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Cicero, Brutus, 160

defendit postea Liciniam virginem, cum annos xxvii natus esset. In ea ipsa causa fuit eloquentissimus orationisque eius scriptas quasdam partis reliquit. Voluit adulescens in colonia Narbonensi causae popularis aliquid adtingere eamque coloniam, ut fecit, ipse deducere; exstat in eam legem senior, ut ita dicam, quam aetas illa ferebat oratio. Multae deinde causae; sed ita tacitus tribunatus ut, nisi in eo magistratu cenavisset apud praeconem Granium idque nobis bis bis om. O, secl. Lambinus narravisset Lucilius, tribunum plebis nesciremus fuisse. He afterwards defended the [Vestal virgin Licinia, when he was only twenty-seven years of age; on which occasion he discovered an uncommon share of eloquence, as is evident from those parts of his oration which he left behind him in writing. As he was then desirous to have the honour of settling the colony of Narbo (as he afterwards did) he thought it advisable to recommend himself, by undertaking the management of some popular cause. His oration, in support of the act which was proposed for that purpose, is still extant; and reveals a greater maturity of genius than might have been expected at that time of life. He afterwards pleaded many other causes: but his tribunate was such a remarkably silent one, that if he had not supped with Granius the beadle when he enjoyed that office (a circumstance which has been twice mentioned by Lucilius) we should scarcely have known that a tribune of that name had existed.

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1. Cicero, Brutus, 160 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 160. defendit postea Liciniam virginem, cum annos xxvii natus esset. In ea ipsa causa fuit eloquentissimus orationisque eius scriptas quasdam partis reliquit. Voluit adulescens in colonia Narbonensi causae popularis aliquid adtingere eamque coloniam, ut fecit, ipse deducere; exstat in eam legem senior, ut ita dicam, quam aetas illa ferebat oratio. Multae deinde causae; sed ita tacitus tribunatus ut, nisi in eo magistratu cenavisset apud praeconem Granium idque nobis bis bis om. O, secl. Lambinus narravisset Lucilius, tribunum plebis nesciremus fuisse.

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subject	book bibliographic info
antonius, m. (cos. 99 bce)	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202
atticus, t. pomponius	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202
brutus, m. (pr. 44 bce)	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202
citation, evidentiary value of	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202
crassus, l. licinius (cos. 95 bce)	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202
genres of latin poetry, satire	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202
granius (herald)	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202
humour'	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202
lucilius	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202
lucilius satires	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202
mummius, l. (cos. 146 bce)	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202
mummius, sp. (writer of epistolary verse)	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202
papirius paetus, l.	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202
scipio africanus	Culík-Baird, Cicero and the Early Latin Poets (2022) 202