurt/Main) and
Leonhardt, Jürgen (Marburg/Lahn),
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