1. Cicero’s colleague in the praetorship (66 B.C.).
2. Earliest and fundamental Roman code of laws, ascribed to 451–450 B.C. The Plaetorian Law (c. 193–192 B.C.) first made a settled distinction between majors and minors (under 25 years of age).
1. Consul 95 B.C., and chief priest; Cicero, who had been his pupil, described him as ‘the greatest orator among the lawyers, the greatest lawyer among the orators’.
2. Quotation from Ennius’s lost tragedy the Medea.
3. Praetor 123 B.C., jurist, nephew of Scipio Aemilianus, and friend of Panaetius.
1. Praetor 86 B.C. (?), murdered by Sulla. His aunt or great-aunt married Cicero’s grandfather (see Genealogical Table, p. 253).