Cicero
Family: Roman · Role: politician · First appears: Julius Caesar 9
Cicero was a Roman politician. In the Julius Caesar account, he hinted to Axius that Julius Caesar had secured the arbitrary power he had sought as an aedile. Caesar later won Cicero’s support for a proposed measure, alongside Decius Silanus, and appealed to Cicero in a dispute that cost Quintus Curius his expected reward. Cicero was an enemy of Publius Clodius, whose adoption by a younger plebeian was used to secure Cicero’s banishment. He nevertheless praised Caesar’s eloquence, and Caesar wrote to him and his friends about domestic affairs.
In the Tiberius account, Publius Claudius is again connected with Cicero’s banishment, while Cicero’s correspondence included many letters to Caecilius Atticus and letters addressed to Atticus Satrius. In the Claudius account, Claudius composed a learned defence of Cicero against the books of Asinius Gallus. Cicero also treated Hirtius and Pansa as his disciples, teaching rhetoric in Greek until his praetorship and later in Latin; in their consulship, he called them his great and noble disciples.
Cicero charged Mark Antony in his Philippics over a large grant of land, making him an enemy. He also praised Publius Terentius Afer for presenting Menander in elegant Latin.
Relationship record
Life events
- Julius Caesar won Cicero and many senators to support his proposed measure.(Julius Caesar 14)
- With: Julius Caesar
- “having brought over to his side a great number of the senators, among whom was Cicero, the consul’s brother”
- Julius Caesar appealed to Cicero, causing Quintus Curius to lose his expected reward.(Julius Caesar 17)
- With: Julius Caesar Quintus Curius
- “Caesar, feeling that this treatment was not to be borne, appealed to Cicero himself, whether he had not voluntarily made a discovery to him of some particulars of the conspiracy; and so baulked Curius of his expected reward.”
- Publius Claudius secured Cicero's banishment by having himself adopted by a younger plebeian.(Tiberius 2)
- With: Publius Claudius
- “Publius Claudius, who, to effect the banishment of Cicero, procured himself to be adopted by a plebeian, and one younger than himself”
- Claudius composed a learned defence of Cicero against Asinius Gallus's books.(Claudius 41)
- With: Claudius Asinius Gallus
- “also, ‘A Defence of Cicero against the Books of Asinius Gallus,’ which exhibited a considerable degree of learning.”
- Cicero taught rhetoric to Hirtius and Pansa, whom he called his great and noble disciples.(Rhetoricians 1)